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Secret Santa scores plenty of extra points

South Bend Tribune

December 2009

With our community exhausted from yet another University of Notre Dame coaching change, many of us have moved on to focus on what we need to do to prepare for the holidays, finding we hardly have time to breathe.

On Dec. 17, someone and his friends took a breath of a moment to make this holiday incredible for those so often forgotten. Santa, red suit, beard, black belt and boots, accompanied by several elves, surprised the Young Adult Services special needs students at Eggleston Center. The students visited excitedly with the jolly old guy, honored to accept the gifts he brought for each of them. As they filed into the hall to return to class, beaming and clinging to their treasures, one of them proudly said, "Santa is Charlie Weis!"

From all of us at Eggleston Center I would like to thank Charlie and the elves from Hannah and Friends for making this Christmas season extraordinarily bright.

Suzanne Elliott
South Bend