FOOD THYMES
SPRING 2013
President’s Message
Dear Friends, Faculty, Alumni, and CSUN Community, It has been my honor to serve as President of the Student Dietetic and Food Science Association (SDFSA) for this academic term. As I look back on when I attended my first SDFSA meeting in 2010, I did not realize that this organization would be the foundation of my educational experience as a nutrition and dietetics student. I am grateful for the various leadership opportunities that I have been able to take on while serving as a member and officer the past three years. My leadership experiences in SDFSA have provided me with insight as to who I want to be as a dietetic professional. As we reach the end of another successful year, I would like to recognize our organization’s successes. We began the year with our annual Dietetic Internship Symposium. Various dietetic internship directors shared with our students, as well as visiting students from other campuses, valuable information about their unique dietetic internship programs. We also celebrated Food Day with our annual barbeque. We sold fresh and healthy lunch options for students and faculty including turkey burgers, veggie burgers, and salad with produce donated from Underwood Family Farms. The various Nutrition Lecture Series events were also a tremendous success. In the spring semester we hosted the 6th Annual Iron Matador cooking competition. This event, in particular, was a huge success thanks to the Iron Matador Committee members and volunteers. We show our strength as an organization when we work together to successfully implement events, such as Iron Matador. Congratulations to the winners of the event, Qundeel Khattak, Jessica Reynolds, and Lilyan Vosghanian, also known as “The Sweet Hearts”. This was the first year that we incorporated disease specific cooking as a theme, and we are proud of our contestants for combining culinary and food science, with health and disease management and prevention. Sincerely, Dana Sutherland SDFSA President 2012-2013
Advisor’s Message from Dr. Joyce Gilbert
“Our student members are extraordinary service volunteers in our communities. I am proud of each of our members and honored to have had the pleasure to be an advisor to this Association.” I would like to share a few thoughts as we conclude another academic year. My hope is that each of you will continue as service volunteers while growing into volunteer leaders. As volunteer leaders in food, nutrition, and public health may you continue to search for truth and advocate for the health of our nation, but not confuse those truths with the politics of advocacy so as not to compromise your pursuit of knowledge by a quest for power. May you always remember, with the privilege of an education comes the obligation of social justice and engagement in your community. Lastly, one always hopes, as a faculty advisor, to have served each of you within the realm of mentorship and imparted lessons learned to help your personal development as mentors and leaders. Mentorship is much like leadership, there are ones for a reason, ones for a season, and ones for a lifetime. At points in your life you will be called on to be any or all of these. Much success to each of you in your cathartic journey as food and nutrition professionals.
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