Fund raising dinner at the Brasserie Louis

I just wanted to share one of our successful stories of fund raising this semester. The BAP members here at Bucknell organized a fund raising dinner at the Brasserie Louis restaurant. BAP was working together with the Delta Upsilon (DU) members to make this possible. The owner of the Brasserie Louis was wonderful enough to let us work with him to make the dinner possible. The way it worked was simple. We were given a certain number of seats in the restaurant and we were supposed to fill them. In preparation we spent one of our weekend evenings writing letters to all professors on Bucknell campus to come to the dinner. It was enjoyable working with BAP members, trying to keep the work fun through jokes and talking to some writer about his study of Chinese ancient history. Anyway, we soon had everything in place and we designated people to take on different departments.

The next week we had tables in the Langone center (LC) trying to get some students to sign up as well. The prices for the dinner were $30 for professors and $25 for students. For days into business there were a few people signed up and the main organizer of the event was worried that it would not be successful. So, all measures had to be taken to get the word out. I got letters and worked door to door of the deans offices handing them letters and telling them to come. Meanwhile Molly was doing something similar-trying to get her friends to come the dinner.

The great part was that it was BAP advisor's -Janice birthday that Saturday. So, she invited her friends to come and celebrate her birthday at the restaurant. I also called a number of my friends and told them to come to the dinner.

Within a few days people had started signing up for the dinner and everything was looking nice.

Anyway, soon Saturday was here and we had the dinner. The wonderful part of it was that there were so many Civil engineering professors which gave me another reason to be proud of the professors in my major. Anyway, my technology support boss Bud also came. He is a great boss and a great person.
So, i enjoyed dinner with my friends and we later headed back to school.

Special thanks to those who made the dinner possible and everyone who attended

Muyambi