A Night to Remember- Cystic Fibrosis Masquerade

Who doesn’t love doing community service on a Friday night?! On Friday October 23^rd a handful of our sisters, led by Jess Kane, our community service chair, volunteered at the Masquerade Ball on the Moshulu Restaurant which benefited our national philanthropy, The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. An hour before we were supposed to leave, an older sister had all the volunteering sisters over her apartment to eat cookies and help each other look good for the first taste of Halloween this year. In her purple wig and poufy tutu, Lauren Mukalian took over painting beautiful swirling designs on her sisters’ faces, while Ali Pasquarello helped me stick jewels all around the right side of my face! Finally, decked out in crazy wigs, striped socks, and cat ears, we were ready for our drive down to Penn’s landing. Even though we were so happy just to go and volunteer, we had never expected to have just as much fun as all the guest there! Some sisters worked their salesmen skills by selling raffles to amazing donated baskets, such as flyers tickets, gym memberships, and even a Wii! Meanwhile, Kate Montgomery and I worked our own magic on the wine toss table, where guests paid to toss rings onto wine bottles and if they won, they would take the bottle home with them. Fortunately for us, this ring toss was not rigged like the one at carnivals and we ended up giving away every bottle donated! One guest, dressed as a milkmaid and accompanied by his wife the cow, played so much he won six bottles!
The night was filled with dancing guests, wonderful food, and even a costume contest. We all had so much fun meeting people, bonding with our sisters, and helping out a great cause that is so near to Delta Phi Epsilon. We left the event at 2 am with nothing but smiles on our faces and laughter in the air and with eager wishes of repeating the same event next year!
--Sim Jalon, Nu Class