Mount Union College plans activities for Parents Day

Parents will have a chance to visit residence halls during the day.
ALLIANCE -- Mount Union College will have its annual Parents Day events Saturday.
From 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., check-in and ticket pickup will take place in the main lounge of the Hoover-Price Campus Center, where breakfast refreshments will be served.
Also in the main lounge, at 9 a.m. Rosemary Bienz, director of MUC's Academic Support Center, will present "Parents 100 -- The Finals Countdown," a discussion of the role parents can play in helping students stay focused academically through final exams.
Free caricatures will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the main lounge. Parents can take home a caricature as a memento of the weekend.
Both a tour of the college president's home and a residence hall "meet-and-greet" affair will take place from 9:30 to 11 a.m., where parents will have the opportunity to tour the residence halls and meet resident directors.
Tailgating
A tailgate party will be in the campus center dining commons from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tailgate tickets can be purchased that day, beginning at 9 a.m. in the campus center. Tickets are $5.75 for adults; $3 for children under 12. Lunch tickets will not be sold in advance.
The annual legacy luncheon, for students and their parents and/or grandparents who are Mount Union graduates, will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the campus center. Pictures will be taken at 11 a.m.
Reservations for the luncheon can be made by contacting the office of alumni activities at (330) 823-2030.
For more information about Parents Day, call (800) 992-6682, ext. 2137.