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Campus Review
January 28, 2013
John Morrow Marine Commissioning
A Clayton State Family Affair
Health & Fitness Management Program to Provide
Free Student Personal Trainers for Student, Employee,
Public Members of SAC Fitness Center
John Lewis Morrow, a May 2012 honors
graduate of Clayton State University with
a B.S. in Biology, returned to the
University’s campus last month to be
commissioned as a second lieutenant in
the United State Marine Corps.
Now-U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Morrow
accepted his commission during a com-
missioning ceremony which took place at
the Lawson Amphitheater on the Clayton
State campus. The commissioning cere-
mony is a formal ceremony where officer
candidates transition from their status as a
candidate to that of a Second Lieutenant
in the U.S. Marine Corps. Following the
ceremony, Morrow conducted his own
“pinning ceremony” by enlisting the help
of his parents, Daniel and Cheryl Morrow,
and his wife, Anna Morrow, to pin the
gold bars, the insignia of a Second
Lieutenant, on his uniform. At that time,
he also received his first salute from an
enlisted Marine and his orders from his
commanding officer.
Morrow’s choice of the Clayton State
campus as the site of his commissioning
was a natural. His parents met at Clayton
State, and Morrow and his wife also met
at Clayton State and were married by
Swan Lake.
The Officer Selection Officer, Captain
Andrew Smith, spoke highly of Morrow
when he addressed those in attendance by
acknowledging the hard path Morrow
chose to take in becoming an officer.
Typically, candidates will take the easy
road by finishing college first and then
entering Officer Candidate School (OCS).
Morrow chose to enter OCS while in the
middle of his college career, which meant
he had the added burden of excelling at
OCS while keeping his GPA at the
required level needed to qualify to be
commissioned. Morrow achieved both.
Morrow will now go on to Platoon
Commanders School, TBS Quantico, and
then Flight school, NAS Whiting Field
Pensacola, as the next step in his military
career.
A tutor at the Center for Academic
Success during his undergraduate years at
Clayton State, Morrow previously gradu-
ated OCS in August 2011. OCS is a 10-
week course designed to train, screen, and
evaluate potential marine officers.
“After graduation from OCS, I left
Quantico and arrived in Georgia a day
before I began fall classes of my senior
year,” he explains.
Clayton State University’s Health &
Fitness
Management
Program
(HFMG), now a part of the
University’s College of Health, is ini-
tiating a new program whereby mem-
bers of the Student Activities Center
(SAC) Fitness Center will be able to
make use of the skills of Clayton State
student personal trainers – at no cost.
Starting in February 2013, this person-
al training program will be put on by
the students in the HFMG4999 course.
The 12 senior students in the course
will be providing clients with a free,
one-on-one, eight-week weight train-
ing program (twice a week), cardio
program, pre/post test, and goal setting.
The training (and trainers) will be avail-
able from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, depending on the individual trainer’s
schedule. Bios of the student personal train-
ers will be available at the SAC front desk
starting on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Any members of the Fitness Center (stu-
dents, professors, alumni, and community
members) who are interested in the free
training can go to the front desk of the
SAC after Jan. 31 to sign up for training.
All that’s required is filling out the proper
paperwork, including selecting a student
personal trainer, and having a member-
ship at the Fitness Center.
Participants in the initiative who are
not Fitness Center members will need
to purchase a Fitness Center member-
ship.
While the student personal trainers are
not professionally certified, they have
obtained senior level status in the
Clayton State HFMG program, notes
Health & Fitness Management’s
Jeremy Galloway, an ACSM-Health
Fitness Specialist who is in charge of
the student personal trainer initiative.
For more information, please contact
jeremygalloway@clayton.edu.
John and Anna Morrow