April 1, 2002
7:30 PM
The Williams Room
HOW THE AUCTION WORKS
Each item or package will go to one winning bid.
For group packages such as dinners and trips, the winning bid can
come from a group or an individual.
ORIGINAL ARTWORK
Framed, signed print of watercolor painting of Charles River looking
across river from Baker beach to Cambridge side of Harvard. Painted
by David's dad, Brent Laycock, a leading Canadian artist. Est. market
value $200-300.
David Laycock
DISRUPTION BY TRUMPET
Dare Stephen to come into the middle of class playing his trumpet.
Stephen Benedict
WEEKEND IN BERMUDA
Lodging for 4 people in Bermuda plus your personal tour guide.
Barclay Simmons
BACHELORETTE PHOTO
One lucky woman will get the opportunity to take a picture with the
men of Section A in tuxedos or with their shirts off, winner's choice
depending on the bid price.
Men of Section A
SILENT AUCTION ROUND 1 ENDING AT 9:30PM SCRATCH ACADEMY DJ LESSON
Want to be the life of the party? Always wanted to know how to DJ?
Learn how work a turntable, spin those tracks, scratch those records
LOUISIANA DINNER with this 1 hour private lesson at Scratch Academy (in New York
Come enjoy Louisiana cuisine at its finest. Prepared by Ivy and Staff City), one of the nation's hottest new DJ schools. For 1 person.
(all native Louisianans) for 4 people in Cambridge. Jason Eisenberg
Ivy Jack
GUITAR LESSONS
FIVE COURSE MEAL MATCHED WITH BEER Guitar lessons / guitar purchasing advice from Mssr. Boruta. For the
You and three guests will enjoy beers matched perfectly with food. aspiring musician. Paul will offer a series of three guitar lessons employ-
Including Charlie Boys, Buffalo wings, fried scallops, beef stew, and grilled ing the rigorous Boruta method. In addition, Paul will be your guide on a
salmon. Featuring Blue Moon, Guinness, Boddington's and others. guitar shopping spree (if desired) to help select the right axe for you.
Kevin Mantsch Paul Boruta
AUTHENTIC INDIAN DINNER FOR FOUR GUITAR RENTALS, SET #1
Love Indian food? Ever wanted a lesson on how to read one of those Practice after your lessons with Su Lin's guitar. She will loan it to you
pesky menus? Or just missing some home cookin'? You're in luck! for one day at a time, 3 times.
Four top bidders will get a romantic (or not so romantic) dinner party Su Lin Ong
hosted by John Leroi and Kruti Patel. Homemade Indian meal will
include chole, aloo gobi, roomali roti and other food you can't pro- JAPANESE ANYONE?
nounce but love to eat. John and Kruti will dress in traditional Indian The lesson can be in business or not so clean Japanese language or
garb. And with Kruti in the kitchen, get ready for a very spicy evening! Calligraphy. As an added bonus Mikio will test Clark's knowledge of
Kruti Patel & John Leroi the language by answering in Japanese during a whole class.
Mikio Fujitsuka
HOMEMADE JAPANESE FOOD IN YOUR HOME
Enjoy traditional Japanese hospitality in your own home when Karou TENNIS FROM THE PRO
comes to your apartment and slaves over a hot oven to make you 3 one-hour tennis lessons that expire in June 2004 with Gog
homemade Gyoza - traditional Japanese dumplings - and green tea. Boonswang - the captain of the Princeton tennis team from 1994-96
Kaoru Ogihara (#2 singles and #1 doubles); and world ranked player from 1996-1998.
Gog Boonswang
PERSONAL HALLMARK
Private card-making session + 3 hand-made cards of your choice. ORIGINAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS
Gentlemen, impress the ladies with a hand-made, hand-designed card. Your choice of the original landscape photographs taken by Shibani.
Ladies, let your creative and sensitive side shine. 1 session for up to 2 people. Choose from New York, San Francisco, Bombay or Hong Kong cityscape
So-Young Kang photographs. One photo of your choice available; $30 minimum bid.
Shibani Joshi
PIANO LESSONS
Always wanted to learn how to play the piano? After 4 1-hour lessons, DINNER AND DRINKS AT HIDEAWAY BAR IN BEIJING
you may not be Beethoven, but you will be able to play your favorite Dinner and drinks for one night for 1 couple at Adam's bar!
pop song. Adam Zhi Li and Jason Liu
So-Young Kang
NAPA IN A BOTTLE SINGING TELEGRAM
One bottle of delicious Grgich Hills Chardonnay (Croatian-owned One personal acoustic serenade from Paul Boruta. Song and location
vineyard in Napa). are the bidder's choice. He'll do whatever song you want, wherever
Margo Pilic you want it, to whomever you want… a professor, a classmate, a loved
one, for a special occasion!
CIGARS Paul Boruta
10 Cubans packed specially for you.
Karen Cervoni OMARI'S BOOK
Five copies of Omari's upcoming book Your MBA Game Plan. The
FRESH BREATH FOR LIFE auction winner will be able to give the books to friends who constant-
You will have to thank Pfizer for your lifetime supply of Listerine ly 'bug' you about the application process. Rather than sitting there
Pocketpacks. answering their questions, you can just hand them a copy of the book.
Emily Fink Retail value = ~$50. ROI value = ~5MM.
