UNMC held its annual Fall Fest on Thursday, a celebration of the season featuring Halloween and fall-themed activities.
Campus students and staffers were greeted with hot chocolate, coffee, cinnamon rolls and scones at the Sorrell Center and the Durham Research Center, and over the lunch hour, caramel apples were served, and campuswide costume and pumpkin decorating contests were held.
Business & Finance pumpkin winners announced
The Center for Healthy Living’s “Arnold Pumpkinegger” received the first-place “Great Pumpkin” Award and the People’s Choice Award in the UNMC Business & Finance Department’s annual pumpkin decorating contest.
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Arnold Pumpkinegger |
Two other finalists also were recognized. Pictured left to right above are Kaye Bridgeford and Mary Stoffel of general accounting and sponsored programs, with their “fast food pumpkin,” and Nicole Krom, Deb Motl and Angela Hayes from human resources/employee relations, with the department’s “bubble gum machine pumpkin.” Some of the pumpkin entries were donated to the Ronald McDonald House.
To see all 20 entries in the contest, click here.
The costume contest winner was dressed as Luna Lovegood from the “Harry Potter” series, beating out contenders that included a Picasso painting, a badger and a “Day of the Dead” motif.
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UNeMed’s winning pumpkin |
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Michael Barr’s “People’s Choice” pumpkin |
The campuswide pumpkin decorating contest winner, as decided by the panel of judges, was UNeMed, with a pumpkin brain. The people’s choice pumpkin winner was a “pumpkin spiced latte,” entered by Michael Barr of campus security.
“Fall Fest is a fun event designed to show appreciation for our employees and students,” said Anna Kirshenbaum, campus event coordinator. “The morning treats are especially popular, and we always see very creative costumes for the contest.”
For a photo slideshow of Fall Fest images, click here. If you have photos of your department celebrating Halloween, send them to the UNMC Today editor and they will be added to the slideshow.
The pumpkin contest would have been hard to decide who the winner is as all of them were awesome! Very talented people!