Valentines or Airplanes...It's all About Sending Love!
February 9th, 2012 - by Martha McCannSponsor: Tri-State - NJ/PA/DE
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We had a very good CC today - about 460 Mids came, including several staff and professors. We like to see the professors because they sometimes interact with the students on a more informal basis. Actually, several weeks ago a professor met his class at Cookie Cafe and it looked liked they were having a very good time together. Betsy came, as did Lisa, myself, Nancy Baransky, Gayle and Johanna. What a great group of women! Mary Jane had to be somewhere, but had her sister drop off the cookies early in the morning. What devotion.
We celebrated Valentine's Day by having lots of festive materials available for the Mids to make their own valentines. Of course, the girls quickly started making the cutest valentines using all the heart shaped doilies, stickers, glue, paper, envelopes and confetti we had provided on every table. The boys...on the other hand, made valentine airplanes. Some things never change. But they all had fun and hopefully some valentines will be sent to their girlfriends, moms and grandmothers too. At the end of the day some table cloths got shaken out with the confetti still in them, so now the front of Babson has a trail of red hearts on the driveway. We tried to sweep up as much as we could, but several still decorate the campus, and that's not such a bad thing.
As we were cleaning up, one of the mothers found a poem anonomously left for us on one of the tables - it just says it all about how the Mids feel about Cookie Cafe:
"I love you more than Delano Food, or squaring on the street.
More than the teachers here, or any KP girl I meet.
You come in all colors and flavors, so sweet to taste,
But with so many to eat, I always make no haste.
This place is pretty bad, with little time to play,
But when I wake up on Thursday, I thank God for Cookie Cafe!"
Love, The Plebe Poet
How wonderful is that? Also, the Markey family came to CC bearing wonderful cookies. They have a 3rd class daughter and a 2nd class son at KP and are from Delaware. We had many heart shaped cookies decorated for Valentine's Day, which made Cookie Cafe very festive.
Clean up is getting easier, especially when our energy is flagging at the end of the day. Again the clean-up man who takes care of the lounge came to visit us and said how much he loves how we leave the place. Lisa Donitz came to visit us and took a plate of cookies up to the Alumni Foundation staff, which we were happy to provide. We also sent a tray of cookies with students for Friday's Midshipmen Valentine's Day Dance.