Horsin' around for Cupboard wins
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Photos by Dining Services staff: Noelle B. Bloom, assistant director, and Autumn L. Hampton, manager
All for a good cause! Helena N. Floyd (left), student affairs specialist, and Karen L. Furey, office assistant to student engagement, are ready for some derby action at the recent "Race Against Hunger," benefiting Penn College's student food pantry, The Cupboard.
Penn College Dining Services’ second annual “Race Against Hunger” took place in CC Commons on April 16. The event raised over $600 for The Cupboard at Penn College, the food pantry for students in need of food assistance.
Participants enjoyed a Kentucky Derby-themed menu, featuring bourbon flank steak and mint julep mocktails. To add to the fun, those who purchased a meal, made a monetary donation or donated non-perishable food items to The Cupboard received tickets to drop into the competing horses' paper bags in an attempt to predict the winner. At the end of the event, a winning horse was randomly drawn, and prizes of roses or bourbon balls were selected by the lucky “betters.”
The 10 horses in this year’s lineup were: Bullet Proof Pletz, Hasselhoofs Hampton, Moonshine Mystery Moore, Need for Speed Reed, Once in a Blue Moon Myers, Rowdy Rissel, Tangled in the Webb, Thunder Chuckle Crews, Waffle House Walton and Wendie for the Win. (All horses were named for school deans and other college administrators.) For the second year in a row, Wendie for the Win won the race! (The real Kentucky Derby is set for May 3, in Louisville.)
More information on The Cupboard can be found on its webpage.
The CC Commons in Bush Campus Center is ready for its own "Run for the Roses." Participants made their winning predictions by dropping tickets into their favorite horses' bags. The 10 participating horses were named in honor of school deans and other college administrators.
Giddy up! CC Commons staff are rarin' to start the "Race Against Hunger."
For the second year in a row, "Wendie for the Win" won! The namesake of the "horse," Wendie L. Snyder, director of College Health Services, "rode off" with a dozen roses.
On behalf of College Health Services, Snyder and Ellen K. Ciro, coordinator, donated a cart-full of items to The Cupboard.
Among the event's delicious options: mixed green salad with bourbon-glazed flank steak, bleu cheese and spiced pecans ...
... and bourbon-glazed flank steak topped with fried onions and served with pimento cheese mashed potatoes and green beans.
Human services & restorative justice majors join the fun. (From left): Jessica R. Davis, Zoey D. Gramly and Mauricia D. Vanderhost.
All eyes on the prize: the ever-appropriate red roses were donated by the Art of Floral Design class ...
... and another prize, Kentucky bourbon balls, were donated by Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.
Emergency management & homeland security student Michael J. Gruber considers his options.
JoAnn R. Reeves, disability and access resources specialist, places her bets.
Horse bags are lined up and ready to race.
A horse saddle is among the event's dashing decor.