{"id":13501,"date":"2011-11-15T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2011-11-17T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:07:04","slug":"soiree-raised-thousands-for-student-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/11\/soiree-raised-thousands-for-student-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Soir\u00e9e raised thousands for student scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent General Brock\u2019s October Soir\u00e9e gala event at Brock netted more than $55,000, and will result in double that amount going toward financial support for students.<\/p>\n<p>When leveraged with the Ontario government\u2019s match program, the event will have generated $110,000 to support student scholarships, including for students of the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/fine-and-performing-arts\" target=\"_blank\">Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The University would like to emphasize its gratitude to the sponsors whose support helped make the event such a success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln Fabrics (lead sponsor)<\/li>\n<li>Ned Goodman Investment Counsel Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>Architects Alliance<\/li>\n<li>EllisDon<\/li>\n<li>MBNA<\/li>\n<li>Rankin Construction Inc.<\/li>\n<li>St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce<\/li>\n<li>TD Insurance Meloche Monnex<\/li>\n<li>Walker Industries Holdings Limited<\/li>\n<li>Whiting Equipment Canada Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General Brock\u2019s October Soir\u00e9e is a fundraising gala held each autumn to commemorate the University\u2019s namesake, Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock, who commanded British troops in the War of 1812. The event is a modern celebration interwoven with themes from this historic period in Canadian history.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its fourth year, the Soir\u00e9e has raised more than $250,000 to date to support student initiatives and strategic priorities at Brock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent General Brock\u2019s October Soir\u00e9e gala event at Brock netted more than $55,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3332,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}