Omari Bouknight
GIANTS GAME
Rick will host you at a San Francisco Giants baseball game in San
Francisco this summer (date TBD). Perfect for someone who wants to
see the city and root for the Giants! For one person.
Rick Lewis
SCENIC HIKE
Hike with Pete for 2 students. Location to be determined, but some-
where within the New England region.
Pete Hecht
LOCAL DINNERS IN BEIJING AND SHANGHAI GOLF FOR 3 WITH DEAN CLARK
Taste the best of China as Adam and Charles treat you to delicious Golf for 3 people with Dean Clark at Oakley Country Club. Each sec-
meals in each of their cities when you come to visit. For two people. tion will have people bid as groups of three, and the highest bidding
Adam Zhi Li (Beijing), Charles Zhen Xu (Shanghai) group across all of the sections will win. Winning group to be
announced after all the sections have completed their auctions.
LUNCH AT DAVIO'S WITH LINDA Dean Clark
Linda invites 4 people to lunch at Davio's on a mutually convenient
date. Davio's is a nice restaurant on the Charles River near Kendall RED SOX GAME AND TOUR
Square--if the successful bidders pick a nice day, it's a great place to Trip to a Red Sox game with Mark. Will also include a tour of
eat outdoors. Transportation provided. Fenway and possibly a meeting with the senior staff. For 1 person.
Linda Doyle Mark Bozzone
LINDA'S COOKIES DINNER FOR 3 (WINNER PLUS 2 GUESTS) AT OLIVES
Basket of home made cookies--mutually agreed upon delivery date. Student budget have you down? Dying to eat at one of the best
Linda Doyle restaurants in Boston? Now you can. Just grab 2 friends and head
for Todd English's premier restaurant Olives. We might even invite
ADULT OR CHILD DANCE LESSONS Alan Dershowitz…
Heather Seeber will provide three one-hour dance lessons in ballet, Raf Verheij and Brandon Adams
jazz, or tap. Heather is a professionally trained dancer, with over ten
years experience as a dance instructor, and the coach of the Harvard KEGS AND EGGS
Crimson Dance Team! The lessons will be given in Shad, and can be Start the morning off right. Enjoy a liquid breakfast on the last day of
given to adults or children. Winner can be an individual or a group school (or the date of your choice) at Shibani's apartment in SFP.
of 3 who want to split the lessons. Enjoy eggs made any style and copious amounts of your favorite beer.
Heather Seeber The more the merrier. Minimum bid $15.
Shibani Joshi and Margo Pilic
WINE & CHEESE TASTING PARTY
Looking for a classy evening? Want to learn a little bit more about HOST YOUR OWN BBQ
wine? Join Karen, the section style expert, and Aliceson, the section Melanie will allow you to host a 10 person BBQ at her apt, and she
wine expert (she's even been published!), for an evening of wine and will do the BBQ'ing for you.
cheese sampling. We can accommodate 6-10 attendees. Melanie Couture
Karen Cervoni & Aliceson Robinson
PROFESSIONAL BARTENDING SERVICE
ASADO ARGENTINO Anupam will provide professional bartending service at any one of
Eugenia will concoct a traditional Argentinian meal with wine and your parties. Fully-dressed in a tuxedo. Took bartending class in college.
dessert included. YUM!! Anupam Mishra
Eugenia Gibbons
GUARANTEED SUCCESS SALSA LESSONS
HOME-COOKED SOUTHERN DINNER FOR 2 Passionate about Latino American dance but a complete mess in the
Home cooked southern meal (including alcohol if appropriate). dance floor? Then try the infallible "Serge-method for beginners":
Jonathan Shudmak Salsa and Merengue classes for single, couple or groups (max 5 per-
sons) with 100% success guaranteed!
DINNER ON ONUR Serge Salager
Sample authentic Portuguese cuisine in Cambridge's oldest
Portuguese restaurant! You get two $25 gift certificates to Casa
Portugal, valid for separate visits.
Onur Goker
ASIAN DINNER
In the mood for some Thai? Korean? Japanese? Grab your partner
and join Travis and Megan for a night out on the town at your pre-
ferred Asian restaurant.
Travis Waller
SILENT AUCTION ROUND 3 ENDING AT 11:30PM AUTOGRAPHED SERGIO GARCIA EQUIPMENT
Sergio Garcia (2002 number 4 ranked golf player in the world) has
HOME WIRELESS NETWORK SETUP donated a personalized autographed cap worn by him during the
Well over a $250 value! Do you wish that you could use your laptop's 2003 Masters of Augusta tournament. Also includes a pack of 3 golf
wireless capability at home like you do in Spangler? If you bid on balls that were in his bag during that tournament. Both objects are
this item, Bijan will personally provide a brand-new Linksys wireless unique because they were used by him, have his name on them, and
router (a $150 value), install it in your apartment, and provide fol- cannot be found anywhere else: Adidas and Titlist make them exclu-
low-up service as needed through graduation. Once installed, you sively for him. Finally, this package also includes a Swatch Irony
can use an unlimited number of internet connections in your apart- model watch named after him.
ment (i.e., multiple laptops, desktops, etc). Watch firsthand as the David Rodriguez-Fraile
tech-geek, pocket-protector side of Bijan finally emerges full
force...Bidders must have existing cable modem or DSL service, no
wireless cards for other computers are included. HIGH END LEATHER JACKET
Bijan Salehizadeh