2009 Movie Benefit Coming Soon!

One of the highlights of my work at DeLaSalle is meeting many of our friends and supporters at our Annual Movie Benefit. This year's Benefit will be November 12 at AMC Town Center 20, with food and drinks beginning at 6:00 pm.
This is the nineteenth annual Movie Benefit! Isn't that amazing? The event is very successful. We typically raise over $200,000 and draw 600 people!
Last year's event was special for me because it was the first time my wife, Karol, joined me. She did not want to attend prior year events because she knew that I worked the crowd and was usually involved in helping with the details of the event. I'd often leave her at a table by herself and rejoin her twenty minutes later. That's no fun for anybody!
But now that Vanessa Van Goethem-Piela and her wonderful development staff do such a fantastic job of making this such an incredible evening, I'm more free to simply meet and greet people. So Karol joined me last year, and maybe will join me again on November 12, 2009.
In the picture above you will see Karol and me in the center, with our great friends and supporters, John and Patricia Kurtz to the left, and Carol and Al Brooks to the right. John Kurtz is a selfless attorney who works on behalf of the poor and marginalized; Patricia Kurtz is an Oxford graduate, English teacher and former KCSD Board member; Carol Brooks is the matriarch of a large and talented family; and Al Brooks is former City Councilman, Mayor-pro tem, and founder of the Ad Hoc Group Against Crime.
Hope to see you this year at this amazing event!