Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Faulkner University Volleyball Awareness Dinner


Last night was the Faulkner Volleyball Awareness Dinner. We had a great time visiting with friends and family! The Volleyball team raised over $3,000 through ticket sales and the silent auction for breast cancer research! Praise God!!!

Doug Amos (the MC and a good friend)
Kim Hendrix (the keynote speaker and local news anchor for WSFA)
Me and Addie (my granddaughter)

(the cutest baby ever...but I am a little biased! :)
do notice the breast cancer ribbon on her dress!

Paul (my son-in-law), Me, Addie, and Anna (my daughter)

Addie with "T", the Assistant Coach who co-organized the event.
She's one of Addie's favorite friends!

Addie and Tori (the head Volleyball coach) and some team mates

Mr. What's-His-Name (Terry Brown, who Anna started calling this when she was a child!) and now "Little What's her Name"!
Addie figured out his face was scruffy like her daddy's.

Carrie (a team member and one of my students), Addie, and Toni (the team manager)
Addie LOVED both of these girls!

what a mess!

Addie, Sharon Paulk (my department chair and dear friend), and Me

the dress Anna and I made for the silent auction
Doug Amos, who has a precious little girl close to Addie's age, bought it!

It was a great night, and we all came away incredibly blessed by the servant hearts of the volleyball team and Kim Hendrix's message. The girls were successful in raising both awareness and money for breast cancer.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Faulkner Volleyball Team Benefit Dinner

















The Faulkner University Volleyball team has adopted the theme "playing for the cure" for the 2008 year. Each home game is considered a "pink out" game, and the girls will wear their new pink jerseys in an effort to help raise awareness of breast cancer and the needs for funding its research.

On Tuesday, September 16th, the Faulkner Volleyball team will host a Breast Cancer Awareness Benefit Dinner featuring Kim Hendrix (a local news anchor) as the guest speaker. In addition to the awareness dinner, there will also be a silent auction.
I teach math at Faulkner, and the reason I'm writing about this event is first because the Awareness Dinner has the same goal as the 3-Day Komen walk I'm participating in: to raise money for breast cancer research. Secondly, I am thrilled that the team has committed to donate part of the proceeds from this Dinner and Auction to my walk. I am so honored that they would do this!

The basics:
Tuesday, September 16
Faulkner University Rotunda
Auction: 5:30-7pm
Dinner: 6:30
(doors open 5:30)
cost: $25 per ticket

Please consider purchasing a ticket and supporting this great cause!
You can email me (mmr0917@gmail.com) or my daughter Anna (arwamsted@gmail.com) to obtain tickets.
photography and graphics by Ryan Bartels-Faulkner Univeristy
Help me reach my goal for the Atlanta Breast Cancer 3-Day!