On Thursday, May 23, 2013 the St. Tikhon’s Community gathered at John’s Restaurant in Hamlin, PA to participate in the Annual End of Work Week Pizza and Ice-Cream Social.

Having spent the entire week cleaning and preparing the Monastery and Seminary grounds for the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend and all of the associated banquets and celebrations, this is a much needed rest before the community opens its doors to the steady stream of pilgrims who visit each year at this time.

For the past two years this event has been held in the seminary dining hall.

A very special thank you is due to Mr. John Paluch (STOTS 1968), (Director of Buildings & Grounds from 1983 to 2010), who hosted this event as he had for many years before his retirement.