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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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