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Sherman College WCCS Offers Well Adjusted Bracelets For Sale

Are You Well Adjusted?  Are your patients?

A great promotional idea for your chiropractic practice is to use the Well Adjusted bracelets our World Congress of Chiropractic Students delegates are selling to raise funds for their trip to congress (in Mexico) in August. The bracelets are in attractive colors and available for as little as $1 each when ordered in quantity.

The patients at the Sherman College Chiropractic Health Center love them. Interns have been purchasing them from WCCS and using them as give-aways or as thank you gifts to patients. Sherman faculty and staff love them also. I have 2 colors and wear mine often. It sometimes gets noticed by friends and colleagues off campus and that gives me an opportunity to talk about chiropractic and promote our health center and our practicing alumni locally.

If nothing else, order a few bracelets for you and your family members and see how valuable they are as a practice marketing tool. Then imagine all your patients sporting one and sharing the chiropractic message with their family and friends. Get ordering details here.

The World Congress of Chiropractic Students (WCCS) is an international forum representing the chiropractic profession. Active membership consists of students from 33 chiropractic colleges from 5 continents. The WCCS has been around since 1979.

Want to know who’s representing Sherman? Meet our delegates here.

Sherman College 5K Returns to Lyceum Schedule

There will be a 5K walk/run on Saturday morning, May 24, as part of the Lyceum lineup of events. It has been several years since a race has been held at Lyceum. We give thanks this year to the World Congress of Chiropractic Students (WCCS) group for organizing, promoting, and getting financial support from local businesses for this event.
You can read more about it here.

See what programs are scheduled for Continuing Education credit at Lyceum here.

Haven’t seen the new scenery outside at Sherman yet? Visit our Pardon our Progress blog to see the construction of a beautiful new plaza for students and employees to enjoy.

Sherman Career Day May 24

Dr. George Auger (1993) of Greenville (on the right in the photo with his cousin Joe Donofrio) was on campus this week to give an assembly to students. He visited with us and introduced us to a prospective student from his practice. Eric is working on his prerequisites and will be coming back to Sherman during Lyceum to attend Career Day events on Saturday, May 24. If you have a patient interested in chiropractic as a career, why not turn them on to Career Day? 

Read more about Career Day here.

Here's a picture of Eric talking with Sherman President Jon Schwartzbauer, D.C. at the assembly just before it started.

http://sherman.edu/edu/lyceum/2008/career_day.html

April Fools Dr. Joe

Before the month of April ends I need to share this story with you. Dr. Joe Donofrio's (Dean of Clinical Science) office is right across the hall from mine.

His students cleverly engineered the joke after hours on April 1 to catch Dr. Joe off guard the following morning. Who would suspect an April Fools Day prank on April 2?  Here is what Dr. Joe Donofrio found when he opened his office door at Sherman College that morning.

Look Who Stopped In

Alumnus Dave Batton from Royal Oak, MI, stopped by campus while in town this week. Dr. Batton visited with faculty and former classmates like Philosophy Department chair Bill Decken pictured here (left) with Dr. Batton.

All alumni are welcome to stop in when you're in town or passing through. We love to see you and hear about your activities. And if you haven't been here in a while, we love to show you the changes on campus.

Hope to see you soon!

PA Reunion was Fun

The ADIO/PCSC Reunion was last night. I'll upload some photos as soon as I can and let you glimpse at the action. The highlight for me was listening to everyone introduce themselves and tell how they are connected to Penn Straight. The pioneer class alumni also shared memories from the college's early days. Sherman College is proud of these trailblazers and priviledged to hold their academic records after their alma mater closed. I feel honored to have been a part of their reunion and look forward to seeing them on campus for Lyceum next month.

Philadelphia Area Alumni Events

I'm in the area north of Phillie this week for 2 alumni events--a reunion party in Fort Washington for ADIO Institute / Penn Straight alumni, administrators, faculty and staff on Saturday, April 5 and a reception for Sherman alumni and friends in Harleysville on Tuesday, April 9. In between the two events I'll be visiting at alumni practices.

I arrived tonight and met FSCO representative Renee Hillman for dinner and a high school musical. We went to Freedom High School to see Bye, Bye Birdie, a really fun performance. I was impressed with the talent of these young people, some of whom may one day come to Sherman College to study chiropractic (and entertain us on campus at a future Spizz Day). I was especially impressed with Amanda Kostalis as Rose. She had a great voice. I also liked Cameron Benda who played Harvey Johnson with a great deal of enthusiasm and expression.  It was fun a fun way to start my visit to Pennsylvania. Tomorrow night is the Penn Straight Reunion so I'll be heading down to Fort Washington in the early afternoon. I'm eager to see Sandy Levenson and Judy Campanale who planned the event and catch up with them as we set up the banquet room with displays and favors. Dave Smith will be joining us to set up his sound equipment. In addition to practicing chiropractic he's quite the DJ.

Of course our president Jon Schwartzbauer will be attending as well as several Sherman alumni who served as faculty, administrators or board members. It will be great to see old friends and meet some new ones.

Refer a Student to Sherman Online

Do you know someone who would make an excellent chiropractor? Or someone who has shown an interest in chiropractic as a career? Please let us know who they are and how to contact them using our quick and easy online form. Give us the person’s name, address, phone and email address. Our admission team would be happy to contact them and discuss their future educational and career plans.

Good Morning America Segment on Chiropractic

The Good Morning America Segment on chropractic is creating quite the buzz. Have you seen it? I like it because it casts a positive light on the profession. Watch it here. The segment is about a study by the University of Chicago that looked at the possible connection between a spinal adjustment and a decrease in blood pressure. The double blind study showed a significant drop (an average of 17 points) in blood pressure for patients with hypertension after a specific chiropractic adjustment of C1. It was especially satisfying to hear the Good Morning America medical editor comment that the research was intriguing and worthy of further study. “…I'm telling you, this catches our attention because of a significant drop in blood pressure. It absolutely deserves more study," Dr. Tim Johnson said.
Alumni watching the segment will no doubt recognize that the specific chiropractic adjustment referred to on the program is a part of the education learned here at Sherman College.  Go Sherman!

Wow! See Our Improvements Come to Life

Wow! Look at the new blog about our contruction project and watch it unfold. I'm talking about the Gordon and Helen Brown Student Plaza. I just came from that blog where I watched an animated video of what it will look like finished. It's really going to be nice with gardens, benches, a fountain, wireless internet access, the whole nine yards!

Here's a link to the blog where you can watch that video and then check back to see more postings and watch the new plaza being built. http://sherman.blogs.com/progress/