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Saint Ignatius High School

Scholarship Drive

Student-driven. Student-focused. The annual Scholarship Drive raises more than $600,000 for tuition assistance through student fundraising. Purchase tickets to enter for your chance to win $50,000!

It's important to me to be a top seller because the Scholarship Drive is an opportunity for me to give back to a school that gives me so much.

Michael Shock '20
Scholarship Drive Top Seller
Michael Shock '20<br>Scholarship Drive Top Seller image

87th Annual Scholarship Drive

THANK YOU! Thank you to each of you for supporting the students and the drive. Thanks to you, our entire student body, and our top sellers we finished the drive raising $681,730 for student tuition assistance. A new record!

The winning ticket numbers:

$5,000 -  ET4TCLGH-422
$10,000 - H4NAMFHW-6
$50,000 - MEGMJDQ4-3

 



The History

Dating back to the spring of 1939, the Saint Ignatius High School Scholarship Drive has been a fixture of the school calendar. While it has taken many different forms, it has always depended on students, parents, alumni and the community of Greater Cleveland to reach its success.

The Scholarship Drive first began as an effort by our Fathers' Club. The club first sponsored a Bingo Night in 1938. At this event, a ten-cent raffle offering a $1,000 prize succeeded beyond expectations. As a means to help students pay tuition at the end of the Great Depression, the Board of Directors discussed the option of expanding the raffle into its own event. By 1940, this became the biggest moneymaker of all Fathers' Club events. The drive lasted for eight to nine weeks and ended in the beginning of May.

Prizes after World War II also reflected a dramatic shift in culture. As soldiers came home, prizes for the raffle reflected the demand for consumer goods. In 1946, the grand prize was a Ford Sedan. Other prizes ranged from a General Electric refrigerator to an electric roaster. In 1947, a "New Modern Home" at 20691 Stanford Avenue in Fairview, Ohio took its place as the grand prize. Tickets became fifty cents each, or a book of fifteen for six dollars.

Today, you can join by purchasing a $5 ticket for your chance to win the grand prize of $50,000.
 
Through the decades of the drive, its goal remains the same: to support tuition assistance making it possible for students of all financial backgrounds to attend Saint Ignatius High School.
 
Questions? Please contact Kimberlea Palsa, Director of Special Events and Parent Programs, at 
216-651-0222  ext 4283.

 


Scholarship Drive Moderators

Alicia Mayer
FACULTY

amayer@ignatius.edu

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Matthew Walcutt '16
FACULTY

mwalcutt@ignatius.edu


Kimberlea Palsa
DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS

kpalsa@ignatius.edu
(216) 651-0222 ext. 4283


Gabrielle Fredericks
ADVANCEMENT EVENT COORDINATOR

gfredericks@ignatius.edu

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