MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL — Sisters, what a night. Sunday’s Cougars on the Prowl Gala was the most beautiful evening in Capstone history, and we are so close to announcing a final total. The Grammas are still writing checks. Mitzi asked for “one more pen.” We will update you.
The Headline Item
The Private Pickleball Clinic with Coach Tyler and the RMU Men’s Club Volleyball Team opened at $9,000 and turned into a forty-minute bidding war between Tinsley and Margaux. Coach Tyler watched from the back of the room holding a water. Both families have asked us not to print the final number. Tinsley won.
The clinic is Saturday at 6:30 a.m. Fourteen moms have already asked whether they can “observe.” Coach Tyler asked if some of the kids could come play too. We said that is such a sweet idea.
The Rest of the Live Auction
- Valet Spot #1 went to me. Thank you to everyone who stopped bidding when I looked at them.
- Name the Splash Pad went to Blakely, uncontested. It will be called The Blakely.
- The Kitchen Island Seat went to Sloane. She has already asked about the stool.
- Lunch with Dr. Cathy was withdrawn. Dr. Cathy returned our voicemail and said, very kindly, “No.”
- The Abounding Acres Day went to Mitzi for $12,000. She has now been told several more times that it is not a vineyard. She is going anyway. Mr. Segewick said he’d put the money straight into the third-grade field trip fund. We thought that was such a cute thing for him to do with our money.
The Silent Auction
Becca’s item, a full year of supplies from Mrs. Hollis’s wish list, sat in the hallway by the restrooms all night. By 11 p.m. it had one bid, Becca’s, for $20.
At 11:15, Mr. Segewick wrote down $25. Then the three teachers working coat check each added a bid. It closed at $60 to Mr. Segewick, who carried the wipes, markers, glue sticks and ink to Mrs. Hollis’s room first thing Monday morning. We’re told she hugged the ink.
It was the only item from the whole auction that reached a classroom the next day. We are looking into why.
A Fun Fact
Becca mentioned that Charles Linn’s fall festival raised $3,800 this year and bought every teacher in the building a laminator and a full year of ink. Sloane asked whether their PTO “has to speak Mexican to run an auction like that.” Becca said, “Spanish.” Sloane said it is so impressive what they do with so little. We are thinking of sending them our leftover balloon arch.
UPDATE: The Grammas have finished. The grand total will be announced at the Book Fair on Saturday, November 14, between the green books and the blue books.