Jan. 18, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Campus Turns Out to Cheer Students In Olympic Torch Relay
Students,
faculty and staff turned out in force Jan. 16, lining university sidewalks,
Grand Avenue and California Avenue to cheer for the Olympic Torch Relay.
According to relay officials, Cal Poly is one of only two university campuses in
the nation chosen to host a leg of the Winter 2002 Olympic Torch Relay.
Cal Poly student Courtney Page, 22, a business major, received the Olympic flame
on Grand Avenue and brought it on campus past cheering crowds in front of the
dorms.
Cal Poly student Brandi Dias, 19, a history major, carried the torch on
the streets of San Luis Obispo.
Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Wes Connor was the
last to carry the Olympic Torch during it's stop in the city of San Luis Obispo
-- and the one to light the Olympic 'cauldron' with the torch at the end of the
evening.
Dias arranged to keep her torch, and planned to travel to New York over the
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and present her torch to the New York
City Fire Department on Jan. 20, in memory of those lost in
the Sept. 11
attacks.
Click Here to read more about Courtney Page.
Click Here to read more about Brandi Dias.
Page brings the relay to campus
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