Nate Giesen helped open the Thistledown Racino as a VLT Manager, and later led the transition from Caesars to JACK Entertainment, leading initiatives on guest service and team member satisfaction, and taking on the VIP Marketing department.
Michael Guerriero serves as the president of Digitell Inc., and has served in a variety of roles over his 30-year career in the meeting and events industry. Guerriero is active in the hospitality industry and is a member of PCMA, MPI and IAEE and previously served on the 麻豆传媒 Hospitality and Event Management Advisory Board.
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Accessibility seating and other reasonable accommodations will be available to guests at Karamu. Guests in need of accommodations should arrive no less than 60 minutes prior to the start of the celebration and see an usher to be seated. Seating in these reserved areas cannot be guaranteed once the celebration begins.
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Prohibited items include:
Smoking is prohibited. Smoking is also defined to include any and all electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes.
For your safety and the safety of others, guests and their possessions are subject to inspection as a condition of admittance. The university reserves the final decision on all items brought into the venue.
Security will carry out security checks at the entrance of the celebration venue. Our priority is to do this as quickly as possible. Please allow plenty of time to get in the venue for the celebration.
Four decades before Geena Davis donned a catcher鈥檚 mask as Dottie Hinson in the iconic 1992 film 鈥淎 League of Their Own,鈥 Kent State alumna Lois Youngen, 鈥55, was earning her college tuition playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).Lois started her baseball career in 1951 as a 17-year-old, playing catcher for the Fort Wayne Daisies before being loaned to the Kenosha Comets. She played another two seasons with the Daisies and two seasons with the South Bend Blue Sox. From 1951 until 1954, Lois was behind the plate or in left field from June through August, wi...
Join us to explore the lasting impact of the Vietnam War through the perspectives of adoptee Mahli Xuan Mechenbier, J.D., and retired Maj. Gen. Ed Mechenbier, a Vietnam prisoner of war, connecting the war鈥檚 humanitarian and historical consequences to Kent State鈥檚 legacy.
This ticketed event is free and open to the public.
