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Why Cookies?
Because...Well, Because
Of A Memory.
It started in her kitchen
many years ago; Carolyn's husband Doug and their three grade
school sons were around the kitchen table "carrying
on". A Kansas snowstorm was blowing outside. Carolyn was baking
cookies. At the time, Carolyn had no idea where this event would
take her or how it would affect her. Doug has since passed on,
the boys have grown, the kitchen in the farmhouse has been updated
and expanded. "The only thing that looks the same" she says, "is
the snow."
"I think I picked cookies
because when I recall this memory, I can still hear the happy
banter of my family, smell the aroma of freshly baked cookies,
and hear the winds that were building snowdrifts outside. Most
of all I remember the feeling of warmth and coziness that surrounded
us all."
A few years after that night while working as a secretary, Carolyn
realized that she wanted to own her own cookie company. She worked
as a secretary by day and mixed up cookie dough out of that same
farmhouse kitchen by night. She did this week in and week out for
several years. Through right and wrong business decisions she persisted,
stayed determined and got constant support from Doug. In 1988 she
quit her secretarial job and followed her dream full time.
When she outgrew her
farmhouse kitchen, she rented a tiny house at the edge of Little
River. The business continued to grow, and a couple of years
later she bought and renovated a larger building on Main Street
that had been vacant for 30 years. In 1995 she started marketing
her "Little Ol' Cookie House" cookie
dough to organizations just like yours. She built her company
on two basic philosophies:
• "We Treat
Our Customers As Our Friends."
• "We Make
Simply The Finest Cookie Dough."
By applying these philosophies,
and with the help of her dedicated staff, family, and "Treating Our Customers As Our Friends",
her business continues to grow and prosper.
Throughout all the years a framed credo has hung in her office.
It's the one she lives by, and especially during the tough times,
those were the words that always pulled her through.
"Nothing in the world
can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge said
it-Carolyn Wright lives
it.
Basically that's how
her company started and has grown, but there's still more history
behind all this. Carolyn grew up in Wichita , Kansas . She married
Doug, her high school sweetheart in 1963, and they were blessed
with three sons. How she ended up in Little River is to begin
to know her husband Doug. One day in 1972 he came home and exclaimed "Honey, pack the kids and our clothes,
we're moving to Little River." Earlier that day he bought 160 acres
of farm ground and a big old farm house on a handshake and a prayer.
The elderly couple he bought from wanted their land to go to a
family-a family with kids to be raised on their farm. (God bless
Clyde and Madge Rush.) Even though this new farm life was hard
work and completely different than anything they had ever done,
it was an exciting adventure and one of the best gifts that Doug
gave to his family.
In 1998, the same year that Carolyn's cookie business made its
first profit, Doug passed away. You see, Doug lived his life with
constant pain from injuries he received in an automobile accident
as a teenager. Carolyn knows without a doubt that his pain and
death, and her successful business efforts, were more than a mere
coincidence. She knows that God gave her a way to make a living
now that Doug was gone. When asked where she got the power to be
so persistent and so determined through those tough years, she
says it came from her love for Doug. They both had worked hard
to make a life, and raise their three sons. Those three boys who
had bantered with their dad around a small kitchen table in the
middle of a snowstorm years ago, and had embedded such a strong
memory for her, have grown to become three good men.
God continues to bless
Carolyn and her family with a growing and thriving business;
a business that is committed to helping worthy causes-just like yours-attain
their financial goals. She accompanies those beliefs with a business
philosophy of commitment, service, and quality.
Carolyn's "Little Ol' Cookie house" is located in Little River,
Kansas, a town of approximately 500 people. She has about a dozen
full-time employees. Although the production facility is larger
and more automated, her staff continues to mix up "Simply The Finest
Cookie Dough"...just like Carolyn mixed by hand in her country
kitchen. If you're ever in this area, please stop by. Our friendly
family and staff are always happy to talk with "Our Customers,
Our Friends".
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