Saratoga High School student Ian McCallister, 17, begins to form a bowl on a ceramics wheel for the school's fourth annual Souper Bowl fundraiser.
Souper Bowl
By Rebecca Ray
Photographs by Kathy De La Torre
For the fourth year in a row, ceramics teacher Leah Aguayo and the advanced ceramics students at Saratoga High School "threw," as in made, high-fire stoneware and porcelain bowls for their annual Souper Bowl. At the fundraiser event, which was scheduled to take place on March 21, in the school cafeteria, members of the public bought bowls for $10 each to fill with all the soup, ice cream or French bread they could eat. The soups, known as "Mrs. Aguayo's Famous Soups," were made from scratch by Aguayo and parent volunteers, and included minestrone, split pea, potato corn chowder and chicken noodle.
Souper Bowl: More photos of Saratoga High School's advanced ceramics class.
Donors didn't have to go home with messy bowls, either--after they feasted out of them, they could wash them in a tub of water at a "washing station."
Aguayo and the students threw 122 bowls during one school day and planned to throw at least 200 bowls for the Souper Bowl.
"It's a time for the students to share those skills with the school and community," Aguayo said.
Donations benefited the ceramics program.
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