My Holiday Mail For Heroes!

Hello everyone!

In my last post, I mentioned that I would be teaming up on the Holiday Mail for Heroes with Berkeley College, and I stuck to my word! I have to announce that from the generous support of my friends, family, and co-workers, I was able to collect 104 Holiday cards to send to the troops this holiday season! As soon as I found out about this project, I knew a lot of my friends & family would be more than happy to help out.

We all either know someone or have a family member currently serving our country. Many of these individuals don't get to come home for the holidays, which is why it's so important to make them feel special and honored during the holiday season. I mentioned this project at work a few weeks ago and everyone was excited to become involved. I'm going to share this information in an upcoming newsletter at work as well that goes out to our customers. Lately, I've been doing a lot of charity work with my job. In October we honored Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In November, we honored the Hurricane Sandy victims, and now we can expand our charity work by sharing our Holiday mail for the heroes involvement.

Not only do all these projects make us feel good about ourselves, it shows our customers and the community that we are dedicated to changing lives and making generous donations to those in need and those, much like the service members, who are unable to make it home to their families for the holidays.

Being that I'm Miss Marketing & creativity over here, I took the initiative to make my own holiday cards. Give me a pair of scissors, colorful paper, and all other artsy products and I will let my imagination run wild. You can see my progress below, as I was sure to snap many photos during this project. I also bought a box of cards and had members of my family sign them as well.

I know that if I were a service member, I would love getting these holiday cards in the mail. It makes me smile knowing that in a few weeks, these cards will be received and a smile will be returned on their end. I made sure in every card to thank them for their service & that I wish for them to get home safely & soon!

Below, check out a slideshow of my photos from my Holiday Mail for Heroes journey...(make sure you turn your volume on too for some holiday music!)

Holiday Mail for Heroes - picture slideshow

Thank you everyone who became involved in this project this holiday season! Myself and the service members appreciate it!

Also, how many of you saw snow yesterday? It snowed in my area ALL DAY and getting

out of my town was ridiculous. No one believed me when I said it was bad up by me....but I have the proof! Luckily the ride home was much better after work! Hope everyone enjoyed it, as it was very beautiful. West Milford even made the news for getting 6 inches of snow...which was suppose to only be 1-3 inches! I don't know weatherman....LOL

Please, feel free to leave your feedback on my Holiday Mail for Heroes involvement & Happy Holidays to all!

Join Us This Holiday Season: Holiday Mail for Heroes

The holidays are rapidly approaching and we have so much to appreciate and give thanks for! Many of us have family and/or friends who are members in the service and while we give our thanks to them every day, we want to brighten up their holiday season a little bit more. These men and women are actively serving our country and will not be able to make it home for the holidays with their families. Everyone deserves to have some holiday cheer in their life, which is why Berkeley College will be participating in an event called “Holiday Mail for Heroes!” We can’t do this alone, so won’t you help us this holiday season and bring joy to our dedicated men and women all over the world?

I came across this event from a post on our “Berkeley Cares” Facebook page and I knew right away I wanted to help out, so I reached out to Nicole Tumbull, the coordinator of student development and campus life, and asked how to become involved! There is still time, so let me tell you all about it!

From now until November 29th, Berkeley College will be collecting holiday cards for the troops! You should visit your student center on campus, in which you will find collection boxes for these cards. There are a few guidelines for the cards, so please be sure to read them very carefully and please follow them accordingly. To make it a little easier for you, please see the guidelines listed below (you may also find more information at: http://www.redcross.org/support/get-involved/holiday-mail-for-heroes)

Card Guidelines:

•Ensure that all cards are signed.

•Use generic salutations such as “Dear Service Member.” Cards addressed to specific individuals can not be delivered through this program.

•Only cards are being accepted. Do not send or include letters.

•Do not include email or home addresses on the cards: the program is not meant to foster pen pal relationships.

•Do not include inserts of any kind, including photos: these items will be removed during the reviewing process.

•Please refrain from choosing cards with glitter or using loose glitter as it can aggravate health issues of ill and injured warriors.

•If you are mailing a large quantity of cards, please bundle them and place them in large mailing envelopes or flat rate postal shipping boxes. Each card does not need its own envelope, as envelopes will be removed from all cards before distribution.

Tis’ the season to make a difference and brighten up someone’s day…so won’t you join me and the rest of the Berkeley College family to create & send cards to our everyday heroes? You can even include your friends & family outside of school so everyone becomes involved.


Questions? Feel free to contact us:

If you have any further questions or would like to learn more about how you can become involved, please feel free to email myself at Lyndsay.wright@yahoo.com or you can reach out to Nicole Turnbull at nll@berkeleycollege.edu

Let’s all come together to brighten up our heroes holiday season!

And there was light!

