Rare Chair Affair - Bid Farewell to Breast Cancer

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 10th Annual Rare Chair Affair on October 10 at the Harley Davidson Museum! Your enthusiastic bidding helped us raise over $63,000! Please enjoy the wonderful photographs of this year's event by photographer Erin Calfa Weide. We hope you'll join us again next year as we "Bid High, Bid Often and Bid Farewell to Breast Cancer" !

We'd like to express our appreciation to the following people and organizations for their support:

David Caruso, Dynamic Events for his incredible talent
Classic Party Rentals for the jaw dropping "set"
Majic Enterprises for the inspired lighting
Erin Calfa Weide, photography
Adam Nilson, our first-ever live artist
BBJ Linen for the snappy table settings
Fred Astaire Dance Studios for the fantastic disco dancers
Phil Clonninger, Curt Otto and Monica Otto, this year's "artist angels", who worked for months with the Survivor Artists to create such unique and beautiful chairs
Meg Stoddard, invitation design
Paula Schulze, website design

Financial Sponsors:
Astra Zeneca
Genentech
First Weber Group Foundation
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
Brazil, Thelen and Benske, S.C.
Chrome Czars Classic Car Club
Scott and Peggy Sampson
Tom and Linda Zukowski
Herbert H. Kohl Charities, Inc.

And an enormous thank you to our Honorary Chairperson, Lisamarie Arnold, our Survivor Artists and the 2009 RCA committee: Katie Corcoran, Erin Calfa Weide, Colleen Booth, Linda Weide, Debra Rand Feldman, Jo DeMars, Peggy Coffey, Nancy Schelble, Gerry Parenteau, Karen Maynard, Jeannine Davis and Lynn Petrie.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list for next year, would like to join the planning committee, or would like to donate for 2010, please contact us at wbcc@standupandspeakout.org. See you next year!