Ithaca College

You don't have to have a connection to the armed forces to attend Ithaca College's 13th annual Veterans Day Celebration!

TODAY: Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Noon-1 pm

Ford Hall, Whalen Center for Music

The celebration will include music by IC VoICes and the Ithaca College Brass Choir and will feature a presentation by Larry DeGreif (U.S. Navy, retired). DeGreif completed a distinguished 20 years of service in the United States Navy in 1980 as a master chief hospital corpsman. This included tours of duty in California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Among those tours was shipboard duty on the USS Berkeley DDG-15, the USS Sperry AS-12, and the USS Jason AR-8. DeGreif served in Vietnam as a platoon corpsman and later as an instructor at Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. He was an instructor and command chief petty officer at Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit #5 and headed the Shipboard Medical Assistance Team for Commander Naval Surface Force U.S. Pacific Fleet. Following his service in the military, DeGreif was employed at Mercy Hospital, Hillside Hospital, and Children’s Hospital, all in San Diego. He concluded his 33-year civilian career in environmental services as department director at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. DeGreif currently volunteers at The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society office at Naval Station San Diego.

Please join us in Ford Hall at noon TODAY, Tuesday, November 10.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Debra Gregg at veteranscommittee@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3761. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.