Send Acorn Employee to Disney World

Let's keep this a SURPRISE from Kathryn!!!

On this Friday night at Acorn, just four people filled the coffee shop before the usual late nights bustle begins. Kathryn, the Acorn force of nature who delivered my sandwich order with a good ole' heaping of Southern charm, struck up a conversation with me, and Lucy, the other Elon student a table away who was deep into her laptop.
"Where ya’ll from"? she asks so warmly.
Kathryn didn't have much to say about my hometown, a Philadelphia suburb, but she sure lit up when Lucy announced that she was from Florida.
"How long does it take to drive from here to Florida?” she demanded," And how much do you think that it would cost for me to take my family of five to Disney World"?
Kathryn's eyes filled with tears as she spilled out her biggest dream in life is to take her son, daughter-in-law, and two grandsons to Disney World.
"I just want that so badly", she confesses. I have never been anywhere but here.
Her parents were graduates of Elon back in the 50’s. It didn't take much longer for Lucy and me, to grasp the kind of hard work and dedication that Kathryn has brought to Elon throughout her ten years of service at our university. That same commitment is even more evident in the pictures and stories that we saw and heard that Friday night of her adorable grandsons Jeremy and Joshua.
It didn't take long for me, and for my new friend, Lucy, to appreciate the hard work and the sweetness that Kathryn has served up at every Elon dining shift that she has covered. It's five nights every week that you can count on her generous helping of down to earth sincerity and open friendliness served up with every plate she delivers.
At 2:00am, when the shift is over, Kathryn returns home to her beloved little dog, satisfied that everyone from the Elon community was taken care of with a smile.
Lucy and I hatched the idea to ask for donations to make this sweet woman's dream come true. Please help in any way big or tiny, it all adds up. It would send Kathryn and her family on their way. But let's keep this surprise on the down low from Kathryn.
Kathryn has no idea that her dream is about to be served up to her on an Elon silver platter.