12/3/2008

A Really “Souper” Christmas Tree!

Looking for a visual twist to the classic Christmas tree story? In the center of the Marketplace main dining room on campus is a 15-foot tree frame decorated with hundreds of cans of Campbell’s soup and hundreds of stockings stuffed with toys.

Campbell Soup Company donated a portion of the cases of soup. The remainder of the soup and the stockings were purchased with funds donated by students, faculty and staff. Approximately $500 was raised for the effort. The soup will be donated to the Elizabethtown Food Bank and the stockings will go to the Water Street Rescue Mission.

It took an entire team of Santa’s elves a full day and into the night to put up and decorate the tree. Be sure to take a look at the ingenious way the cans of soup were hung! The tree will remain up through December 12, the last day of final exams.