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August 2004 Lemurs Entertain You
Lunch with Phil Knight, dine with Myron Scholes, or belly-dance the night away at Heidi Roizen's home entertainment center, aka "the Kasbah." The choice was up to more than 500 people who paid to attend the School's 17th Charity Auction in April. The event raised more than $77,000 for Special Olympics and Ronald McDonald House Charities. Faculty Nobelist Scholes and MBA alums Knight, '62, and Roizen, '83, were among 200 contributors to the auction. Not all the items involved food and wine with the heavy hitters, however. One of the most sought after was an afternoon at the San Francisco Zoo, up close and personal with the zoo's collection of lemurs, endangered prosimian primates found chiefly on the island of Madagascar. The unusual item was offered by second-year MBA student Kassia Yanosek, a lemur lover since she saw a documentary about the animals in high school. Yanosek is such an advocate of the little tree-dwellers, she says, that last summer she had a lemur-themed wedding, complete with furry bride and groom on the wedding cake, then spent her honeymoon in Madagascar tracking them in the jungle. The critters raised $125 for the two charities. |
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