Page 7 - Priorities #16 2001-February

Online Auction Preview!
Go to www.woodsidepriory. com and click on “auction” under the “events” banner for auction items and event details.
Win the Raffle!
Only 300 raffle tickets will be sold.
Call Virginia Taylor, (650) 598-9181 or buy
at school.
Fund a Project!
Support a special need. Cards will be at the dinner tables.
suspense and the laughter as auction master Tim Molak (Headmaster Molak in his non-Renaissance life) directs the live auction bidding.
A sampling of special auction items include the following, said Michelle Green, Solicitations Chair:
• Three nights at Venice’s most renowned hotel, the historic Danielli. This fin de siècle hostelry’s guestbook includes such names as Dickens, Ruskin, Wagner, Debussy, Proust, George Sand and Alfred de Musset. In addition to the history and ideal location, its rooftop restaurant provides what may be the ideal view of the Venetian lagoon. Could this be the perfect spot to enjoy Carnival 2002?
• Attend a retreat to deepen one’s
relationship with nature and self. A
party of four will spend three days and
two nights on the incomparable Marin coast, hiking and exploring by day and sleeping in a yurt or tent overlooking the lights of Santa Rosa to the east and the ocean to the west. The retreat is led by Michael Eller, a noted outdoor leadership trainer and expert photographer, who blends contemporary Western counseling and Native American traditions.
• Go on an African safari-a fantastic overnight inSouthernCalifornia. ActressTippiHedren’s Shambala Preserve shelters lions, tigers and elephants. You will enjoy a feather bed in a safari tent, a romantic dinner and a midnight walk with your hostess.
• Enjoy a tasting of monastic cheeses and international wines—a party for 20 guests. The specially selected treats are from the US, Canada and Europe, and your hosts will be Father Pius, and DougandBarbaraAyer. (Dougisdirectorof
development; if Barbara isn’t internationally famous for her catering, she should be.)
• Take the family for a week on the lake at Tahoe with facilities for eight. Or, take a week’s vacation in a wonderful Nantucket cottage on the Massachusetts coast.
If you have entertaining to do, youcan’tbeat FatherMartinandAl Ebneter’s cioppino dinner for 24, Father Maurus’s duck dinner for 20, or Father Martin’s lobster dinner for 20.
As always, there will be treats in every price range, with items for every need and every taste. Everybody will find treasures to bid on and take home. Computers and high-tech gear; tickets to everything; sports equipment and lessons; certificates to restaurants and clubs and spas; baskets of goodies;
family portraits and driving lessons; precious jewels and an heirloom quilt; consulting services of every kind—they’re all there among the hundreds of items listed in the auction program and supplement.
People can spend without pangs of conscience because the cause is close to everyone’s heart. Excellent faculty and small class size make a difference in every student’s life.
Auction proceeds go directly into the operating budget and are essential income. Last year, 15% of Woodside Priory’s school budget was funded by gifts, including auction profits.
“This is our one big fund- raiser and our biggest social event. It is a time to see alumni and their families again and a time for us
all to come together for a celebration. I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone there,” says Tim Molak, headmaster.
school’s
great
Father Martin’s seventeenth Tall Clock, in the traditional grandfather clock style, is a one-of-a kind masterpiece in black walnut.
The Grand Ballroom is a vision of a Renaissance masquerade with costumes and masks and colorful trappings.