2010 HOLIDAY LUNCH DECEMBER 18, 2010

RSVP BY MONDAY DECEMBER 10, 2010

Hello Martha Cookies!  It is not too late to sign up for Holiday cheer!!!!  Martha Cookies are gathering for mid-winter cheer at the Birmingham Athletic Club on December 18^th for lunch.  Come join your fellow Cookies for our annual Holiday lunch.  The extended deadline for RECEIPT of your form and check is December 10^th.

The weather may be cold outside, but inside, it will be warm and cheery! Come join your fellow Martha Cookies for a Holiday Lunch at the Birmingham Athletic Club on Saturday, December 18, 2010, at 11:00 am. Lunch will be served at 11:45 pm.


The Birmingham Athletic Club is located at 4033 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301.


What could be better than great friends, good food, fun, and fellowship during the holidays? We would love to see you! See the sign up form, below.


______I have enclosed $34 x ________ number of persons attending

= $_______________


Name: (please include maiden name) and class year:

Email:

Phone:


My Luncheon choice:

__________ Great Lakes Whitefish (lemon buerre blanc, steamed seasonal vegetables)

__________ Broccoli and Chicken Strudel (in rich veloute, wrapped in flaky phyllo)

_________ Risotto Tuscany (saffron risotto, wild mushrooms, Asiago cheese, pesto drizzle; vegetarian selection)

Name of my guests and their luncheon selections (Whitefish OR Strudel OR Risotto Tuscany)

Make checks payable to “Martha Cook Alumnae Association.”

Please send your check to Marion Law, MCB Director, Martha Cook Building, 906 South University, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. If you have any questions, please call Meg at 248-681-0931 or email her at mdlentz@ameritech.net

Cookies Have Talent

Do you sing or play an instrument? Would you like to join other Martha Cookies who also sing or play? The MCAA Board is looking for Cookies with talent who are willing to share their talent at future events for the Martha Cook Alumnae Association, like the Spring Tea or the Holiday Lunch.

If you would like to be added to the roster of musically talented Cookies, please send an email to Meg Lentz at mdlentz@ameritech.net with your name, email address, your instrument or instrument (e.g., voice and keyboard), and the kind of music that you like to sing or play.

Thanks,

Meg

Any Clues?

"What Makes Life Worth Living?" -
Sign posted across the street from Martha Cook

2010 HOLIDAY LUNCH DECEMBER 18, 2010

2010 HOLIDAY LUNCH DECEMBER 18, 2010

RSVP BY MONDAY DECEMBER 6, 2010

The weather may be cold outside next December, but inside, it will be warm and cheery!  Come join your fellow Martha Cookies for a Holiday Lunch at the Birmingham Athletic Club on Saturday, December 18, 2010, at 11:00 am.  Lunch will be served at 11:45 pm. 


The Birmingham Athletic Club is located at 4033 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301. 


What could be better than great friends, good food, fun, and fellowship during the holidays?  We would love to see you!   See the sign up form, below.

 


______I have enclosed $34 x ________ number of persons attending
 = $_______________




Name: (please include maiden name) and class year:


Email:


Phone:


My Luncheon choice:

__________ Great Lakes Whitefish (lemon buerre blanc, steamed seasonal vegetables)


__________ Broccoli and Chicken Strudel (in rich veloute, wrapped in flaky phyllo)


__________ Risotto Tuscany (saffron risotto, wild mushrooms, Asiago cheese, pesto drizzle; vegetarian selection)





Name of my guests and their luncheon selections (Whitefish OR Strudel OR Risotto Tuscany):


                                                                                                                                        


                                                                                                                                        


                                                                                                                                        

Make checks payable to “Martha Cook Alumnae Association.” 

Please send your check to Marion Law, MCB Director, Martha Cook Building, 906 South University, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 

If you have any questions, please call Meg at 248-681-0931 or email her at mdlentz@ameritech.net

MCAA Board 2010

The Martha Cook Alumnae Association Board began the new year this September. Standing by the portrait of Martha Cook in the Red Room are: Lynn Zwink ’06 President, Mary Gray ’61 Secretary, Cindy Rose ’70, Meg Lentz ’76, PJ Petitpren ’88, Paula Petitpren ’87, Catherine Davis ’70.

Not pictured are: Thea Bude ’08, Shelley Catalan ’08 Nominations Chair, Ameilia Deschamps ’05, Sally Dilks ’80 Treasurer, Marti Morris Keefe ’70, and Elizabeth Nofs ’75.

Please welcome our new MCAA Board and wish them well on their endeavors this year!

