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Contest Rules
Winner of the contest (designated the “Mystery Host of the Gala”) is to receive a table of ten to the 2005 AAO Foundation Gala to be held the evening of Saturday, May 21, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
The identity of the contest winner, or Mystery Host, is to remain a secret until the evening of the event and this person will be “unmasked” by the Phantom of the Opera towards the end of dinner.
The location of the Mystery Host’s table will be strategically placed so that the guests of this benefactor will have some of the very best seats in the house.
If the contest winner does not wish to use the table or all ten places, then the AAOF will fill the empty places with persons who are to be designated as guests of the winner and the AAOF. Those attending the Gala as guests of the Mystery Host will not be told the identity of their benefactor, and we would ask that the Mystery Guest also keep this in confidence.
The contest winner will be determined by a drawing from among those persons who are responsible for raising an aggregate of $25,000 in pledges (whether first-time pledges or pledge increases) between January 1 and May 1.
Those eligible for the drawing will receive one chance for every $25,000 raised, i.e., if an individual raises $50,000 during the period of the contest, then the individual will receive two chances, etc.
Persons who pledge to the AAOF during the time of this contest, may credit themselves as having raised the pledged amount and thus may use the amount of their pledge to qualify (or help qualify) for the contest, e.g., Dr. Smith increases a $10,000 pledge to the Regent level ($25,000), thus “raising” $15,000 and then only has to be responsible for securing on behalf of the AAOF an additional $10,000 in order to have raised $25,000 and thus to be eligible for the contest. Another example, of course, would be for Dr. Jones to increase a current Regent ($25,000) level pledge to the Fellow ($50,000) level and thus, having “raised” $25,000, as well as pledged that amount, would be eligible for the contest.
In as much as the Foundation has announced previously that no requests for refunds would be honored after April 1, the winner may not opt that a previously purchased table or place(s) be refunded.
We recognize that no one is likely to become a volunteer on behalf of the AAO Foundation Endowment Campaign, A CASE FOR THE FUTURE, solely in order to be eligible for this friendly and collegial competition. However, we certainly hope that the chance to become the Mystery Host at the Foundation’s Phantom of the Opera Gala might encourage at least some of our friends and colleagues to be especially helpful between now and the San Francisco meeting in the Foundation’s efforts to help ensure the future vitality of the specialty of orthodontics.
For more information, please call Terry Duncan (SWSO/KS), AAOF President, or Mr. Robert Hazel, AAOF Executive Vice President, at 800/424-2841, #246.
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