Dressed convincingly as a leprechaun, Piedmont’s Campus Activities Board president Gabriel Gutierrez greets 5-month old Kaiden Crawford — aka “Uncle Si” — during the college’s Trunk-Or-Treat event on October 30. Kaiden is the son of Piedmont’s Director of Student Life, Kim Crawford.
Little trick-or-treaters who visited the Piedmont College campus Friday were greeted by a fully-grown leprechaun, dressed in his velvety green top hat and matching coat; the handsome “Hans” from the movie “Frozen” looking distinguished in his tailored evening jacket; a pair of white-coated “mad scientists,” waving glass vials that poured multi-colored smoke; and a happy, six-foot, furry, “Leo the Lion” – official mascot for the college – who never spoke, but posed for photos with anyone who asked.
For the first time, costumed college students and administrators held a Trunk-or-Treat event outdoors in a campus parking lot – with parked cars turned so their open trunks offered decorated backdrops for the characters – who gave Halloween candy to the nearly 250 neighborhood children who visited.
Kim Crawford, Director of Student Life at the college, said that in the past the college hosted a haunted house for the area’s children, but this year’s Trunk-or-Treat was such a success that it will be repeated next year. “Absolutely!” she said. Her planning involved 50 student volunteers, some of whom were costumed candy-givers, and some participated in other ways.
There was already a line of trick-or-treating children waiting at 5:00 p.m. Friday, she said, although the starting time was actually 5:30.
Mark Jestel, Director of Residential Education, was the “Hans” character – standing at one of the first “trunks” children visited – actually a black car so covered with “spider web” that its white matched his jacket. He echoed Crawford’s optimism about planning another Halloween Trunk-or-Treat. Smiling at the group of costumed neighborhood children, he said, “I’m glad we had a good turnout.”
Community Trunk-or-Treat
Piedmont College
Demorest, GA
October 30, 2015
Photos by A.N. Williams
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