Benefit Auction 2006

April 29, 2006, 6:30 to 10:00 pm

Location: Catalyst Ranch - 656 W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60661

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The Benefit Auction on April 29th at Catalyst Ranch was a huge success. Thanks to WMG Board Members and Auction Chairs Amy Stoeffler and Margo Jeanchild for helping to organize the event, and thanks to Ann Regan who streamlined procedures. It helped to make things run smoothly and all our guests were happy.

Thank you to all volunteers and especially Deb Flagel, Barb Grzybowski, Marty Bash, Caren Rudman, Ellen Rodman and Mary O'Connell. Their work and input helped in a variety of important areas. We are grateful for all sponsorships and monetary donations and we thank each of our guests for their attendance and for bidding on the many wonderful items.

We are thankful to each person who bought raffle tickets and we are happy to announce the winners here: Mary Symington from Western Springs, Illinois, won the first prize of $1000; the second prize, a TiVo donated by Wilma Stevens, went to Susan Suntay from Chicago; and the third prize, a chocolate and wine basket donated by August Hill Winery, was won by Bill Litvian.

We are so very grateful to all those who donated artwork, items, services and/or gift certificates. We were able to raise $55,000 from sponsorships, adbook and raffle ticket sales, admissions, and live and silent auction income, with $10,500 for the live auction items alone.

We gratefully acknowledge donations for the Live and Silent Auction by Roberta Reb Allen, Mary Ann Anthony, Marty Bash, Cali Bergold, Susan Berkowitz, Andrea Bird, Janet Bloch, Betsy Voyles, Denise Bonesteel, Kris Brody, Annie Watts, Cabot Cheese, Mo Cahill, Frank Caliendo, Pamela Callahan, Nancy Charak, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago Brauhaus, Mary Ruth Coffey, Liz Cohn, Lynda Cole, Jean Cozier, Parbati Dasgupta, Linda Deardorff, Jan Dee, Wendy Deerly-Reese, Karen Dolan, Aida Emart, Teresa Faris, Deb Flagel, Anita Cano from Flo's, Pam Fox from Fox Hair, Lawrence Wahls from Fox-Wahls Design, Barbara Freeman, Elizabeth Nofziger, LuEllen Joy Giera, Andrea Ginsburg, Selene Sepsey Grimes, Rosma Gutierrez, Barbara Harris, Lisa Harris, Jan Hart, Sarah Hauser, Juarez Hawkins, Iva Hladis, Angela Canada Hopkins, Deborah Hughes, Dorothy Hughes, Charles Ifergan, Margo Jeanchild, Shelly Jyoti, Ursula Kammer-Fox, Sonja Kruitwagen and Randy Raaflaub, Helena Kvarnstroem, Leah Stoffel, Elaine Langerman, Roger Knuth from Lapin Systems, Inc., Phylllis Lear, Sharon Lee, Lauren Levato, Kerry Maiorca, Jessica Maloney, Robin Malpass, Stephanie Marder, Cassie Mazziotta, Bobbi Meier, Monika Meler, Bert Menco, Dr. Suesi Metcalf, Roberta Mezinskas, Ellen Miles, Norman and Carolyn Mills, Renny Mills, Beate Minkovski, Doris Monti, David Leigh from Morpho Gallery, Susan Strong Muir, Judith Schubert Mullen, Emily Murphy, Nancy Sorcek from Nancy's Hair House, Deborah Neumayer, Laura Nugent, Mary O'Connell, Joyce Owens, Lin Shook, Carmen M. Perez, Corinne Peterson, Julie Pitzen, Frank Popowski, Erica Popp, Carmen Quintana, R&F Handmade Paints, Cherry Rahn, Karen Rechtschaffen, Katrina Rhein, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Eva Roa, Ellen Rodman, Caren Rudman, Catherine Schwalbe-Bouzide, Diana Shannon-Young, Kris Shellabarger, Jill Renee Smith, Jim Snow, Leslie Sobel, Jacklyn Soo, Deborah South, Spa Ariel, Cynthia Staples, Wilma Stevens, Katherine Strause, Bobby Talamine, Dawn Tappen, Sonja Tellison-Foster, Agnes Ting Yee Lee, Dahlia Tulett, George Urdiales, Luis Uribe, Petra Voegtle, Kathleen Waterloo, Emily Watson, Marsha Pardo from Webster Street Picture Frame Co., Marsha Pardo, Hong-Ling Wee, Rhonda Wheatley, Carol Jungman and David Freeman from White Lotus Retreat Center, Gail Willert, Sallie Wolf, Women & Children First and Maren Zabel.

Thanks to Catalyst Ranch and its capable staff, who worked hard to make everything perfect; Amazing Edibles, which did a super job catering the event; August Hill Winery, which provided wines for the event; Flo, who donated appetizer trays; Antje Gehrken for donating CDs as gifts to our guests; and Candace Hunter, our star auctioneer, who did a super job to get the top amounts for the live auction items.