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2008 Fall Author Event - Alexander McCall Smith
You are invited to attend the 2008 Fall Author Event with Best Selling Author Alexander McCall Smith, on September 30, 2008 at the Ogden Eccles Conference Center. A social and book sale will begin a 5:30 P.M. followed by the author presentation at 6:30 P.M., dinner and a book signing.
Tickets are $70,$90, and $120 individually or tables are available for $700, $900. and $1,200. To purchase tickets call 801 737-7305. Please hurry and make your reservations as this event sells out months in advance.
2007 Fall Author Event - Billy Collins
You are invited to attend the 2007 Fall Author Event with 2001-2003 United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, on November 8, 2007 at the Ogden Eccles Conference Center. A social and book sale will begin a 5:30 P.M. followerd by the author presentation at 6:30 P.M., dinner and a book signing.
Tickets are $70,$90, and $120 individually or tables are available for $700, $900. and $1,200. To purchase tickets call 801 737-7305. Please hurry and make your reservations as this event sells out months in advance.
Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work as appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and the American Scholar. He is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Library "Literary Lion". His last three colllections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. He also frequently appears on National Public Radio. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note, but soon takes an unexpected turn. Poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. Collins sees his poetry as a "form of travel writing" and considers humor "a door into the serious".
2007-2008 Calendar
In addition to our many year-round programs, here are some of the events that are especially popular with students and teachers.
September
Utah State University Junior Engineering Program at elementary schools
Major Grant Project – Ogden High School Historic Preservation and Ben Lomond Reconstruction
Author Sir Christian Bonnington speaks to the high schools
October
Minigrant Program Awards
Incentives For Excellence Requests
Lagoon Frightmares Fundraiser
Utah Waters Van visits Elementary Schools
November
The Living Planet Aquarium/Rain Forest Van visits elementary schools
Clark Planetarium Outreach Van visits elementary schools
Billy Collins Fall Author Event – November 8th 6:30 P.M. Ogden Eccles Conference Center
December
Reading Express Bus (Accelerated Reader Program Incentive) visits elementary schools
Swanson Christmas money distribution
January
Reflections Contest Student Awards
February
BYU Play The Jungle Book -- Children’s Theater at Elementary Schools
March
BYU Play The Jungle Book -- Children’s Theater at Elementary Schools
Celebrate Shakespeare Free Public Performance at Ogden High's Auditorium
April
Visiting Artists
Elementary Author
May
Ogden School Foundation Golf Classic
Reading Express Bus (Accelerated Reader Program Incentive) visits elementary schools
Year Round
Field trips to the Treehouse Children’s Museum
Convergys Partnership
Hill Air Force Base field trips
Payroll Deduction
Educational Enhancement Endowment
In-kind donations
Focus on Excellence Staff Awards
Memorial Donations
Swanson School Warehouse Project for needy kids
Union Station field trips
Visiting Authors