Quick and Dirty: Making the WAC Green Room Campaign happen!Donations Go To: WASHINGTON COLLEGE A 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Positions:
1. Honor Timothy B. Maloney's contribution to the Washington College community and beyond.
2. Show that working together, we can make a difference!
3. http://gibson.washcoll.edu/
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Education - College and University
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To Our Dearest Washington College Drama and Friends of Drama Alumni:
For forty years Tim Maloney has been the heart of the Washington College Drama Department. In honor of all he's given to every drama major, the new Main Stage Green Room could bear his name. But we need YOU to make this happen.
We need to show WC that small dollar donations are just as landmark as larger ones when put together. If the 2008 Obama campaign taught us anything, it is that. In true “Freaky-Freaky Drama Majors” fashion, today we say “Fuck it, let's do this!” It's time to put our quick-and-dirty drama know-how to use. We need to spread the word wider, make the call louder, and do it NOW!
We are $11,500 short of the $100,000 needed to meet our $200,000 Decker Challenge grant. The new theatre opens with Convocation on October 2nd. This means we have a week before the opening of the new Gibson Performing Arts Center. So we need YOU.
Forward this to your WC friends and family. Forward this to your theatre, artistic, or sympathetic friends and family. Tell them we fought tooth and nail for this center and now we have it. Tell them we want to make sure that a piece of it bears the name of a man who helped shape our lives. Tell them about what TM gave to the college, the drama department, to you.
And in honor of TM, give. $5, $10, $20, $25. More is always welcome. Remember, your donations are tax-deductible. Forgo that cup of coffee for one morning. Take the money you’d use for one happy hour. Help us show the WC fundraisers that not only do the alumni care, but we’re committed. Seven days is not a lot of time. But if we band together, we can walk into the Development Office with a check that will ensure that TM's commitment to his students is known to generations of students to come.
As an added bonus, with every thousand dollars raised there will follow a series of entertaining events! Tamanya will take a pie in the face! (Hint: she prefers apple or cherry). Keeza will kiss a picture of George W. Bush! Our own Drama Mama Lindsay will take a shot for every five hundred dollars raised! And WAC Drama mystic mindy promises a free reading for any who give over $100 dollars!
But if these incredible acts aren't incentive enough, we're certain that we can get even MORE alumni to do crazy stunts if we succeed in getting this green room named for TM. So when you give, don't just give money! In true WAC Drama spirit, give a little of your dignity and get someone to sponsor some crazy antics! We'll get all of them on film and share it with everyone who contributes. (Sadly, your loss of dignity is not tax deductible).
We all know what a special place Washington College was and is to all of us. We all know that the place we called home on campus was the theatre. Many of you have already been generous. But we need ALL of us to make a difference. Click here now and honor a part of our collective history. We can do this by October 1st.
We’re committed. Commit with us. "Y'know what we mean?"
With best wishes,
The Set the Stage Committee
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
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For more information on the Timothy Maloney Green Room project, go to
http://magazine.washcoll.edu. For more information on the Gibson project, go to
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