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Approximately 85 participants discovered (or rediscovered for those faithful students who keep coming back year after year) that Vacation College is the next best thing to being a Cottey student. Held every May in the week following Commencement, Vacation College allows alumnae, P.E.O.s, B.I.L.s, and friends of the College to live in Robertson Hall for a week, eat the fabulous Cottey cuisine, and take interesting and fun courses from Cottey faculty.
Classes ranged from the ever-popular Mediterranean Cooking (taught by chef Michael Richardson) and Tap Dancing to British Royal Families and Personal Finance. Harriet Fox, a member of the Social Justice class, wrote of her experience, “I did love the Social Justice class and feel that I was opened up to a whole new way of thinking and action. Revelations are hard to come by in this day and age, but I certainly had one there.”
Della Bozworth was briefer in her description of her favorite things. “Beautiful campus, wonderful classes, meeting so many nice people, and oh yeah, the food.” After seeing the campus and experiencing Cottey life, how can one keep this jewel of a college a secret? Bonnie Brown wrote that she liked, “Meeting Cottey staff and seeing how ultra-helpful they are. Assuming this is how students are treated, it now becomes a mission to recruit students and to get my chapter to ‘step up to the plate’ with giving.”
Want to live like a Cottey student for a week and join the fun? The next Vacation College will be May 18-23, 2010. Information and registration will be available in early January.
