Oct 13 2008
Pancakes!
More than thirty current and former HHSTA-Central members turned out this past Saturday morning, many before dawn, to flip pancakes at this year’s pancake breakfast. Teachers from every department were on hand manning the grill, mixing the batter, serving drinks, and busing tables. Hall of Fame inductee Dick Flescher took lessons from cooking teacher Liz Perlini which provided a show worth the price of admission to those in line for their pancakes. Gina Gagliano, a math teacher, took great pride in her ability to pour perfectly round pancakes. Guidance counselor Joe Prieto stoked the grill and looked good in his chef’s hat. Latin teacher Alisha McCloud gathered tickets and greeted the arriving masses. There were many more I’m leaving out right now, but all were very busy to say the least. I primarily ran back and forth between three grills gathering pancakes for our waiting customers - most of which I swiped from Corky:
In the morning shift which I worked, people were in line waiting out the door of the cafeteria from pretty much 8:00am until the homecoming parade started around 10:00am. According to one of our retired members, John Duffy:
What a fantastic day. Thanks for inviting me and congratulations on the outstanding organization. It looked like a turnout larger than I can recall. Certainly, the first shift was much larger than usual.
Later I caught up with Kristen Bronke, who with Dawn Oler as co-chair, organized the event. The purpose of the pancake breakfast is to raise funds for the HHSTA-Central Scholarship fund. Last year HHSTA-Central provided seven scholarships to students entering the teaching profession or a vocational pursuit. According to Kristen HHSTA raised over $2,700 at the door yesterday alone. Couple this with the nearly $2,500 in advanced ticket sales from Central teachers, and the event will have grossed over $5,200 for our scholarship fund.
Congratulations to the organizers, and thanks to all of those who participated in their association!