My oh my, it's been one heck of a journey these past 2 weeks. I finally got my power back late Monday night & I've never been so happy! I know many of you are still in the dark & my heart truly does go out to all of you. I feel very fortunate that the only thing I lost was power for a week. Those of you who lost everything, please know I will be personally making donations to help restore and rebuild our communities.

Mother nature certainly has it out for us...Driving home tonight was quite a journey as we are now dealing with this snowfall. Took me well over an hour and a half to get home, from a commute that is only suppose to take a half hour. Thankfully, I am home safe & don't plan on going anywhere else for the night!

Since my last post, I've been busy at work as we are preparing for a big electronics trade show called Electronica, which takes place in Munich, Germany. Unfortunately, I do not get to go, but I have been heavily involved in marketing it to our customers and setting up appointments for companies to meet up with us to discuss future business opportunities with one another! I'll be sure to have the individuals going to take lots of pictures that I can share with all of you!

Due to the weather last week, my job was without power until Friday morning. Our big boss from the United Kingdom was visiting and we figured he brought the bad weather over with him, so it was ironic that once he boarded his plane to head back home, that our power at the office came back. Being out of work for 4 days last week was really tough because as I said, the electronics trade show is coming up and we still had lots of preparations to make. Catching up is always the hardest, especially with a million things going on at once, but I am managing. I was able to send out over 40+ emails confirming appointments for our Germany visit, so luckily that has been going smoothly. Aside from confirming, I need to make sure everything is photocopied and organized to be sent over. Once the sales people head over, that is it! Of course I'll be over here on the US side in the event they need something, but I feel confident that we are ready to rock and roll.

Since I wasn't able to meet with our big boss from the United Kingdom, I wasn't able to share all of my marketing over the past couple of months. I've now been on board with my job as head of marketing for 8 months! 8 months!! I still can't believe it. You work hard, and while it certainly pays off, the time just flies by WAY too fast. Being able to look back on my marketing 8 months ago till now, I can already see a mass amount of improvements. Each month I find something new I can do and it's a great feeling.

Our promotion last month was in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. For every order placed with us during the month of October, we would make a donation in the customers name on behalf of Breast Cancer Awareness month. So far we are donating over $2,000 to the Susan G. Komen society. Below is a team photo we took with our pink t-shirts in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

My next project at work is going to be targeted around the current devastation from Hurricane Sandy. As a way of giving back to the community, I decided to involve my company in making donations and a difference for those who lost everything from Hurricane Sandy. We all need to be in this together and help restore/rebuild all of our communities. Much like my Breast Cancer promotion, we are going to donate a percentage to the American Red Cross in honor of the Hurricane Sandy victims.

We feel very strongly about our community involvement and also our involvement with global charities. It's so rewarding to hear back from customers that what we are doing is really sweet and touches their hearts. We are also giving them the opportunity to help us out in our efforts and in return, rewards us as well.

I really wish you all the best and if you are still without power, please know there are many of us out here, willing to make donations and help everyone in need as soon as we can. We will come back stronger than ever, but we all need to take one step at a time!

As my promotion gets underway, I will certainly be sharing the results! If you have ways you are getting involved in the community, please share them with me! I would love to hear how you are making a difference!

Great Day, Great Fun: Berkeley College 8th Annual Charity Car Show

I would like to thank everyone who was able to come out and join us this past Sunday for Berkeley College's 8th Annual Charity Car show! The turnout was amazing and everyone had a great time coming together to help raise money for a very important cause.

I spent the whole day at the event and took a ton of photos which I wanted to post for everyone to see. I made it into a little slide show so it's a little more interactive and entertaining for all my followers! Please have a look for yourself below:

Berkeley College 8th Annual Charity Car Show -

See, now don't you feel like you were there yourself? Ok, not quite, but you can get the feel for the day. There were a lot of cool cars as you can see and we had a few people really dress their cars up in the spirit of Halloween! This was my 3rd year attending the car show, and again, all records were broken this year, which is great news. Berkeley College works on making their events bigger and better than previous years and it wouldn't be possible without the support of the students and staff, so we all thank you so much!

I am happy to share with you that this event helped raised over $26,000 towards a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. That is great news! I will try to obtain a final count as to how many cars ended up entering into the show, but we are looking to continue breaking these records year after year!

Make sure if you weren't able to join us this year, that you clear your schedule now and come out for the day! You will get to contribute to a great cause and have a ton of fun with your friends and family...how can it get any better than that?

On another note, I wanted to make quick mention of a project I am going to be helping out with over the next few weeks. The project was created by Berkeley Cares and is called "Cards for the troops." We'd like to get as many people involved as possible! Once I have some more information, I will be posting all about it, but please if you have interest in joining us to send troops holiday cards this holiday season, please email myself at lyndsay.wright@Yahoo.com or feel free to email: nll@berkeleycollege.edu letting us know you'd be interested in helping us out!

