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December 13, 1:30 - 3:30 pm

Please join us Wednesday, 12/13, at 1:30 pm. Stroll through the Westborough office for a holiday spread, fun and games. Use the Robin map as your guide.

Please RSVP by Monday, December 4th.

  • Gift Swap - Have you found the perfect universal gift the masses will fight over? Bring a wrapped gift ($25) to participate.
  • Great UMass Dessert Contest - Go for the glory. Choose your best dessert to enter this competition. Judges will award prizes for presentation and flavor. Bring plenty! Your colleagues will also sample these delicious treats!
  • Holiday Trivia - Join your friends and colleagues in a friendly holiday trivia competition. All you need to participate is your phone!
  • Most Creative Attire Contest - This is where things get CREATIVE. Come dressed for the season in the most creative, tacky, wacky, and fun holiday outfit you can find, buy, or make. This year judges will award an individual and a group for their most creative holiday attire.

UMPO Holiday Donation Drives

Big or Small, any donation helps.

Guild of St. Agnes Gift Drive

The Guild of St. Agnes, a long standing, educational, private, non-profit childcare agency provides families with quality, affordable, early childhood education, and school age programs for children from 4 weeks to age 12.

This year, we adopted two of the guild’s programs in Worcester for a total of 50 children. A wish list from each child is available on the giving tree in Westborough. Please stop by to choose a child to make a gift donation or email ops@umassp.edu to participate. All gifts should be wrapped and labeled with the child’s name (mitten or stocking) and returned to Westborough on Wednesday, 12/13.

Veteran’s Drive

To help provide Veteran patients with many things to make their period of hospitalization and outpatient treatment more pleasant, we are asking for the following new item donations for the VA Hospital in West Roxbury:

  • Men's Underwear (Med/Large/X-Large)
  • Sweatshirt/Sweatpants/Tee-shirt (Med/Large/X-Large/XX-Large/XXX-Large)
  • Shampoo, Conditioner, & Body Wash
  • ADA Stamped Toothpaste & Toothbrush's (must have ADA seal =American Dental Association)
  • Deodorant (Antiperspirant) (only alcohol-free versions) - the hospital will not accept any deodorant with alcohol for the patients.
  • Shaving Cream

Please bring items to HR on or before December 13th. 

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