Once again, Staff Senate has partnered with the Rapid Center with the design and production of this year’s holiday ornament. Patrick Gardner, Director of the Center, several engineering students, and a student in the Department of Communications worked together to bring the ornament to life. Using a rough sketch created by members of the scholarship committee, Annalise Hicks Speer ’22, transformed the idea into a digital graphic design. The committee then took this design to the students working in the Rapid Center, who created a CAD model to be fabricated using a laser cutting machine. The end result is a beautiful rendition of the Cullowhee Lily, a white flower with six petals, also known as Zephyranthes atamasca. The flower once, common in the Cullowhee valley, now grows in only a few spots on campus.
Ornaments will go on sale at Mountain Heritage Day on September 24th and will also be available to purchase online after that date. Proceeds from the ornament sales will go to the Staff Senate Scholarship Fund. Ornaments at Mountain Heritage Day will be priced at $15 (tax included). Online ornament sales will be priced the same, with an additional $5.00 in shipping for off campus deliveries. On campus deliveries will be delivered free of charge. To purchase ornaments online, vist: https://wcupg.wcu.edu/C20252_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=784
Engineering student interns:
Will O’Shields, 2nd year graduate student
Sam Cooper, 1st year graduate student
Julia Mouer, undergraduate senior, engineering
Stefan Leclair, undergraduate senior, electrical engineering
Drew Johnson, undergraduate junior, engineering
’21-’22 Staff Senate Scholarship Committee:
Dana Boyer, chair,
Deborah Millican, co-chair
Anne Aldrich
Lisa Allen
Kathy Boland
Carrie Hachadurian
Deidre Hopkins, Staff Senate chair
April Hicks
Carol Hicks
Will Love
Adam Ray
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