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Welcome to the Final Gala Edition of the Buzz!
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Thank you for making our Gala such a success!
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Letter from the Chairs
Our "Knight Around the World" was truly an amazing evening of fellowship and fundraising for our wonderful school. We brought in just over $60,000 and came out with about $37,000 profit for our PTO to spend on school enhancements for our students. Included in that total amount was $6,500 for our "fund a need" that will go to ipads, white boards, and a laminator as well as nearly $1,000 for things for the classrooms through the Giving Tree. Thank you all for your tremendous generosity.
We had a sold out event and everyone contributed to making the evening such a fun and warm environment. Guests leisurely tasted international foods while bouncing back and forth between chatting with friends and bidding on auction items. Our entertaining Ms. B really set the tone for a fun night as our emcee and our professional auctioneer, Chris Rasmus, drove up the bidding with his fast talk. He got people so excited about the carpool pass that we sold three at $725 each!
We have so many people to thank for the great success of this event, but wanted to especially highlight the wonderful team that supported us throughout the planning. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Sharon Driscoll who managed the ticket sales, Rachel Kramer for organizing the 50/50 raffle, Cathy Seangio and Peter Cuenco for running our dessert auction, Alexis Greshock for a whole host of duties from decorations to invitations, and Ida Smith for providing support at school and with the auction.
In appreciation of your support,
Eileen Bliss, Michele Robbins, and Heather Terreri
2017 Gala Chairs
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Top Auction Items
The Yaglou's New Hampshire lake house went for $1,425
A framed autographed picture of Muhammad Ali and the Beatles went for $1,350
Two roundtrip plane tickets to Orlando and four tickets to Disney World went for $1,300
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Class Winners
Pizza Day went to 6th, 2nd, and 8th grades
Super Day went to 1st, 5th, and 7th grades
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50/50 Raffle Results
We sold $7,080 in raffle tickets to make for a great pot for our lucky winner, Sharon Plattner. Congratulations to Jonah Driscoll who sold the most raffle tickets. He received two tickets to 6 Flags for his awesome work.
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Thank You! Gracias! Merci! Arigato! Danke! Spasiba! Mahalo!
 Thank you to our school and parish staff - Mrs. Rowley and the PTO, the faculty for the incredible experiences they donated, Fr. Fisher, Donna and Laura in the office, Therese Ryan for arranging the youth ministry volunteers, Don Cotton for use of his choir room, James and Paul for all the heavy lifting in setting and cleaning up, Laura Meade for finding the auctioneer and assisting with the AV equipment, and Carla Yaglou for so many things!
Thanks to all of those great bakers and generous people who donated delicious desserts. We raised $1425 from our dessert auction!
Thank you to everyone who donated items to the auction and helped solicit businesses for donations. We sincerely appreciate the wonderful work of our room parents to organize the class baskets. The Kindergarten Lego basket brought in the most at $360.
Thank you for those who worked on all of our publications, especially Rosie McGuire who got the word out regularly through our special Gala Buzz editions. Thanks to Tien Dao for the video presentation, Dawn Westphal for printing the program, Anne Fox for the website, Alexis Greshock for the invites, and Donna Vasilakos for the church bulletins.
Thank you to all those who worked the event from set-up to check-in to food stations and the bar - Margaret and Rob Kelty, Stephanie and Doug Thornton, Sharon and Kevin Driscoll, the whole Smith Family, DJ Terreri, Chris Robbins, Mike Bliss, Rebecca Billups, Kristi Howard, Maryellen and Sean De Wolfe, Mark and Emily English, Trish Konczal, Viviana Gonzalez, Leslie Payne, Bill and Carla Yaglou, and Kati Kreuger. We know there were many helping hands at the end of the night to clean up so a hats off to all of you!
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