6:00 pm / Palladium Saint Louis
Mark your calendar for the inaugural evening of “The Wyman Orange Carpet A Night at the Oscars.” Travel the “orange carpet” upon arrival, see “celebrities,” enjoy dinner and dancing to The Fabulous Motown Revue.
Your support for this event will provide life-changing support and opportunities to the young people in our community.
For more information, please contact Terry Raftery at 636.549.1227 or terry.raftery@wyamncenter.org.
On Monday August 16, the heat wave broke and over 200 golfers came out to support Wyman teens at the 30th Anniversary Wyman Golf Tournament! The days events netted $219,000 for the young people in Wyman programs – this is enough to fund an entire class of the Wyman Teen Leadership Program for a whole year!
A special thanks to our lead sponsors: Kirberg Company; American Family Insurance, Bill Voss Agency, Inc., Dave & Cheryl Morley; and the South Side Lions; and to our 2010 Golf Committee for making this event a success!
Did you have your picture taken at the event? To view more pictures from the tournament, follow this link to Wyman’s Facebook page!
Mark your calendar for next year’s tournament – August 15, 2011!
TICKET SALES ARE OVER – WINNER WILL BE DRAWN ON AUGUST 16TH
Enter today, to win a “Piece of Baseball Heaven!”
Drawing tickets are $50 a piece for your chance to win twenty (20) tickets for a private suite at Busch Stadium and $1,000 in food and beverages for the September 27th game vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates at 7:15 p.m. (Donated by: GKN Aerospace).
HURRY! ONLY 300 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD
The drawing will take place during the evening program at the 30th Anniversary Wyman Golf Tournament on August 16, 2010.
You do not need to be present at the tournament to win. The winner will be notified by phone or e-mail and then sent the tickets.
All proceeds will benefit Wyman’s mission to prepare teens from disadvantaged circumstances to lead successful lives and build strong communities.
Purchase of drawing tickets is not tax deductible.
This year, teens enrolled in Southside’s Teen Outreach Program (TOP) received a Youth Mini-Grant from the St. Louis Mental Health Board that supported their service learning project aimed at helping individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The youth partnered with The St. Patrick Center for this project and prepared sandwiches and baked goods (183 sandwiches, 105 chocolate chip cookies, and 32 brownies to be exact!) for use in programs; organized a hygiene product donation drive at their schools; and volunteered at City Seeds Urban Farm, a horticultural job training program for St. Patrick Center clients through a partnership with Gateway Greening.
On Saturday August 14th, TOP participants will join other area youth to share their project with the community at a Youth Showcase presented by the St. Louis Mental Health Board. Through the guidance of Jackie Masei, founder and director of Playback Workshop Theater and teaching artist for the Southside Summer Arts Program, the teens will use Playback Theater to present moments from their service learning project. We invite you to come to the Youth Showcase to learn about and support the great work that Southside TOP teens and other St. Louis youth have accomplished in the community this year!
What: St. Louis Mental Health Board Youth Showcase
When:: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 2:00-4:00pm
Where:: Gateway Classic Foundation, 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive
For more info, visit http://www.stlmhb.com/home.aspx
Wyman recently tracked down the first graduating class of the Wyman Teen Leadership Program and talked to them about their experiences in the program and about where they are now. These young people graduated from high school and TLP in 2006.
When it came to getting into college and pursuing their goals, all graduates we spoke with said their experience in Wyman programming was a valuable one. “I wrote my college essay on my trek experience, the personal obstacles I overcame and my experiences with conflict resolution and team work. The essay helped me complete my application – and also helped me get my college scholarship,” said Mya, who is currently applying to her “short list” of 25 medical schools.
Graduate, Aaron’s, best advice to teens today is to take full advantage of the opportunities placed before you. “Don’t be non-chalant, even if you feel like it. The connections you’ll make now can really improve your chances at reaching your goals for the future.”
Of the 21 graduates, contact information was found for 18 of them.
• 15 of 18 went on to college from high school. That’s an 83% rate of going to college, compared to 54% among low income youth and 81% among high income youth (National Center for Education Statistics, 2007).
• 14 of 15 graduated/will graduate college by December 2010 in four and a half years. On average, 4 year colleges graduate approximately 60% of students in 6 years (American Enterprise Institute, 2009).
• 7 of 14 college graduates have been accepted to a post-graduate program and will begin graduate school this fall. An additional three graduates are planning/researching graduate school options and are committed to attending.
Of the 12 respondents:
• 12 of 12 confirmed the value of the Wyman program (citing, for example, life experience, self-confidence, contributing toward their success in college, and resume building).
• 12 of 12 encourage today’s teens to embrace the Wyman program and get all they can from the opportunity.
• 9 of 12 respondents are or have been engaged in community service.
Transform the life of a young person, by joining Wyman and honorary Chairman, Dan McLaughlin, on Monday August 16, 2010 at Whitmoor Country Club as we hold the 30th Anniversary Wyman Golf Tournament.
Our 2010 Lead Sponsors Include:
Kirberg Company
Bill Voss Agency, Inc. American Family Insurance
Dave & Cheryl Morley
Southside Lions
This year’s event promises to be outstanding with all participants receiving a Cleveland CG12 Wedge! We have course contests with exciting prizes, dinner and a wonderful auction. But the key part of our success for this event is you!
Consider a sponsorship at any level! Your contribution will provide the supports and opportunities that are necessary for a young person’s success in school and life.
Teens in their third year of the Wyman Teen Leadership Program, recently returned from Tennessee where they went whitewater rafting on the Ocoee River, hiking and camping in the Cherokee National Forest, toured Vanderbilt University and completed a service learning project in Nashville!
In partnership with the Harpeth River Watershed Association , the 33 Wyman teens pitched in with work on a Brentwood streambed as a part of the flood recovery efforts.
Wyman teens arrived just after noon and quickly formed into groups to accomplish the tasks of rolling revetments and driving anchors, followed by the final step of placing the revetments and sewing them into place, all done by around 4:00 pm. The group contributed over 150 volunteer hours to protect about 150 feet of severely eroded river bank that threatened to cut into the paved greenway trail in the near future had this project not been done.
And there work did not go unnoticed! Read more about their efforts in this article from The Tennessean.
On Sunday, April 25, Wyman President Dave Hilliard spoke with the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, Dan McLaughlin, about Wyman’s upcoming golf tournament and the need and impact of Wyman programs.
In case you missed it – listen to the full interview here.
