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 79 JFK AND BEYOND
Auction Heads South
They came, they saw, they bid. Some 200 alumni flocked to the Washington Club at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, in October for the first ever off-site Summer Internship Fund (SIF) auction.
With items like roundtrip tickets to Europe, lunch with the school’s new dean, David Ellwood, and an autographed copy of Barak Obama’s DNC keynote speech, the auction was able to raise more than $6,000 for students who want to work in low- or no-paying, public service jobs this summer. The idea to take the event on the road was spurred by DC-area alumni who said they loved the auction when they were students but couldn’t get to Cambridge every year. (For those who could, the main SIF auction was still held this year in Cambridge on December 2.)
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