11TH ANNUAL YOUNG SCHOOL BENEFIT
Forever Young includes silent and live auctions

Catalogue online at www.foreveryoungbenefit.org

St. Helena, California, winter 2010---Forever Young, The Young School’s eleventh annual benefit fundraiser, takes place on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at Quintessa (1601 Silverado Trail, Rutherford 94573) at 5:30 p.m.. The evening will consist of silent and live auctions and hors d’oeuvres and dining savories by Restaurant Tra Vigne, flamenco guitar by Jason Walters and jazz from The Hot Club of Marin, all with Quintessa’s handsome interiors as the dramatic backdrop. Lots will include unusual, hard-to-find wines as well as an inviting array of special events, behind-the-scenes tours at wineries and more. The catalogue and proxy bidding form are online at www.foreveryoungbenefit.org.

Tickets are $100/person, only in advance, from one of the websites or by calling 707/967-9909.

Many of the items are being offered in preview form or for bidding online at BiddingForGood.com (link above).

The auction will include:

• Tasting experiences and wines from Abreu, Araujo, Arietta, Aubert, Beaulieu, Bell, Blackbird, Bond, Brassfield Estate, Castello di Amorosa, Caymus, Chateau Montelena, Clos Pegase, Corison, Covenant,  Date Night, Ehlers, Etude, Failla, Far Niente, Foley, Frog’s Leap, Groth, Hagafen, Hanzell, Harlan, Inglenook, Judd’s Hill, Kenward, Kongsgaard, Lang & Reed, Miner, Oakville Ranch, Orsi Papale, O'Shaughnessy, Patz & Hall, Phelps, Pine Ridge, PlumpJack, Sequum, Shafer, Sinskey, Sloan, Stag’s Leap, Twomey Cellars, ZD and more
• a collection of wines from 23 “red hot mamas,” women winemakers in Napa Valley (the wines include Corison, Corra, Drinkward-Peschon, Failla, Rasmussen, Oakville Ranch, Phifer Pavitt and more)
• a collection of  wines from the Howell Mountain appellation (Cakebread, CADE, Dunn, Ladera, Lamborn, Outpost, Retro,Turley)
• a collection of wines from the Spring Mountain District appellation (Barnett, Cain, Fife, Charbay, Frias, Guillliams, Hollywood & Vine, Juslyn, Keenan, Marston, Newton, Paloma, Peacock, Pride, Schweiger, Sherwin, Smith-Madrone, Spring Mountain Vineyard, Stony Hill, Togni, York Creek Vineyards)
• a private tour of Napa wineries conducted by Wine Bible author and CIA instructor Karen MacNeil
• a blending experience with winemakers Bob Levy & Martha McClellan of Levy & McClellan
• a collection of wine with Young School-student-designed labels
• a trip to Washington D.C. including lunch with Congressman Mike Thompson in the Members’ Dining Room, passes to the House gallery, tours of the Capitol and Supreme Court and accommodations at the Henley Park Hotel and a dinner at BLT Steak
• a Cabernet Franc adventure at Cindy’s Back Street Kitchen with the proprietors of Lang & Reed
• jetsetting experience with hotels and activities in SF, Napa and LA
• a day of visits to local artisanal food purveyors and dinner at Amy & Jerry Giaqunta’s home, prepared by Deborah Pollack of Local Eden with a dessert finale by Bouchon Bakery’s chef Matt McDonald, co-hosted by Anne-Marie Failla and Ehren Jordan
• a lavish tasting at Swanson Vineyards’ Salon and luncheon with winemaker Chris Phelps
• an abalone dinner in Storybook Mountain Winery’s redwood grove, with abalone freshly caught and prepared by Young School teacher Natalie Herdell’s husband Joe, complemented by Storybook’s wines
• a pheasant hunt with architect Peter Collins and vintner Stu Smith
• serigraph by Thomas Pradzynski donated by Caldwell Snyder Gallery
• portrait of Barack Obama in jellybeans
• a “burgers & bubbles” feast, an Indian feast with Indian dancing
• a yacht trip to a San Francisco Giants game with the co-founders of Alpha Omega, Robin Baggett and Eric Sklar
• events for children including a harvest experience for children, a Nimbus Arts children’s birthday party and ride in St. Helena’s antique fire truck, a father-son golf class at Napa Valley Country Club, a week of science summer camp.
  

The Young School is located at 957 Brown Street, St. Helena CA 94574. The School’s non-profit tax id number is 68-0338995.
 
Founded in 1991 by JoAnn Bell, The Young School is a private non-profit non-denominational Montessori-derived program for children ages 6 through 12 years old/first-sixth grades. The name of the school is taken from two sisters named ‘Young’ who were well-known Sonoma teachers several decades ago. The first Young School was founded in their home in downtown Sonoma. In 1997 the school moved from its Sonoma location to St. Helena in the Napa Valley.
 
The Young School operates as a ‘one-room schoolhouse’ in quarters rented from a church in a residential neighborhood of St. Helena. The Young School follows a ‘tutorial’ approach to education, where children are tasked on their abilities and interests; the School has a 12-1 student-teacher ratio and is respected for its rigorous academics complemented by frequent field trips, enrichment in foreign language classes and music programs as well as community outreach. Distinctive—and possibly unusual---about The Young School also is the level of parent involvement, whether the camping weekends the entire student/parent body participates in, or regular social celebrations and meetings. Also distinctive is that students spend their recess and P.E. time outside as a group, with all ages interacting equally and enthusiastically. The Young School is a well kept secret, pledged to keeping its tuition low to offer an affordable alternative for a classics-based, high teacher-student ratio school.

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