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Chef's Guiding Hand Helps Students Turn Confection to Perfection

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Culinary arts technology students Sarah Anne E. Haines (left) and Maria K. Maneval take part in decorating sweetsFrom simple Tootsie Roll to edible artworkPlastics and polymer engineering technology student Ryan K. Jackson follows the instruction of Chef Sue Mayer.The photogenic final product The Hospitality Living-Learning Community gathered in Dauphin Hall on Monday night with its faculty mentor, Chef Sue Mayer, to make Valentine’s Day

treats. Under the direction of Mayer and the community’s Resident Assistant, hospitality management student Eileen N. Harrington, about 10 students learned to make Tootsie Roll roses and decorated cupcakes and sugar cookies. The Residence Life Office offers a number of living-learning communities on campus that bring out-of-class opportunities to students enrolled in the same academic majors.
Photos by Brian D. Walton, coordinator of academic operations for the School of Business & Hospitality