The First Congregational UCC unleashes its decades-long annual pancake supper tonight. With the recent passing of member Cecil Cox, the supper is again dedicated to him.Cecil faithfully and historically performed all manner of tasks for the church, including but by no means limited to keeping the bell in the steeple well-oiled. The Men's Club voted unanimously to let the festival of panned cakes bear Cecil's name, in honor of a great man who among other duties annually spearheaded the pancake supper. Thus it is written - in the annual ad in the local newspaper.
Many people come together to make this event the success it has long been in Waukesha. For the last few years the ladies of the church have had a sale of baked goods upstairs for the hungry customers to peruse as they wait for the line to progress downstairs to the dining hall. (A blind piano player used to offer zippy tunes to warm the crowd further, an old-time Waukesha piano-tuner named Harry Smith, who played for his pancake supper and any monetary contents in the vase on the upright piano-top, plus other funds afforded him by the Men's Club. It was a big night for Harry.)
Locally-famous personages are unobtrusively on display flipping pancakes and serving the teeming masses, dressed in aprons and chef-hatted mufti.
But what holds the affair together are the many hands - always, the hands -faithfully and joyfully pulling together to make the event what it is!
(May Cecil's, Harry's, and other departed but once very involved hands in the passing cavalcade, RIP)
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