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Twenty-four teams competed in the 2012 Gingerbread House Decorating Competition during the Winter Holiday Celebration for faculty and staff on Dec. 6 at Rome Commons.<\/p>\n
The theme of the celebration was the Roaring Twenties, in a nod to the 2012-13 UConn Reads book selection, The Great Gatsby<\/em> by F. Scott Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n First place went to a team from the School of Business Career Center, the Ginger Snaps, for a period house from the 1920s. The winning creation will be placed on display at Gulley Hall. Second place went to Five Golden Rings, a staff team from the Women’s Basketball program, and in third place was the UConn Reads team from the School of Business Management Department.<\/p>\n The judges were President Susan Herbst, her husband Doug Hughes, and Mun CHoi, interim provost.<\/p>\n The annual event is organized by University Events and Conference Events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The theme of the winter holiday celebration was the Roaring Twenties, in a nod to this year’s UConn Reads book selection, The Great Gatsby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":69851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-69843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:31:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70016,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69843\/revisions\/70016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/69851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69843"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=69843"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=69843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}