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Black Tie Blue Jeans Ball raises $160,000 for scholarships
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More students will have the opportunity to get a quality education after Lyon College’s annual Black Tie Blue Jeans Ball raised more than $160,000 for student scholarships.
Lyon College awards $7 million annually in scholarships and grants to help students attend college. The money raised at Black Tie Blue Jeans will help underwrite a portion of this student assistance.
More than 300 people from Batesville, Little Rock, and surrounding cities and states attended the Black Tie Blue Jeans Ball. This is the second year for the event, which features a silent auction and live auction, a gourmet dinner, and live music and dancing. It is held at the Cow Palace at Chimney Rock in Concord.
Live auction items included a weeklong stay in the tropical Turks and Caicos Islands, a fully restored 1972 Volkswagen Beetle, an exquite piece of custom jewelry, a vacation in a ridge-top cabin in the Smokey Mountains, a golf or ski trip at a Michigan resort, a Bad Boy lawnmower, a handmade king-size quilt, a weekend at the races at Oaklawn, a gourmet dinner and private concert for 10 at the home of President and Mrs. Donald Weatherman, a weekend of pampering in Little Rock, a Memphis getaway including Club Level seats at a FedEx Forum event, a performance by the Lyon College Pipe Band, and a Black Angus heifer. More than 75 silent auction items ranged from student artwork to hunts to golf course memberships and even a large generator.
Lyon College Vice President for Institutional Advancement Jon Vestal said 100 percent of Lyon students receive some amount of scholarship. “This year, with the help of our sponsors and guests, we surpassed our $150,000 dollar goal,” he said. “The money raised will go toward the Lyon College Annual Scholarship Fund. Our alumni and friends know the quality of a Lyon education and came to support our students.”
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1) Laura Winters, Kaitlyn Duncan, Madeline Roberts, Callie Boyce, Robbi Riggs, and Maggie Hance 2) Bidders enjoy the live auction 3) Mary and Robert Young 4) Jon and Maegan Vestal and Lynn Weatherman 5) Lucy Yeager, Mary Eleanor Mosley, and Carolyn Peiserich 6) Brien Nix Hall, Donald Weatherman, and Julea Garner 7) Ricky and Cindy Davis and Chris and David Heringer 8) Raymond LaCroix, Patrick Mulick, and Diane LaCroix 9) Landon Downing and Jon-Michael Poff 10) Perry Wilson and Jennifer Vess Spring 2013
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