16th Annual Pathfinder`s Dinner
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16th Annual Pathfinder`s Dinner
N ORTHWEST-S HOALS C OMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION Proudly presents: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:00 p.m. Silent Auction 7:00 p.m. Dinner Marriott Shoals Hotel and Spa 16th Annual Pathfinder’s Dinner Conference Center L featuring: ee Marshall is an award winning journalist who anchors the morning and noon news for WAFF 48 News, the NBC station in Huntsville, Alabama and WDRM radio. Lee hosts the weekly segment "Kids to Love" on WAFF 48 where she introduces viewers to children waiting to be adopted. In the past 7 years, she has profiled 193 children. Of the 193 - 185 have found forever families through adoption. Born into foster care, adopted into a loving home, Lee Marshall knows first hand the difference a forever family can make. Lee is the founder of the Kids to Love Foundation, a non profit organization dedicated to meeting the immediate needs of foster children while they wait for forever families. The Kids to Love Foundation has provided 49 college scholarships to foster children, Christmas for more than 1,900 children in 2007 and school supplies to more than 3,100 children in 2007. Through the Foundation's Meth Orphan Program, the Kids to Love Foundation has helped 55 local children pulled from meth labs. In November of 2005, the Kids to Love Foundation took an aggressive effort to rescue children living in these dangerous labs. The See Meth Stop Meth Tip Line has received more than 680 tips, with more than 500 reporting children living in these dangerous meth labs. As a result law enforcement officers have made dozens of arrests. Lee has been honored by Congress as an Angel in Adoption. She has also been commended for her work with foster and adoptive children in the Congressional Record. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services has recognized Lee for her adoption awareness efforts. Lee has turned her hobby of singing into an international music career, selling albums from Alabama to Australia. Lee uses her music ministry as the primary fundraising source for the Kids to Love Foundation. Lee and her husband Jeff are the proud parents of daughters Ella and Emma and reside in Huntsville, Alabama. T he NW-SCC Singers were organized in 1989 when Bob Head joined the faculty of Northwest-Shoals Community College. The Singers performed their first concert for a Media Day program ten days after their first rehearsal. Their first concert was in the room which they now use for rehearsal. Since then, they have performed over 1,500 concerts locally, as well as state and national conventions. They have performed three in New York City’s Carnegie Hall and twice at the New York City Vocal Jazz Festival in Lincoln Center’s Allen Room. Our students are the best part of Northwest-Shoals Community College. Current members of the NW-SCC Singers are: First-year students: Chance Hall, Corey Keenum and April Reding. Second-year students: Kayla Emmons, Jonathan Hallmark, Josh Hatton, Elizabeth Love, Wendy Mayfield, David Phillips, Stephanie Vess, and Micah Walley. 16th Annual Pathfinder’s Dinner Speaker: Lee Marshal Entertainment: NW-SCC Singers and Eric Kirkman Presented by the NW-SCC Foundation YES! I want to support the Northwest-Shoals Community College Foundation, Inc. Please return the completed form in the enclosed envelope no later than September 12, 2008. Note: Event tickets will be forwarded upon receipt of completed order form. ONE STAR SPONSOR One Ticket Recognition in event program $75 TWO STARS SPONSOR Two Tickets Recognition in event program $150 THREE STARS SPONSOR Four Tickets $300 Recognition in event program 1/4-page ad in event program FOUR STARS SPONSOR Eight Tickets—One Tables $600 Recognition in event program Half-page ad in event program FIVE STARS SPONSOR 16 Tickets—Two Tables $1,200 Recognition in event program Full-page ad in event program IN-KIND SPONSOR - Donation of Silent Auction Item and/or contribution: $50 $100 $200 ________ (other) Fill in description and value of item below: Recognition in event program COMPANY NAME: CONTACT NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE NUMBER: E-MAIL SILENT AUCTION ITEM—DESCRIPTION AND VALUE Complete this form and return it with your check to: NORTHWEST-SHOALS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC. Contact: Teresa Harrison 256-331-2515 or teresah@nwscc.edu Thank you for your continued support to the Foundation!