An email sent by Athletic Director John Grogan made its way to me this morning. It appears that there is no money available to equip the state-of-the-art weight room that is going in the high school. Here is his letter:
Hi everyone,
I am writing with a favor to ask. As many of you know, we will be getting a terrific new weight room in our new facility. However, the equipment for the new facility was not part of the project. Therefore, we have had to privately raise funds to pay for the equipment. Our goal is to put the best equipment in the space to meet the needs of our student athletes! Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, our fund raising efforts have fallen short and we still have to raise a significant amount of money.
The good news is that we received a terrific lead gift from a gentleman named Preston McMurry from the class of 1955. Preston donated $50,000 dollars toward the weight room!! However, we still have a ways to go.
Please find attached a letter that I put together that I would ask that you send to your parents, alumni, or any other groups that support us to help raise the money we need to equip the room properly for our student athletes. Feel free to change the letter as you see fit – just wanted to provide an example. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
As you will see in the letter, donations can be sent to the Blue Devil Club and we would ask that they fill out the donation card or make sure that they write weight room in the memo line. I have worked with the Blue Devil Club to ensure that all donations for the weight room are put into a separate account to be specifically used for the equipment to go into the room.
Again, I know this is unusual but as you have seen in the past we have a good plan for that room and I’m hopeful that we can raise the money to provide the equipment our teams need to succeed.
In advance, thanks for any help that you provide!!
John
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