IYRS Summer Gala raises $1M+

(Updated, 10:05 a.m., July 27)
NEWPORT – About 650 supporters attended the 18th annual IYRS Summer Gala recently, raising more than $1 million for the organization.
With guests dressed casually, the July 11 event at the IYRS campus included a cocktail reception, silent auction, beach-party style dinner, live auction and dance party with the Beach Boys – including original members Bruce Johnson, Michael Love and David Marks.
Formally known as the IYRS School of Technology & Trades, IYRS is an experiential learning school that teaches technical and craft-oriented career skills across a range of industries using materials from traditional wood to modern composites.
The school has a greater than 90 percent rate for placing students in jobs, said IYRS President Terry Nathan.
“We are preparing people who are ready for jobs both in and outside the marine trades,” Nathan said. “The people who deserve the most credit are the faculty. Anyone that has ever been involved in education knows how difficult and how much energy it takes day in and day out to fulfill curriculum.”
Kate and Jimmy Gubelmann, Anne and Matt Hamilton and Helene and Archie van Beuren served as 2015 Gala co-chairpersons. Title corporate sponsors included Jaguar, the Prestige Family of Dealerships and Tiedemann Wealth Management. Twenty-nine other sponsors supported the event.
“This is a fantastic organization that is doing exactly the right sort of thing for education at the right time for what America needs in the terms of education in learning practice skill. So their tag line ‘Make Anything Possible’ is what is going to happen,” said James A. Hilton, board of trustees and development chairman.
A previous version of this story omitted listing Kate & Jimmy Gubelmann, and Anne and Matt Hamilton as co-chairpersons of the 2015 Gala.

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