The Chancellor's Party

The week after working DiRoNA, I got to serve dessert at Chancellor Sullivan's house party! It was a lot of fun. We set up a huge table of treats and showpieces. We also had a hot station where we flambéed pears to order. It was a good opportunity to talk to a lot of guests about Sullivan, and many of them had questions for me. I also got to tour his amazing house!

-Kate Richter

DiRoNA

This quarter, a few weeks ago, I got the pleasure of working two events for an even called DiRoNA. DiRoNA is the Distinguished Restaurants of North America. This year, owners from member of this organization met together in Louisville. I got to attend the opening reception for it at the Brown Hotel. There, I helped one of the chefs from the culinary department of Sullivan plate a lamb dish and serve it. I then got to work at a scholarship ceremony that all of the DiRoNA members attended as well as some students from Sullivan who had applied for certain scholarships. I spent five hours at school building 30 centerpieces for this seven course dinner. The centerpieces were sugar sculptures that went on plates of chocolates for the end of the night. The guests were really impressed and it was so fun to help my instructor, Chef Spendlove, prepare for the event. Here's a picture of some of the sugar showpieces and the plated dessert for the night:

-Kate Richter

Plus Friday Fun!

This past Friday I headed into school armed with my camera instead of my knife kit.  I bugged a few of my classmates and snapped pictures for this blog and my personal blog!  Turned out being a lot of fun!  Enjoy! 

There are few more pictures from this shoot on my Flickr page here.

- Lauren S. 

Paralegal Round Table 2014

Every year the  University organizes a Paralegal Round Table for the paralegal students to meet practicing paralegals and hear where they work and what they do. This is a great event for networking and career planning. Several of the speakers are former Sullivan students!

The Institute for Legal Studies at Sullivan University

is proud to present its

ANNUAL PARALEGAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

[Practicing paralegals from the local legal community will discuss and answer questions about the paralegal profession.]

Students will have two opportunities to attend:

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Sullivan Library, lower level

Speakers:

Lauren Asher – Family Law/previously Personal Injury – Louis I Waterman, PLLC

Mary Lisanby CKP – Estate Planning and Trust Administration – Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC

Melissa Reynolds, CKP – Criminal Litigation – Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney

Kim Roberts – Civil Defense Litigation – Gwin Steinmetz & Baird PLLC

OR

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Sullivan Library, lower level

Speakers:

Debra (Debi) Hickey, CKP – Criminal Prosecution – United States Attorney’s Office

Amy Hoagland – Healthcare Collection/Litigation – Fultz Maddox Hovious & Dickens PLC

Troy Schmitt, CKP – Commercial Litigation – Seiller Waterman LLC

Julie Rose Smith, BSBA, CKP – Family Law – Henry County Circuit Court

Claudia October #2

Fall and Halloween at Sullivan

Our Student Activities team has all kinds of activities planned for us for October and Halloween. This week we had a pumpkin carving contest in the A La Carte Cafe where students could carve their own pumpkins and display them:

 

Then there was a trip to a corn maze:

And a Halloween Bash:

The Trunk or Treat in the parking lot:

And the Horror Movie and Haunted House at Gardiner Point Resident Hall:

Claudia October #1

What Chefs Expect.

During a lecture a few weeks ago at school, Master Chef Jilleba gave some pointers to us students and it seemed like a good idea to share some of them.

In answer to the question of; "What do chefs expect of a new employee?"

• Positive attitude everyday.
• Team oriented, team positive, team cooperation 
• Punctual 
• Professionalism with peers, chefs, and customers
• Organization
• Drive and determination
• Basic skills (learned at school of course)
• Understanding of the relationship between waste in the kitchen and profit. 

All of these things were great to hear, and I know that they will help me in to future, along with several other students.  And they apply to more than just a culinary application.  They apply to anything you do, whether it be a desk job, or even school.  Keep them in mind!

Lauren S.

Back To Basics!

Officially in my fifth quarter here at Sullivan!  I have just started my last lab, and this will be my last academic quarter!  Do you want to know what my first test was over?... Making stock.

This is something that every first quarter learns in basics.  I thought I would have been done with this section of culinary... but nope. Here it is, four quarters later, creating an extremely daunting test.

Right before the test, my class prepped a stock demo to show the new quarters.  Then we went and sat in on the lecture and demo, my entire class furiously taking notes.  We all knew we would be tested over it.  But I noticed some of the new quarters weren't taking notes, some were even falling asleep.

Words of warning... even though you have made something before, or think you will remember it for next weeks test, doesn't mean you shouldn't take notes.  Here I am, a full year later, really happy I have my notes from my first quarter.  This stuff will come back to haunt you if you don't prepare.

So take notes! Lots of them! We all have to go back to basics!

- Lauren Steele