Senate
Guilfordian
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Senate to Realize Auction
Friday night will mark another
first for Guilford College. With
the aid of professional auctioneer
Bill Langley, area merchants and
the college sodality, the Com
munity Senate has organized a
Service Auction geared to unite
the campus with the surrounding
community and to raise money
for the student-funded loan pro
gram. Sprung from an idea con
tributed by Bill and Bev Rogers,
tomorrow's affair promises to be
a success on both counts.
Three types of sales are
available at the Friday night
spectacular: a yard-quick sale
with small items to be purchased
at a set price, a silent auction
which requires written bids for a
transfer of goods, and the coup de
grace-the hawking of various
merchandise at an open auction.
The items range from paid vaca
Your Money's
The following items will be auctioned at ran
dom on January 28th. They are divided into four
categories (Gold, Bronze, Silver and Dinners)
for your convenience. Additional items will most
probably be added. Doors open at 8:15 for flea
market, silent bidding, and browsing through
items to be auctioned.
GOLD
5 day, 4 night vacation for two at Mid Pines Golf
and Tennis Resort
100 gallons of fuel oil
Any 3 rooms of carpet professionally cleaned
One year's membership at Metropolitan Health
Spa
One year's membership at Spa Lady
One year's bronze membership at Sportime Ra
quet and Athletic Club
Solid brass table lamp
3 gram, 14k gold pendant
One year membership at Guilford College
Y.M.C.A.
Florida Keys Vacation: 2 nights, 3 days at
Cheeca Lodge (good for two people between June
1-December 20, 1983)
Become "Academic Dean for a Day"
Vacation at a Smith Mountain Lake cottage
Scenic flight over Greensboro for three people
20 hours of babysitting
SILVER
Benjamin Miracord stereo turntable
Automobile tune-up
Two $50.00 gift certificates for Blue Bell
Bell Tour-Lite bicycle helmet
Sear's "Touch-On" table lamp
Two directors chairs
Canoe trip for two, complete with picnic lunch
10 private dog-training lessons (two sets)
Scenic airplane ride around Pilot Mountain
(Herb Poole in the cockpit)
30 minute performance by the Guilford College
Quartet
10 hours of voice lessons from Choir Director Ed
Lowe
Two 4" x 3" ads in the Guilfordian
Three hour-long tennis lessons from Elwood
Parker
BRONZE
$20.00 gift certificate to Gilliam's Florist
$15.00 gift certificate to Hickory Farms
tions to a bicycle helmet and the
services are as varied as the
students, faculty and staff who
donated them. Of special interest
to hungry students will be the
wide selection of dinners, both off
and on campus, offered to the
highest bidder. As some of these
dinners serve a number of peo
ple, Roger Pettingell President of
the Community Senate has noted
that groups of students have
begun pooling their finances to
afford themselves a good chance
at capturing the epicurian feasts.
(Please see below for a listing of
most goods and services
available through the open auc
tion.)
Since a primary goal of the Ser
vice Auction is to generate
monies for the student-initiated
loan fund, a one dollar donation is
necessary to enter the gala. Con
House painting kit
SIO.OO gift certificate to Laurie's House Clothing
Store
Wilson "Jimmy Conner's Champion" tennis
racket
Haircut and facial make-over from Guilford's
Jennie Montgomery
Saturday morning spring cleaning done by
Alumni office
Basement/Garage cleaning done by two
students
Four car cleanings, inside and out, by Guilford
students
Load of laundry (washed & ironed)
Professionally typed term paper
Hand-knitted scarf (buyer picks color and style)
Three hours of professional editorial consulta
tion and/or editing or proofreading done by Jea
neane Williams
Unisonic electric pocket calculator
Assistant to help student move out in May
DINNERS
MERCHANT DINNERS
The Elms - dinner for four (excluding alcoholic
beverages)
Swain's Charcoal Steak House - dinner for two
Huck's Restaurant - dinner for two
Lox, Stock and Bagel - dinner for four
Apple House Cafeteria - four $3.00 gift cer
tificates
FACULTY /STAFF
Progressive dinner for 10 - Student Services
Southern Country Dinner for 8 - The Ralls and
the Farlows
French Dinner for 6 - Bruce Stewart and Jea
neane Williams
Mexican Dinner for 4-6 - The Clarks and the
Davis'
Chinese Meal for 4 - Dan Fredricks and Clay
Cunningham
Elegant Dinner for 4 (Students only) - Ed Lowe
Indian Dinner - Kathy Adams and Robert
DooLittle
Seafood Dinner for 2 - Jay Van Tassel
Dinner for 2 - Bill and Bev Rogers (includes a
chauffered drive in the Rogers' 1932 Rolls
Royce)
Candlelight Dinner for One Male - (Trustees
welcome) - served by fun-lovin' Guilford Gal
tributions and bids are hoped by
the Senate to raise $2,500 to place
in the loan program. Although
this amount may seem im
probable, the Service Auction
was strategically planned for the
evening when both the Alumni
Board and the Board of Trustees
meet at Guilford for their
quarterly meetings. As it is on the
agenda of both gatherings to at
tend the auction, the College will
hopefully continue to receive the
support of these groups, this time
in monetary form.
Raising money, however, is not
the sole purpose of the Service
Auction. Equally important is the
creation of a social event to en
courage the interaction of
students, trustees and other
members of the community in a
relaxed atmosphere.
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by Roger Pettingell
President, Community Senate
Were you confused when you
heard that the proceeds from the
"Guilford College Community
Senate Service Auction" were go
ing towards the "Guilford College
Community Senate Student Loan
Fund?" If so, then I must
apologize for being so long
winded in naming Senate-related
programs! Everything is really
quite simple to understand:
students needed money to attend
Guilford, so the Senate created a
loan program to help them.
Perhaps that is a little over
simplified....
It all began a little less than a
year ago, in March to be exact,
when a group of us from Guilford
attended the National Student
Lobby Day in Washington. The
focus of the gathering was to lob
by against the proposed cutbacks
in federal financial aid. We
returned to Guilford feeling in
vigorated and ready to stand up
for our beliefs. We organized let
ter writing campaigns. We held
meetings with other college and
university student leaders, and
we invited our elected officials to
come to campus and explain their
actions.
Though some cuts were made
in Federal Aid dollars, we felt en
couraged by the responses which
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we received. We then realized
that the next step was to put our
money where our mouths were.
Thus, the loan program was born.
The Community Senate made a
$12,500 challenge-pledge to the
loyalty fund, with the understan
ding that for every two dollars
raised over the Loyalty Fund's
initial goal of $375,000 (up to
$400,000), the Senate will give one
dollar. The $37,500 raised in this
fashion will become the seed
money for the Guilford College
Community Senate Loan Fund.
So far we have been very pleas
ed with the successes which our
program has had. We have
received much publicity (both
local and national). The White
House has contacted us to ex
press the President's apprecia
tion, and we have received a few
substantial gifts from private
donors.
This year's final approach to
raising money for the Loan Fund
is through this service auction.
This event truly represents the
community's support of the
Senate's decision to help its peers
finance their education. We could
not have an event such as this
without the many contributions of
goods, services, and volunteer
time that we have received.
I invite and encourage you to
have a good time and to support
this valuable cause.