The OES auction needs your help with donations to make it an incredible fundraiser for our school. If each family brings in only two donations, we will have an outstanding range of items. There are so many easy ways for your family to contribute:

• Ask your employer to make a product or cash contribution or to purchase an ad for our catalog.
• Ask friends or family members who own businesses for an item.
• For those local businesses you support, ask for a donation such as gourmet grocery certificates, restaurants, sporting goods, specialty clothing, jewelry, spas, hair salons, toy stores – the list is limited only by your imagination.
• Do you or someone you know have a second home you could donate for a week or a long weekend?
• Do you have a special talent you could share, e.g., knitting, fused glass making, painting, or jewelry making?
• Are you a gourmet cook? Want to donate a fabulous dinner by teaming up with friends to help host a great evening? Our dinners are some of our bestselling items.
• Do you have connections to hotels, restaurants, maybe an airline? Help us put together some fun trips!

Over the past seven years, the auction has raised over $2 million for OES benefiting students, faculty and staff at all levels. Please help continue this tradition.

The deadline for donation is February 14, 2009. You may download an auction donor form here. To place an advertisement in the auction catalog, please use this auction ad form. These forms also are available at divisional offices.

If you have questions, please contact Lacie McKearney, Alumni Relations and Special Events Coordinator, at (503) 768-3156.