Picture of the Week: Pumpkin Pi, Anyone?

Rosanna Piña, administrative assistant in the Office of the Provost, recently shared this photo of a "Pumpkin Pi" with the campus community, helping everyone ease into the fall season. "It's actually my niece who made the pumpkin," she says.

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SSU Holocaust Memorial is One of Eleven Prestigious Recipients of an Anne Frank Sapling

A three-foot tall sapling grown from the horse chestnut tree that often lifted Anne Frank's spirits as she hid from the Nazis during World War II is coming to the newly created Holocaust Memorial Grove at Sonoma State University (pictured above).

SSU is one of 11 locations nationwide that will receive a sapling taken from the mature, aging tree that resides behind the Annex where Anne Frank, her family and friends spent two years in hiding. The 150-year-old tree is battling a lethal fungus. The Anne Frank Center USA (AFC) together with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam donated the eleven saplings of the Anne Frank Tree to sites across the country, including The White House, The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and SSU.

The sapling will be planted at the foot of the Erna and Arthur Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Grove at SSU, and signage near the tree will carry the words written by Frank in her diary: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"The addition of the Anne Frank tree will solidify the SSU campus as a major center on the West Coast for the study of the Holocaust and genocide," says Elaine Leeder, Dean of School of Social Sciences. "It will provide eventually a vast canopy under which the University Holocaust Lecture Series and the academic and educational programs throughout Northern California will continue for generations." Sonoma State is a "perfect fit" says Christopher Dinno, Senior Director of Planning, because of this region's ideal climate and soil characteristics for the historical sapling.

For more information, visit SSU's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Grove website or the Anne Frank Center USA's website. Video of the chestnut tree from Anne Frank's hiding place can be viewed on YouTube.

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