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“The club’s generosity
shown at this year’s
Beverly Evans Day
surpasses any effort to
date by our
member clubs to
financially support
the Evans Scholars
Program.”
Don Johnson
President & CEO
WGA/ESF
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Scholarship Fundraisers
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Beverly Evans Day Nets Over $600,000
For the second straight
year, The Beverly Country
Club demonstrated
its support for the Evans Scholars
Foundation by sponsoring
the largest-ever single-day club
fund-raising event.
Led by major gifts to endow
four named Evans Scholarships,
Beverly members and
Evans Scholars Alumni made
commitments totaling more
than $640,000 for the Evans
Scholars Program.
“Our second annual Beverly
Evans Day was a resounding success,” said WGA
Director William Kingore, Beverly vice president.
In addition to raising more than $250,000
in current funds, the day drew deferred gifts of
$364,000 to endow the named scholarships.
Beverly WGA Directors and a group of Evans
Alumni from Beverly organized the event.
Alumni Joe Haffner (Marq. ’87) noted that the
support “shows how strongly Beverly’s members
and Evans Alumni feel about our long-standing
partnership with the WGA/ESF.”
In recognition of that partnership, Rich
Jalovec, on behalf of the Beverly Evans Day Committee,
presented WGA President and CEO Don
Johnson with the 2007 Beverly Country Club
Honorary Evans Scholar Award.
The club also announced that named scholarships
were endowed on behalf of James E.
Moore, Michael and Teresa Reilly, Thomas E.
Gorman and Edward P. Barr. Moore is ESF se-
Minnesota Evans Scholars caddied for the annual Chick Evans Memorial
Seven-Club Fundraiser and contributed more than $2,000 back to the Evans
Scholars Program from the caddie fees they earned.
WGA Director and Beverly member Bill Kingore presents a check representing
The Beverly Country Club’s 2007 Evans Scholars Day proceeds to WGA President
and CEO Don Johnson (second from right), Vice President of Tournaments John
Kaczkowski (right) and Senior Vice President of Foundation Advancement Jim
Moore (second from left).
nior vice president of foundation advancement.
The Reillys are parents of James (NU ’83) and
Michael Reilly (Ill. ’86), Evans Alumni who caddied
at Beverly. Gorman has served the past 20
years as the club’s caddie superintendent, and
Barr was his predecessor.
The day demonstrated the support that caddie
programs and the Evans Scholarships can generate
when club members are reminded of the
benefits of helping educate young caddies. The
club, which has hosted four Western Opens and
a Western Amateur, has produced the most Evans
Scholars – 277 Alumni and 19 current Scholars
– of any WGA member club.
“The Beverly Country Club has been one of
the premier clubs in our program, and the club’s
generosity shown at this year’s Beverly Evans
Day surpasses any effort to date by our member
clubs to financially support the Evans Scholars
Program,” said Johnson.
Minnesota Seven-Club
Minnesota’s annual Chick Evans Memorial Seven-Club
Fundraiser was held in August 2007 at Somerset
Country Club in Mendota Heights, with more than $35,000
raised for the Minnesota Evans Scholars Program.
The event limits participants to using only seven clubs in
commemoration of Chick Evans’ 1916 U.S. Open win at
The Minikahda Club in Minneapolis. Evans won that event
using only seven clubs.
The 15th annual event was chaired by WGA Director
Cheryl Schneider.
The 2008 Seven-Club tournament will celebrate the
50th anniversary of the Minnesota Chapter of the Evans
Scholars. It will be hosted by the Minikahda Club on June
30.