Winter l^ne Crescent 1986-87 Feature By LIN SANFORD ASUA President Campus involvement lands a top job for Erin McBryde budget of $303,000, and is re et involved," is the sponsible for all ASCJA activities. advice Associated Stu She is also the student spokes dents of the (Jniversity of Arizona man to the Arizona Board of (ASGA) President Erin McBryde Regents, Arizona State Legisla (Arizona) gives prospective col ture, faculty and community. lege students. To Erin, extra "1 owe student government a curricular activities make the lot," says Erin. "It has given me difference. "They make you a self-confidence and determina part of the campus community tion, and taught me how to and give you a say in the events accomplish the goals 1 set for that affect your college life," myself. Most important is the says Erin. knowledge that my involvement In a landslide election, Cniver is benefiting other students." sity of Arizona students elected In addition to her student gov Erin, a senior political science/ ernment accomplishments, Erin sociology honor student, the has been on the Dean's List and school's first female student body the Dean's 4.0 List, and is a mem president in 13 years. ber of Mortar Board. She has Erin's involvement on campus proven herself a valuable asset to began her freshman year when Gamma Phi Beta, and was voted she volunteered to help with the outstanding member in both Erin school elections and became a McBryde her sophomore and junior years. (Arizona) senate aide for ASGA. As a soph "Gamma Phi means the world " omore, she continued her post as to me, says Erin. "1 could not senate aide and became Speakers attributes her involvement with have come this far without the Board chairman and executive the Arizona Students Association help and encouragement of my vice president of the Associated and subsequent exposure to Uni sisters. They campaigned for me Pre-Law Students. She served versity of Arizona administra and supported me every step of also as Alpha Epsilon Chapter tors, Arizona Board of Regents the way." business manager. and state legislators as major fac Erin, who was born and reared Erin was a senate liaison for tors in her decision to run for in Casa Grande, Ariz., plans to the Arizona Students Associa ASCA president. spend the summer in Washing "I liked tion, a statewide student lobby the idea that my ac ton, D.C. working as an intern in when she was a tions with these group, junior. people could the office of an Arizona congress The group has an impact on have a positive impact on the stu man. Her next major goal is to " policy decisions affecting all uni dents at the (A of A, Erin says. attend law school at Stanford or versity students in Arizona. Erin As president, Erin oversees a the Gniversity of Michigan. 2 THE CRESCENT/WINTER 1986-87 u Winter 1986-87 Opinion CONTENTS Excellence! Easy to say. Sometimes difficult to achieve. Ratherine'^s Own 4 Gamma Phi Beta excel expects A new item in the gourmet snack food industry is a 76-year-old lence from every chapter, and en entrepreneur's delight. courages it through resources and guidance available from Gamma Phi Beta international officers. However, Delta 6 every chapter member must contrib Chapter ute commitment, desire and dedica Gamma Phi Beta returns to Boston Gniversity. tion to the group effort. Gamma Phi Betas have a choice between excellence and mediocrity. Grand Council 8 Gamma Phi Beta's future depends on 1986-88 Grand Council members promote Sorority excellence. the choices we make. 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Central Office THE CRESCEr<T/WinTER 1986-87 Feature Katherine^s A new item in the gourmet snack food industry is an entrepreneur's delight quires a lot of hands-on supervision When texture ("the bite is clean," atherine Hunter Prescott and is handmade daily in 30-pound i.e. crisp, declared one food editor) Q (Birmingham Southern) is a batches. was perfected and flavor sufficiently one-woman answer to what's new The Cinderella story for Katherine "intense," Katherine's Own, under in the gourmet snack food indus started when John took to heart the the umbrella label of Great Expec try. And the success story of this words of his "The King and I" asso tations Gourmet Foods, Ltd., was 76-year-old candy entrepreneur is ciates that the candy in mom's care officially launched at the 1985 Inter astounding. packages ought to be available national Fancy Food and Confec Little more than a year ago she commercially. To ensure a market tion Show just in time to win its best was making burnt almond toffee in did exist, the family took samples of domestic candy award. her 111. it to to an Northfield, home, giving Katherine's toffee "elegant What makes the toffee unique are friends for Christmas and sending it farmers' market" in a nearby suburb the ingredients and long, slow cook in care packages to son John, press and sold out every Saturday for ing. Katherine uses a dark Nestle agent for traveling Broadway shows. weeks. They were convinced. chocolate, quality almonds and she oversees a who remains her Today commercial John, market Georgia pecans, pure butter, and operation that produces 350 to 400 ing, packaging, promotion and dis sugar. With a constant under/over of toffee a week tribution then took pounds (a figure expert, samples stirring motion she makes sure sug that climbs to 1,000 pounds at to fashionable gourmet shops in ar is melted before adding slivered Christmas), basks in the limelight of towns where "The King and 1" was almonds. Cooking continues until being the recipient of the "new can playing. "We don't have to do much the mixture carmelizes and the al a taste. It dy of the year" award, and dreams except give people sells it monds are toasted by the intense up new taste treats to appeal to the self," he says. heat. Katherine knows the toffee is growing market of those who like Next step was to find a com done (usually after about 45 min snack food made with real mercial maker who could ingredi candy utes of cooking) when she sees a translate a ents and have the wherewithal to 3-pound recipe into a 30- puff of smoke. After the candy has pay for the best. pound batch. It took 12 tries during cooled slightly in its buttered metal "We two months to Katherine's specifically want to create replace pan, she pours on the melted choco aluminum and handmade gourmet food," says pot 48-year-old bat late and sprinkles it with chopped John, who coined the phrase "high tered black cookie sheet with cop pecans which she embeds by rolling as kettle and marble slab. touch" opposed to "high tech" per "One with the side of a glass. She lets the for what Katherine And doesn't a in produces. just multiply recipe's toffee cool overnight at room high touch the toffee is, as it still re gredients by 10," Katherine laughs. temperature (refrigerator moisture 4 THE CRESCENT/ WINTER 1986-87 By TALIE McKENZIE could make the pecans soggy, she confidently, referring to frequent being part of something that is before cautions) breaking into demonstrations in any of the 500 growing beyond her wildest dreams. pieces. stores in 50 states that sell the tof "It's not kids' stuff; it's a sophisti Katherine is proud her candy is fee. But the part she likes best is cated adult confection. It's for those sold at and Nieman-Marcus, Macy's talking to people, she says of the self-disciplined people who indulge but she is as Wanamakers, just hap 20,000 buyers and 4,000 exhibitors only in the very best," says John, py her local beauty par describing the toffee. lor and Hallmark shop Not that it started out it. In this carry fact, that way. Katherine woman who never flew can't even remember on an airplane until she where she got the reci was is in 70, reveling pe.