“I suppose some people wonder why a company should celebrate a birthday. Too many companies, of course, celebrating a birthday—unless it’s a fiftieth or one-hundredth—would seem ridiculous because a company that deals only with things really has nothing to celebrate on its birthday. A company such as yours, however, that is made up of people…and progressing because of people…has something significant to celebrate when its birthday rolls around. We are celebrating birthdays for a great many people. It is your birthday and mine as well as Tupperware’s, and each successive birthday marks a star of growth—not just company growth, but growth of the individuals who make up our company. Tupperware’s growth is your growth. You too, can have, in Tupperware, ‘More Than You Ever Dreamed.’” –Brownie Wise, Sparks Newsletter (to Tupperware Sales Force), April 1956
…we’re celebrating Brownie’s love of all things tropical and glamorous.
Each May, we celebrate our Birthday Month, mostly because Brownie Wise’s birthday was May 25, 1913. This year, as we celebrate 68 years of the Tupperware party, we’re celebrating Brownie’s love of all things tropical and glamorous. Brownie herself moved (with her son and her mother, Rose Humphrey) from Detroit to the Miami area in 1950, selling Tupperware and a variety of other products through a company called Patio Parties.
When Earl Tupper appointed her as general sales manager of Tupperware Home Parties on May 7, 1951, she began her work on convincing him to locate the headquarters in beautiful Florida. She would have preferred being nearer the beach, and personally sought out land along the coast, but Earl preferred the cheaper lands of Central Florida.
Brownie could see the appeal of a budding tourism industry along the Orange Blossom Trail. Gatorland, which remains next door neighbor to the headquarters, had just opened in 1949. Brownie wanted the headquarters, and surrounding areas, to be a real vacation destination for all the Tupperware dealers to enjoy coming with their families.
On May 30, 1952, the land deal for the Orlando property was announced. From the beginning, Brownie knew the importance of making the headquarters beautiful, hiring master landscaper M.J. Daetwyler. In 1955, he bred a very special bloom for Brownie: the Brownie Wise Hibiscus.
Why a hibiscus? In the early 1940s, Brownie Wise contributed regularly to the Detroit News’ Experience Column (is there anything she couldn’t do?!). Her pen name was Hibiscus. In 1954, when her mother, Rose Humphrey, who relocated Patio Parties from South Florida to Orlando, it took on the name Hibiscus Sales.
What would your pen name be?
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Today, we continue to honor Brownie’s memory and remarkable impact on women around the world. If you’ve ever been to a Tupperware party, you’re part of this legacy. And now you know why, if you Host a party this month, your amazing, exclusive rewards bear the tropical symbol of our beloved Brownie.
Comment on our May 10, 2016 Facebook post (http://facebook.com/tupperwareusca), answering the question “what would your pen name be?” for your chance to win a Tropical Glamour Lunch Set. Comments must be submitted by May 12, 2016 at 12:01am ET.
No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the United States or Canada. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. Total prize value is $35 USD/$42 CAD. Three winners will be randomly selected. Winners will be announced by May 13, 2016.
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I have been trying for months to get an item that was shorted from a party that I had in November. The rep will not return my phone calls. The missing item was a packet of seasoning. I am frustrated and would like my customer to finally get the product she paid for.
I’ll help you if no one as ! Tupperlyyours@aol.com
Eraw Repput…..would be my pen name…..I am a male consultant… and I love what I do…..(it Tupperware spelled backwards)
Shooting star
Mine would be “Rosie” ? never thought of a last name
Mine would be seapupp (because I am known as seapupp and I like seapups). I also remember Tuppy the seal (please bring him back?)
Please bring back the “Wasabi Ranch Seasoning Blend”! ! ! Thanks
My pen name would be, and is, McNally. For Tupperware I would choose Talk by TableTupp..
I know its past the contest dradline, but I love sharing all my stories regarding my journey with Tupperware. 32+ years ago, I thought of myself as “The Tupperware Lady”. At first that’s how many people introduced me. Before long, they were introducing me as “my Tupperware lady”. When I got my first computer and opened my AOL account, I did use “Your Tupperware Lady for my signature. Before long, again, I realized that I wanted my tagline to reflect how people referred to me. That was as “my Tupperware lady”. So I changed my screen name, my emails, my signature, and everything else to “My Tupperlady”. My Tupperlady has been my persona for almost 20 years now. I love it! Thank you, Tupperware! (But that’s a whole other story!) <3 Rosalie McKinney, Manager
Love this Rosalie! Thanks for sharing!
Love your Story Rosalie! I sometime call myself your friendly Tupperware Lady 🙂 Much $uccess to you!
Tupperware is….GREAT!!!