Dean's house + Faculty chefs = good party
The Owen community not only welcomes new ideas but quickly steps aside and lets the entrepreneurial spirit ride free allowing new clubs and organizations to be born year after year. OwenBloggers and Project Pyramid are two unique ideas that were born in recent years that have had a solid impact. We hear a lot about these two organizations because they have significant portion of external association… i.e. there is a way for people outside the Owen community to connect with them in some way. Today I want to showcase a unique organization that was born at Owen last year… the Owen Culinary Society.
I am going to paraphrase the mission, vision, and values of the Owen Culinary Society (OCS) because its my blog and I can do whatever I want :-) …To bring the community together by exploring the various cuisines of the world. That simple, and that cool. Members and friends of the OCS often pick a theme and cook a great meal… and people show up, eat, drink, and are merry.
The last OCS event was “Dinner with the Dean” where Dean Jim Bradford hosted the dinner at his house and the chefs were Jim, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Yvonne Martin-Kidd, Professor of Finance Craig Lewis, and Professor of Accounting Richard Willis. The spread included everything from grilled shrimp to flat-iron steak… it was awesome! The greatest part was that after we ate… we packed ourselves to-go-plates. Yum! I particularly enjoyed it because it was held during a weeknight and I got a chance to speak with new first-year MBA students… many of whom have been spending hours on end in the library trying to cope with the heavy workload of Mod 1. Ha, Suckers!
Liz and I were swapping engagement stories :-) Way in the background Jim and Yvonne... right behind me in the white shirt is our very on Jared
Nice job putting the event together, Isha.
This just goes to illustrate your point about 1st years. Whereas you are smiling and happy, you can see the distant and lifeless expression charachteritic of someone who has spent too long working on Finance.
Other than that, all I have to say is at least I didn't have to call one of those 1st years for directions.
Posted by: Jared | October 01, 2007 at 09:16 AM