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.

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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.