Why not brighten up the troops holiday season when they have to be away from their families? It's a great project and I am happy to say I will be a part of it! I'll keep you posted as the information becomes available to me, but please keep it in mind!

I hope everyone is having a great and successful quarter! It's hard to believe October is already coming to an end! Where is the time going.....?

Let Your Voice Be Heard...

We are all aware that Election Day is right around the corner, but have you given it much thought? We hear all these crazy stories on the news, on the radio, online, and we sit and wonder, how did we become involved in such a political mess? As young adults, we may not express much interest in the debate because we feel we have many other things to deal with, but this is our future. As college students, or even alumni like myself, we have to worry about our careers and our job status in 5 years from now, 10 years from now, basically for the rest of our lives. We see constant struggles in the economy, health care, and job opportunity, that if we don’t speak up now, what will the future hold for the children we raise one day?

Our voices deserve to be heard this Election. I can’t tell you have many times I’ve heard “It doesn’t matter if I vote or not, one little vote won’t affect the election.” Now, for the person saying that, they may think they are the only one who doesn’t go out in vote, but there are millions of people saying the SAME exact thing, that it does make a very substantial impact. Like I said, as we get older, we have a lot more to worry about. This is our generation, our future, our children’s future.

Berkeley College is a proud supporter of its student going out and letting their voices be heard. Check out this brief video which highlights some of our student’s thoughts on this upcoming election. You will see that they want our voices to be heard, as it will help us in making the best decision for our future and for our careers!



So will you let your voice be heard in this upcoming election?

Vote 2012...We can all make a difference together!

Where Will You Be On October 21st?

I can tell you a GREAT place to be, if you haven't already made some spectacular plan (which in my opinion, you could cancel it for this fun-filled event instead)!

Why not come on down to the Berkeley College Paramus campus for our 8th Annual Charity Car Show & Family Fun Day! This will be my 3rd year attending this event and it gets bigger & bigger every year! Bring your friends, your family, and wear your Halloween best because from 8AM to 2PM, the fun will just not stop!

The great thing about this event, is that all proceeds will benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation (esiason.org) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (cff.org) to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. There will be a variety of things to do, see, eat and drink throughout the day, while you support a worthy charity.

Are you sold on joining us yet or should I go on? Ah, what the heck, let me go on!

Here is what else we have in store for you:

- Antique and Exotic Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles
- Live bands and DJ
- Blood Drive
- Kids' Activities
- Halloween Costume Contests: awards will be given to the best costume and the best vehicle costume (Like I said, wear your Halloween best!!)
- There will be a variety of specialized vehicles on display too!

Car enthusiasts are invited to register their vehicles for display.

Registration is $20. Only vehicles registered by October 15 will receive a participant trophy. Donations will also be accepted.

General admission for spectators is a $2 donation, children under five enter free. (Again, these proceeds get donated to a VERY special charity!)

Anyone interested in helping out the day of the event is encouraged to contact the Paramus Admissions Department @ 201-967-9667:

Tracy Welch ext. 1706 email - TEW@BerkeleyCollege.edu
Rob Oddo ext. 1701 email - RMO@BerkeleyCollege.edu

Please contact Tracy Welch for registration/donation forms or with any questions, or use the link below:

http://www.berkeleycollege.edu/CarShow/2012.htm

Need the address, well, I'll hook you up with that!

Berkeley College Paramus NJ Campus
64 East Midland Ave, Paramus, NJ


If I haven't sold you on joining us, then this is the exact reason I'm not in sales! But anywho, I urge all of you to come out, whether it be for an hour or so, just to make a contribution to these great charities! There's so much to do and so much to see! In the event you can't make the event, I'll be around snapping photos, so I'll be happy to share those after the event!

I hope everyone is having a great quarter thus far and I hope to see you at the car show!

Alumni Reunion Weekend!

Attention to all Berkeley College Alumni & Friends of Alumni! Berkeley College will be hosting an Alumni Reunion Weekend on the weekend of September 21st and September 22nd!


This two day event, held Friday in Woodland Park, NJ and Saturday in New York, NY, will feature a variety of engaging workshops, presentations and social events.


Faculty Mixer and Hudson River Dinner Cruise

There will be a marquee event on Friday evening, a Faculty Mixer and Hudson River Dinner Cruise onboard the Spirit of New York. Catch up with professors while enjoying spectacular views, dinner, dancing and cocktails for only $42.50 per person!

If you have any questions regarding this Alumni Reunion Weekend, send an email over to: alumni@berkeleycollege.edu as they will be happy to answer any questions you may have!

To be directed to the Alumni Reunion Weekend page, please follow this link: http://berkeleycollege.edu/alumni_bc/4072.htm

Unfortunately, I have a wedding that weekend, so I won't be able to attend, but I encourage all Alumni to check it out if you don't have any prior commitments! I'd love to see pictures too if you attend, so be sure to share them!