Mather Does Trick-or-Treat

Who said going to college means the end of trick-or-treating and the arrival of slutty costumes and drunken parties? Well that person definitely didn't live in Mather House.

This afternoon, Mather House Administrator, Masters, Assistant to the Resident Dean, and Building Manager team up to bring the students and community of Mather its first annual Mather Trick-or-Treat.

The idea first began when Mindy McDonald, Assistant to the Resident Dean, wanted to bake pumpkin-flavored chocolate-chip cookies for the students for Halloween. Quickly, the idea spiraled into a full-fledged, four-station trick-or-treatin’ heaven for everyone.

The first station is located at Building Manager Miguel Casillas’ office, where wafer cookies, candy, and cookies abound. The second stop is at House Administrator JackieWheeler’s office, who helped to organize the event. Third station is at Mindy’s, where the pumpkin-flavored cookies are supposedly located. Fourth station is at the House Masters’, Sandra and Leigh.

During the five or so minutes that FlyBy was there, 4 people came to trick or treat. One of them, Piotr Szamel ’11, said: “I like candy, I like to see people, I was affected by people’s enthusiasm and so I came. And I am very happy that I did.”

House Master Sandra Nadaff commented that this Halloween trick-or-treat is “a terrific idea and hope that it will become a long standing tradition at Mather.”

FlyBy unfortunately didn’t get to try these pumpkin-flavored cookies, as they ran out well before we got there.

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Don Scarborough