Silver Shrimp bowl stolen during President's Ball
Saga employees searched Union Street for pricey dish; bowl found days later in dormitory
Juliana D'Amico
Issue date: 3/12/09 Section: News
Last year, a four-foot glass vase full of fruit was stolen at the President's Ball. This year at the ball, it was a silver bowl of shrimp.
Saga, Inc. catering manager Marty Morrison said the bowl was worth $150 and the shrimp was worth $75-$80.
Dell said the Student Activities Board realized the silver bowl was missing when they were cleaning up after the school-wide event.
Morrison informed Dell after he received a phone call from one of his employees.
"One of my employees calls me saying, 'This student is walking down the drive with the shrimp bowl; is she supposed to?' and I said no," Morrison said.
Morrison said employees are told to contact him first if they think there is a problem because he assigns the employees different tasks and only he knows what those tasks are.
However, running down the driveway with a big silver bowl of shrimp was not one of his assignments.
Morrison said by the time he came to the Howard Music Hall parking lot, the female students had gotten away and it was too dark to tell where they went.
"[Morrison] was concerned because it was an expensive bowl," Dell said. "It's fine if the shrimp went missing because someone had to eat it but we needed the bowl."
SAB looked for the bowl after receiving a tip that it was making its way to Union Street from the ball.
"I went looking for it and never found it, but one of the SAB volunteers saw it in one of the residence halls … and she brought it back to me the next day," Dell said.
Dell said she does not know who took the silver bowl and would prefer to not give the name of the SAB volunteer who returned it.
"In the future I would prefer if students would ask for the food and we'd happily give it without having our containers disappear," Dell said.
Morrison said he was surprised that a student at a college such as Hillsdale would think it would be alright to steal a bowl of shrimp.
Although the four-foot glass vase has never been recovered, the silver platter is safely back in the hands of Saga.
Saga, Inc. catering manager Marty Morrison said the bowl was worth $150 and the shrimp was worth $75-$80.
Dell said the Student Activities Board realized the silver bowl was missing when they were cleaning up after the school-wide event.
Morrison informed Dell after he received a phone call from one of his employees.
"One of my employees calls me saying, 'This student is walking down the drive with the shrimp bowl; is she supposed to?' and I said no," Morrison said.
Morrison said employees are told to contact him first if they think there is a problem because he assigns the employees different tasks and only he knows what those tasks are.
However, running down the driveway with a big silver bowl of shrimp was not one of his assignments.
Morrison said by the time he came to the Howard Music Hall parking lot, the female students had gotten away and it was too dark to tell where they went.
"[Morrison] was concerned because it was an expensive bowl," Dell said. "It's fine if the shrimp went missing because someone had to eat it but we needed the bowl."
SAB looked for the bowl after receiving a tip that it was making its way to Union Street from the ball.
"I went looking for it and never found it, but one of the SAB volunteers saw it in one of the residence halls … and she brought it back to me the next day," Dell said.
Dell said she does not know who took the silver bowl and would prefer to not give the name of the SAB volunteer who returned it.
"In the future I would prefer if students would ask for the food and we'd happily give it without having our containers disappear," Dell said.
Morrison said he was surprised that a student at a college such as Hillsdale would think it would be alright to steal a bowl of shrimp.
Although the four-foot glass vase has never been recovered, the silver platter is safely back in the hands of Saga.
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