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January 23, 2004 Lynn Norwood @ 313 927-1493

lnorwood@marygrove.edu

Glenda Price Challenges Marygrove College

To Lose Weight

Detroit, Michigan—Glenda Price, president of Marygrove College, has a plan to help change the way people feel about Detroit being labeled as the fattest city in the nation. Price is challenging students, faculty and staff to join her in an effort to collectively lose 500 pounds by the last week in April.

“During the holidays, many of us ate and drank too much, and we exercised too little,” Price said in her statement. “Beginning today, I am challenging you to eat better, exercise more, lose weight, and create a healthier you. Let us all contribute to reducing our designation as the fattest city in the nation.”

The college currently offers day and evening Weight Watcher’s classes. The campus also has a fitness center, and a cafeteria and vending machines that offer low calorie meal options.

Marygrove College is a liberal arts college located on 53 park-like acres in one of Detroit’s oldest residential neighborhoods. With class sizes that range from 11-15 students, both graduates and undergraduates receive personalized attention from professors who pride themselves in knowing their students by name. The College has more than 16,000 alumni who work in their communities as teachers, social workers, musicians, dancers, artists, and in various business professions in metro Detroit and around the country. ###