The Mount Saint Mary College Beta Beta Beta (Tri Beta) Biology Honor Society hosted a hilarious fundraiser on Wednesday, April 2, where faculty, staff, and students paid to hit brave participants in the face with pies.
Mount faculty members came prepared with jackets and ponchos for “Pie Your Professors,” which featured volunteers like Evan Merkhofer, Vice President for Academic Affairs and associate professor of Biology; Doug Robinson, associate professor of Biology and Study Abroad Academic Coordinator; James Moran, associate professor of Biology; and Jennifer Bready, Interim Dean of the School of Arts, Sciences, and Education and professor of Mathematics.
What might have seemed like a pie-in-the-sky idea on paper turned out to be a successful fundraiser for the honor society, with proceeds going to the Tri-State Warming Station in Port Jervis, N.Y. Located in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, the Warming Station offers meals, showers, clean beds, and clothing to individuals in need from late Fall through early Spring. It’s open nightly during this time.
Since 1975, Tri-Beta has been the National Biological Honor Society at the Mount. Students who have completed their first semester of sophomore year and maintain a 3.0 or higher cumulative average in biology courses are eligible to join.
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