Sweet Valentine’s
Freshman raises money from cookie sale to send sister to camp

By Kelly Marino
Staff Reporter

Valentine’s Day will be a red-letter day for the Williams family and for Colby Hall residents who will be picking up their Girl Scout cookies.

For Juliana Williams, a freshman ballet and modern dance major, Feb. 14 concludes another year of serious fund raising. For her sister, Sabrina Williams, the date marks the beginning of a countdown — the number of days until she leaves for summer camp.

Special to the Skiff Juliana Williams hugs her 15-year-old sister, Sabrina Williams. Juliana Williams helped Sabrina Williams sell 408 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to pay for a horseback riding camp.

And it was that countdown that motivated this family to sell, sell, sell. And encouraged several TCU students to buy, buy, buy.

When Juliana Williams heard her sister wanted to attend another summer of horseback riding camp, she decided she would do all she could to help raise the money. With this in mind, she posted a form in Colby Hall and encouraged students to buy Girl Scout cookies.

Juliana Williams and her mother teamed up and sold a total of 408 boxes, raising enough money for her sister to enjoy her summer.

Sabrina Williams, a 15-year-old high school freshman with Down syndrome, said she is looking forward to the Bette Perot Girl Scout Camp near Tyler where she has the opportunity to be involved in what she loves.

Amanda Warren, a sophomore nursing major, bought 13 boxes of cookies.

Warren said Girl Scout cookies are her favorite so she likes to buy them in bulk.

“I think it is wonderful way to raise money,” Warren said. “ I always love to help out with a cause, and I didn’t even know that I was.”

Students do not have as much of an opportunity to buy Girl Scout cookies, Juliana Williams said.

“I think that is one of the reasons we were so successful on campus,” she said.

Sabrina Williams is a part of a Girl Scout organization run by the Tejas Council in North Texas. Every year the organization sells Girl Scout cookies for $3 a box. She has been a part of the organization since she was in kindergarten. Even though most of the troop broke up when she was in 7th grade, Sabrina Williams continues to participate.

Glenda Williams, Juliana and Sabrina’s mother, said Sabrina Williams take great pride in the 100 boxes she was able to sell by herself this year.

“This is the biggest sell Sabrina has ever done,” Glenda Williams said. “This will help decrease her expenses for camp this summer.”

The cookie drive began Jan. 6 and ended Jan. 25.

“Sabrina enjoys selling cookies,” Juliana Williams said. “She will come to school to bring me the cookies that everyone ordered and we will go around and hand them out together.”

Sabrina Williams will collect the money owed for the cookies when she delivers the boxes to Colby Hall Feb 14.

Kelly Marino
k.a.marino@student.tcu.edu