Main Street Geneseo will be a flurry of activity during the "Main Street Bash" Aug. 31 from 3 to 7 p.m.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- An event coordinated by a student ambassador in the college’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery & Development (CIDD) will help introduce new students to Geneseo’s Main Street.
The “Main Street Bash,” scheduled Aug. 31 from 3 to 7 p.m., is free and will feature restaurant tastings, entertainment, wagon rides to the Wadsworth Homestead, giveaways and much more, according to senior Sarah Jane Phillips, who is serving as the college’s Community Advocates Ambassador in Community Engagement as well as an intern for the Geneseo Community Main Street organization.
"I am hoping that after this event students will have more of a sense of home here in Geneseo," said Phillips. "I know how scary and intimidating all the new experiences of college can be and I want students to know that Main Street does not have to feel like that. I also want to provide students the opportunity to meet the businesses owners and the people who really make the town of Geneseo such and important part of their college experience. The entire Geneseo Community is a home away from home, and I know personally by the end of your four years here, it becomes home. I am am excited to bring some life back to Main Street after the summer and really welcome the college students and community members to come together in the celebration of the new academic year."
Phillips said numerous organizations will have a presence on Main Street, including those seeking student volunteers for service work. The event is part of the College’s “Weeks of Welcome” program, which helps familiarize new students with the campus community.