For Immediate Release: September 25, 2024
Public Relations Office
Dawnie Slabaugh
Phone: (530) 938-5373
Email: slabaugh@siskiyous.edu
Weed – Siskiyou County residents have supported its students by providing thousands of dollars in scholarships for the past 38 years. In 2023, the community showed its support at the annual COS Foundation Scholarship Fundraising Dinner and Dessert / Auction by raising over $10,000 to support Siskiyou County students and the Siskiyou Promise scholarship fund.
The College of the Siskiyous Foundation will again host this fun-filled event on Saturday, October 12 in Weed at the Sons of Italy Memorial Hall. Tickets are on sale and cost $30 per guest. Doors will open at 5:30 pm and the dinner will be served at 7:00 pm. The members of Sons of Italy will staff the no-host bar and prepare and serve a delicious buffet dinner of pasta with homemade meatballs. During this event, guests will also have the opportunity to raise money for the Siskiyou Promise fund by participating in the dessert auction, silent auction, or the Coat of Many Colors auction.
Since 2016, nearly 950 graduates from Siskiyou and Modoc County high schools have attended College of the Siskiyous as first year Promise students. This year, over 100 students will attend College of the Siskiyous as first year Promise recipients, and approximately 45 as second year recipients. The Siskiyou Promise scholarship pays for tuition and fees. Students must be enrolled as a full-time Siskiyous student to be eligible for funding.
"Our students are our number one priority," said Dawnie Slabaugh, Director of Public Relations and the College Foundation. "The mission of the College is to promote learning and provide academic excellence for our students. The COS Foundation supports the mission of the College and the Promise award supports our own local students," continued Slabaugh. "Each and every one of the members of the College of the Siskiyous Foundation Board of Directors is very passionate about education and College of the Siskiyous. Providing support for the Promise fund is a huge commitment and one of the many activities the Foundation is very proud of. The Foundation is not only helping students to succeed, they are helping to change lives."
One of the highlights of this annual event is the auctioning of the Coat of Many Colors and Mongolian Fur Hat. In 1986, former COS President Dr. Eugene Schumacher donated the Coat, a gift from a Middle Eastern exchange student, to be auctioned off and worn by the lucky winner to a designated event or meeting. That year, the Women's Basketball and Volleyball Coach Tom Powers was the lucky recipient. Several years later the Mongolian Hat was donated by Ernie Nagel of Mt. Shasta. Since 1986, approximately 34 "lucky" individuals have had to wear the coat to designated functions. In 2023, the recipient of Coat of Many Colors was Regina Weston, Director of Basecamp at College of the Siskiyous.
For more information about this event, the College of the Siskiyous Scholarship Program, the Siskiyou Promise Scholarship, or if interested in joining the COS Foundation Scholarship Committee or learning about the Foundation Board of Directors, call (530) 938-5373 or send an email to foundation@siskiyous.edu. The Weed Campus can also be reached by calling (530) 938-5555 or toll-free (888) 397-4339. Information about the COS Foundation can also be found online.
mySiskiyous
Athletics