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ADear Friends of the Priory,
As we near the end of another successful fundraising year, it’s time again to say thank you to all of you in this community who have made it successful. I would love to thank everyone individually, but there are so many of you that it would be darn near impossible to do so.
Sure, it would be simple enough to catch everyone here on campus to offer a quick thanks from the monastic community and faculty and staff (100% of whom support the annual fund).
And I do get to see quite a few Priory leaders, members of the Board of Trustees (another group at 100% giving), as they come in for various committee meetings, so I could also thank them personally.
At this time of year the school is literally buzzing, on a daily basis, with the activities of so many Priory parents who are Gala and theater volunteers that it’s difficult to count them all. I guess it would be possible to stop and thank each and every one of them, but then, they are so busy I don’t feel I should interrupt. I mean, I get dizzy watching this frenzied activity, all on behalf of the Priory.
But it’s from here on that this process of thanking everyone individually enters the realm of the impossible. The Priory Community and the number of folks who support it on an annual basis are rather extensive. Locally, the number of parents, grandparents, alumni parents, alumni, and friends is huge. And that doesn’t even begin to include the enormous numbers of Priory community members who live outside the Bay Area, nationally and internationally.
So let’s forget the impossible, embrace the reality, and leave it at this: I’ll try to thank as many people with whom I come in contact personally, but for all the others, please accept the overwhelming gratitude of all of here at Priory for your generous support again this year.
Sincerely,
John Baldwin
Director of Development
The Priory Community and the number of folks who support it on an annual basis are rather extensive. Locally, the number of parents, grandparents, alumni parents, alumni, and friends is huge.