Wall of Fame

Since it's not always possible to show volunteers how much their work is truly appreciated, we decided to add a picture and description of some of our more dedicated volunteers to our office walls.

We chose six volunteers that made a special contribution to the Campus Kitchen over the past year (LT members, interns, regular volunteers, coordinators, etc.) to go up in the office. In addition to special events like our volunteer appreciation ice cream social, hopefully this will help show our volunteers exactly how important they are.

(This also helps add more flare to our bland office walls, which is nice.)

By the end of the summer, we should have 4 more volunteers up on the wall. Eventually, the entire office should be covered from top to bottom.

CKGCHS Volunteer Appreciation Day

Since the May 15 post the leadership team at Gonzaga thought it fitting to celebrate the efforts of the noble men here at Gonzaga who have committed at least ten hours of their time to CKGCHS. We had quite a few guys who satisfied the requirement and so an ice cream social was deemed appropriate for such outstanding volunteers. What better way of having an ice cream social than with vanilla and Neapolitan ice cream plus toppings galore and Brian Larkin. And so the leadership team decided May 16 would be the best time to have this afternoon of laughs and ice cream.

To get the ball rolling Neil, a member of the leadership team, suggested the use of contacting volunteers via the internet. To follow up on his suggestion I decided to set up a Facebook event group inviting all the men who satisfied the requirement for the ice cream social. By setting up the Facebook event I was able to find out relatively quickly those who could attend and those who could not attend. I felt considering all of us are guilty of checking our Facebook accounts multiple times a day setting up this Facebook event would be easy and reliable. Well aside from that great plug-in for Facebook the ice cream social turned out to be a blast with about 12 volunteers showing up and brightening our day at CKGCHS.

An afternoon of hanging out and shooting the breeze was certainly a good choice considering many of the seniors had begun to wrap up their final chapter of school. An event like this turned out to be a great way to thank the volunteers and bond a little more outside the business of cooking and delivering the incredible meals these men help make and deliver to our clients.

The line up.
Not forgetting we are a Kitchen the toppings must get their thank you for being so awesomely sweet. A big thank you goes out to the cherries, chocolate syrup, chocolate and mixed sprinkles, whip cream, and the always incredible waffle bowl. That's right in the leadership team's debate on whether to use waffle cones or plastic bowls we made a compromise and bought waffle bowls. The waffle bowl had several key factors that made it a winner for us at CKGCHS. Among the factors that make the waffle bowl incredible are its sweetness, the cool waffle pattern, and the fact that it is bio-degradable unlike the plastic bowls.

- Michael Christian, CKGCHS intern