MCB Makes News in Interesting Place

MCB Makes News in Interesting Place

by Catherine Walsh Davis '70, MM"76


You've probably always thought your life at MCB was pretty normal. I know I did. So it was strange to find an article about Martha Cook, "The 'Cookie' That Won't Crumble," under the superheading of "Ann Arbor: The Weird, Strange, and Offbeat" in the web publication "Ace Deuce Off-Suited." The article has a link to a You-Tube video of MCB too, if you can believe it!

Despite the offbeat location for a description of our beautiful building, the article is well-written and complimentary, and the video is a series of graceful pictures of our building set to background music

of residents singing the Grace. To check it out for yourself, see:

http://acedeuceoffsuited.wordpress.com/lifestyle/

The Anne E. Shipman Stevens Scholarship

It is an honor to serve

For the past several years, the Martha Cook Alumnae Association has assisted in evaluating the candidates for the Anne E. Shipman Stevens Scholarships. Our involvement allows the building director to share the lives of her residents without partiality or favoritism.


Interviewing the scholarship candidates is a tremendous responsibility for volunteers. The Martha Cook Alumnae Association has worked together on making our selection criteria fair, honest and transparent.

In the Red Room: Meg Lentz, Cindy Rose, Lynn Zwinck and Shelly Catalan.

Shelia Davis and Catherine Davis, below.

Our work is assisted by Mary Gray and Megan Schrauben. (not pictured). Technology has come to Martha Cook. This year, our scholarship committee is joined by Ann Chatterson who is joining us remotely by phone.

Yes, that is indeed tea on the table. Meetings at Martha Cook Building are always gracious and they come with something delicious from the chef.


You can contribute to the Martha Cook Alumnae Association Scholarship programs and to the Building Fund if you wish. The links are listed on the left side of this weblog.

Reflections on the Recent Past: Holiday Tea 2009

by Catherine Davis, ’70, MM’76

My invitation to the spring tea came in Saturday’s mail and triggered the thought that I should share with my fellow Cookies some of my pictures from our last major alumnae get-together, December’s holiday tea.

 

Outdoors, Saturday, December 12, 2009 was a nice day, warmer and sunnier than usual for December. Inside Martha Cook, the atmosphere was warm and sunny too, but then it always is when the building’s alumnae gather there.

We met in the Gold Room and helped ourselves to tea and goodies, both from a central table in front of the north fireplace and also from plates of cookies scattered around the end tables and benches. The items in the center of the table that look like Christmas gifts are really decorated cakes that were most yummy!

Current Martha Cook resident and chair of the 2009 Messiah Dinner Musicale, Sarah Cravens, played background music while guests mingled and also organized our short “formal” program, a reprise of part of the Messiah Dinner Musicale: 3 solo performances and a medley by the Cookie Chorale.

It was a day when Cookies could share their college home with family and friends.

Cynthia Farina BSN’83 brought her daughters to tea.

So did Anjanette Stoltz ’88, MD’91.

Nancy Short ’03 brought her mother.

All in all, it was a wonderful afternoon

11th Annual Coming Home Spring Tea

Please join us for the

Martha Cook Building

11th Annual Coming Home Spring Tea

Featuring an Alice in Wonderland theme

Saturday, April 10, 2010
2-4 pm

All in a Golden Afternoon
Musical performances by
current Martha Cook residents

$30.00 per guest
RSVP by March 28, 2010
Parking available at the Business School parking structure, located at Hill & Tappan. Parking $5.00 at the gate.

Anne E. Shipman Stevens Scholarship Fund

The Anne E. Shipman Stevens Fund provides scholarships to residents in the Martha Cook Building. Scholarships are based on need, service and academic scholarship.

The proposed schedule this year is:

Application available: February 24, 2010
Applications due: March 14, 2010
Interviews: April 11. 2010
The Anne E. Shipman scholarships will be announced at the graduation dinner: April 21, 2010

Please help contribute to our Scholarship Fund. Look on the left side in the table of contents for more information.

Join COOKIENET on Facebook

Join COOKIENET on Facebook

Look up CookieNet (for alums and current residents alike) on Facebook.


For more information contact cookienet@umich.edu

CookieNet is run by Cookies for Cookies, independently of the Martha Cook Building Alumnae Association

11th Annual Tea is Saturday, April 10, 2010

Come Home to Tea! Spring 2010

By Kathy Graneggen Moberg ’79, MCAA Newsletter

Our Coming Home Spring Tea tradition begins its second decade this year. The date for the 11th Annual Tea is Saturday, April 10, 2010

Our beautiful Building is always the welcoming college home you remember. Our dedicated dining staff always impresses with their scrumptious sweets and savories.  

And the company; Martha Cook women from all eras is really interesting and congenial. Someone is sure to sit down to our one-of-a-kind Steinway and play. If we are lucky, the early flowers will be blooming in the garden.

All this is well worth a trip to Ann Arbor in the springtime, so mark your calendars, call your friends and plan to meet at MCB for an afternoon of reconnecting over tea.