Dear Classmate,
ETHS 67 Gives Gave Back Like No Class Before Us
As we come came together for our 50th reunion, we have had the opportunity to begin a philanthropic tradition that will benefit the children of Evanston far into the future. While many individual alumni have made gifts to honor their reunions, we are the first to undertake to give a significant gift as a class. Won’t you please You supported the students and teachers of ETHS by donating to our Class Gift?. If all All of us do did what we can could, ETHS ’67 will once again leave our mark on the school that helped us become what we are.
No Evanston class has done what we are doing did. Our leadership will inspire a tradition that will help Evanston children far into the future, a proud legacy indeed.
Philanthropy expands the opportunities available to ETHS students. Our gift will help creative teachers invent programs to engage students who’ve lost interest in the traditional curriculum so that they go on to fulfilling lives and careers, as well as enrich opportunities for the gifted. Evanston has an outstanding faculty—teachers who strive every day to help each student find a path.
Some examples of the novel programs philanthropy has allowed teachers to create:
Build an Advanced Manufacturing Lab with state-of-the-art CNC tools to prepare students for highly skilled industry jobs and careers in engineering.
Create the Geometry in Construction program to convince students who think "they can't do the math" that they can.
Equip the Renewable Energy and Ecology Lab, letting students experience science connected to the sort of real world problems they find interesting.
Transform the Automotive Technology Lab, preparing students to graduate with industry certifications to work on today's high-tech automobiles.
And some projects which just make ETHS a better place to be a student:
Build the Student Commons and Bike Compound. None of us will forget that we didn't even have a student lounge!
Refurbish the main auditorium.
Light and resurface Lazier Field.
Our gifts go to the ETHS Educational Foundation and are tax deductible. We were an outstanding class 50 years ago. With your participation, we’ll proved just how outstanding our class is we are.
Nancy Berry Thomson and Ron Harris volunteered to lead this campaign, and we’d like to close with a personal note:
ETHS sent us out into the world well prepared to take advantage of what came next. We are extremely grateful, and have devoted considerable time and treasure to paying back (or forward, however you prefer to think of it) the gifts ETHS gave us.
Philanthropy, regardless of your capability, is an extremely pleasurable experience. The best salesperson in the world can’t talk you into reaching a little higher, you have to do that yourself. When you do, you will feel very good indeed. We promise.
We would love to speak with you, or correspond, however you prefer. Our email is:
eths67classgift@gmail.com (This is different from the Reunion Committee email)
To see what the Foundation does: eths.k12.il.us/foundation
Please, take Thanks to those who took the time to convince yourselfves, then proved that the Class of ’67 still rocks.
When you’re readyIf you still feel generous, please make your a check payable to: "ETHS Educational Foundation," and mail to:
ETHS
1600 Dodge
Evanston IL 60201
Attn: Joanne Bertsche
And include “ETHS 67 Reunion Gift” on the memo line.
If you prefer to make your gift online, the link is:
https://eths.revtrak.net/Educational-Foundation/#/v/Educational-Foundation-Class-Reunion-Gift
Thank you to the generous donors who have contributed to the Class Reunion gift to ETHS. To date, we have raised over $106,000 for ETHS---the largest class gift ever. The funds will support extraordinary facilities on campus and guarantee excellence for all students.
-Nancy Berry Thomson and Ron Harris, Class Gift Co-Chairs
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