{"id":4603,"date":"2006-04-27T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:30:19","slug":"earlier_this_mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4603","title":{"rendered":"An evening fund-raiser for my old school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this month, I hosted some friends at a fund raiser for my old grammar school&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; St. Ann&#8217;s in Ossining. It was at a Wednesday evening Westchester Broadway Theatre showing of <strong>Aida <\/strong>and we had a &#8220;sky box&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the official &#8220;photogenic couple of the night&#8221; shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13083\" title=\"Stanngala4506_006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_006.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is my good buddy Noreen Connolly, looking adoringly at me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13084\" title=\"Stanngala4506_004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_004.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_004-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is the whole motley crew,, minus Noreen who had to leave a bit early<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13085\" title=\"Stanngala4506_010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_010.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/stanngala4506_010-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had an excellent time, and in all the school netted about $24,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I hosted some friends at a fund raiser for my old grammar school&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; St. Ann&#8217;s in Ossining. It was at a Wednesday evening Westchester Broadway Theatre showing of Aida and we had a &#8220;sky box&#8221;. Here is the official &#8220;photogenic couple of the night&#8221; shot And here is my good buddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13086,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/13086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}