BROTHER TIMOTHY LEGACY -- "CHANGE ONE, CHANGE A THOUSAND".

Make Your Bid to Support our Annual Scholarship Fund!

The Lasallian Education Fund's First On-Line Auction is now open!  The auction will run from March 18, 2009 to May 29,2009.

Auction items include spectacular guided tours in Rome, Tuscany and Australia and a several wonderful vacation getaways. There are 35  collector wine offerings of 1.5L bottles of Napa and Sonoma Wines and dinners with two of Napa Valley Vintners.

Tell your friends, family, and community. Let the bidding begin!

This year, the Lasallian Education Fund and our Gala Committee have decided to take a new approach to our Brother Timothy Legacy "Change One, Change One Thousand" charitable gala celebration.  In view of the economy and the time demands upon many of us, we have decided to change the previously announced April 23, 2009 event and go "Party Light" for 2009.  As a result, we are going to hold a charitable fundraiser without the party, and, in lieu thereof, we ask you for your contribution to support an extremely important legacy and mission. 

In the Napa Valley we have a lot of charitable events, but this time we are going to suggest you save your resources and time in attending this particular traditional event, and, instead, place your heart and pocketbook into a charitable contribution which will have little "overhead" and "party expense" associated with it.

With our "Party Light" approach we have designed three ways you can support Lasallian Education Fund:

• A donation to Scholarship Funds 
  
• A purchase of Brother Timothy Wine
  
• Purchasing something on our exclusive on-line silent auction

  

Memorial celebration for the Brother Timothy Campaign bronze plaque and donor wall will be held during in the fall of 2009 (date/details to be advised).   All gifts to this scholarship drive above $2,500 will be recognized on the donor wall to be permanently displayed at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. 

Please help us reach our goal of $787,500 to support these 63 legacy students.  We will confirm and share our success with you after May 15.

With our deepest gratitude for your support,

Margaret Duckhorn               Michael Mulcahy

2009 Honoree                       President

The future for a Legacy Scholarship Student... A Lasallian success story:

"My goal was to get out of the ghetto; to rise above crime, poverty and the shame that went with it. I believed education would give me dignity and self-respect. And I can tell you it has."      --Tammy Ramos, alumna

Meet Tammy Ramos. Tammy grew up in extreme poverty, the child of a single, drug-afflicted prostitute. After falling through the cracks in public schools, she became a participant in the High Potential Program at a Lasallian school. 

Her first reaction to being accepted to the program was shock. "I looked around the beautiful, lush campus and thought, what in the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. It's only a matter of time until they realize that I am not one of them. I don't have a loving, supportive family to go home to on holidays. I have foster parents who don't want me, a step-dad in prison and a dead mother. And, I am not smart. I scored a 580 on the SATs." 

Fast forward to the future and Tammy is a lawyer and teacher. She graduated from college with a 3.41 GPA and a triple major in Economics, Business Administration and Spanish. Later she went to one of the nation's top law schools, graduated, passed the bar and began practicing law. Today she consults, volunteers and teaches at Lasallian schools.