Rowing Club

Rowing Club Quiz Night

How do we measure success – is it a sold out well in advance attendance? Is it the amount of money raised, or the fun atmosphere and comradery of the night?  Is it having the involvement of many parts of our school community or the overwhelming help from volunteers?  However, you choose to measure it, our John XXIII College Rowing Quiz night was a resounding success! 

With the extremely popular Gin bar professionally manned and donated by Nicole Matthews (The Wine Thief – Leederville) has many new customers now, with bar servers Lizzie and Alex Eastwood; the amazing pre-quiz musicians Daniel Corvaia and Gianni Corvaia; with soulful singing by Adele Cole. Fast and furious Ergo competitions; superb and sublime wines donated and then served at the bar by Ceri Ellis, the Cole and Edwards families;  delicious desserts donated by our own amazing Amanda (Cupid Catering) queen; delightful and pun free (not) MC and speech by Mr Damien Broderick; and on top of that the quiz night entertainment – the night was certain to be an amazing hit !

Also, the wallet of our Rowing Club will be larger by many thousand as a result of this fundraiser, and we are much closer to purchasing our next rowing craft. (Yes, these boats are expensive!) An overwhelming thank you must go to our wonderful Quiz Night organisers Jo Cole and Naomi Lawrence who both spent many days and hours in the planning and organising of this event.  They wish to thank also Rob Thomas, Ric Del Pizzo, Doug Watson and Jeff Janssen as well as all the Rowing Year Coordinators and the wider rowing community for their donations and help on the night.

Lastly thanks to everyone who attended and supported the evening – it was a great family and community event for all, very typical of the John XXIII community spirit which our school is so blessed to have.