Living Treasures
Living Treasures Celebration a huge success!
Living Treasures took place May 29, 2009, 5:30—9:00 PM, in BC’s Cafeteria. Living Treasures honors those folks who have worked tirelessly to advance pluralism and equity on our campus. This includes staff, faculty, students and administrators.
The Living Treasures Celebration turned out to be a wonderful evening! Beabe Akpojovwo and Carol Grant served as co-chairs, and did an amazing job of pulling all of the details together to make the event a smooth and fun-filled evening.
Rick Mangan and David Stacey shared their wonderful musical talents and brought us a diverse range of music. The both of them magical! Louis and Georgia Watanabe shared some ballroom dancing with us and added yet another talent to their list of interests and skills! We were all privileged to share a truly amazing feast!
Several individuals and groups took on the challenge of decorating a table and all of them were wonderful! Artistic, 
creative and thought provoking! They really added to the atmosphere and helped us decide that this is an idea that needs to stay around for a while! Thank you all for participating! The group winner of the tables decoration contest was Rentals. Peggy and Gia decorated a fabulous table, that contained a live goldfish and frog. Susan Gjolmesli won the best individual decorated table.
Many volunteers helped us get things set up and ready with silverware and errand running and raffle tickets all of the other details that needed attending to.. Thank you to Phil McGilton and Amy McCrory and Beabe’s daughter Alana Akpojovwo. Jumping right in to help wherever needed. Thank you to the president of the ASL Club, Adelle, for really jumping in and offering her muscles everywhere!
Thank you to
Joann and Pheng (our porter) from the cafeteria staff, Jim from Public Safety, Adam from Media Services and the ever so wonderful events staff, Peggy and Gia, who went above and beyond in their efforts to make the event an evening to remember! Thank you to Cora Nixon, Suzy Lepeintre, Cheryl Vermilyea, Amy MacNeill, Scott Bessho, and Ata Karim for signing up to do setup and clean up! Lori Tiede who helped us set up the sign up website and the html for the RSVP!
Last, (but not least!) Dr. Jim Bennett, VP of Equity and Pluralism for the funds to make the event possible and for sponsoring the wine room and offering his smooth bartending skills. Thank you so much! And of course, 
Thank You to our newly honored Living Treasures, Susan Gjolmesli, George Northcroft, Amanda Alva and Ella Mae Cuffy, without whom we would not be celebrating.
This page was last revised on July 24, 2009