Christmas 2007

Sunday, December 2nd the CLS club and faculty hosted the annual Christmas party. Four different types of soup along with different types of Panera bread were served.

An example of the six different spreads available to go with the bread.

After everyone had filled up on soup and breads there was a cookie decorating contest.



Following the judging of the cookies the CLS club showed the movie "home alone"

Karen's new organism

Karen says - "Isn't she the cuutest organism" . This is Kalyse trying out her legs.

Karen meets CSI founder

Karen had the opportunity to attend the College of American Pathologists (CAP) exhibits in Chicago, on Monday, October 1st. There she met the founder of CSI. That's right!! Ron Ghafary is the founder and President of Cytometry Specialists Inc. CSI-LABS, founded in 1997, is a state-of-the-art, independent oncology diagnostics laboratory located in Alpharetta, Georgia. They offer cytogenetic analysis, fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH), molecular testing, six-color flow cytometry, and hematopathology services. Check out their web site at http://www.csi-labs.com/

International potluck

On Thursday Sept 20th the CLS department held it's annual International Potluck. Actually there are several held during the school year. The Senior class really out did itself this year. There was so much food and such a variety of food that whoever happened to be walking the halways was invited to partake. The empty tables waiting to be filled.

And filled they were.

Al was batching that week but still brought the perogies. Sorry they were not homemade this year.

An abundance of food.

Plenty of sweets as well.

Some guests loading up.

Students loading up with good food.

Thanks Seniors for the great variety and quantity of food.

Maryam shares some pictures

Maryam emailed me today and shared some pictures of the Colorado area and some from various events here at Andrews. She has moved back to San Diego, CA but has job offers from Porter Hospital in Denver and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She will be making a decision soon on which one she takes.

She caught Al at the Christmas party held at Mr. Show's


Some of the Christmas party attendees

The host - Mr. Show

Certificate ceremony - a few of the 2007 Graduates

THE TIE - look out when Al wears it !!!!

Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Vespers

The annual spaghetti dinner was well attended. The featured menu of spaghetti, salad, bread sticks was followed by "create your own brownie sunday" with cookies and brownies supplied by the faculty.

Dr. Kilsby dished out the icecream.

Mr. Show making sure the punch was up to QA standards.

Fran McMullen when asked what she was doing just said "breadsticks".

Loading up

Following the meal, Dr. Kilsby had a slide show on her recent trip to Eritrea in NE Africa. She was invited to help that country upgrade their clinical laboratory training program.