“It was very colorful — and black,” Deb Cumming says of the birthday decor job.

Menasha employees contributed money and energy to give Branch Manager Deb Cumming a good-humored hard time over her recent birthday. “She was a good sport about it,” says BCSM Jill Scherg of the celebration on Dec. 4. “I think the customers had even more fun with it than we did.” Employees got Deb a gift certificate to her favorite restaurant, Red Lobster.

“There was so much to see and read. There were all different types of ‘over-the-hill’ jokes,” Deb says. “They got me a cane that says, ‘Tease me about my age and I’ll beat you with my cane.'”