Workshops
Afraid of Math? Take a Number
Rim Editors Forum
Alternative Press
Forest Through the Trees
Quality Control on a Small Desk
Between the Lines
Improv Editing
Editing Voices of Color
Code Blue
Silent Auction
for ACES Education Fund
Conference-goers brought
their checkbooks to Long Beach and shopped till they dropped at the annual
silent auction.
This year's
auction brought in more than $4,000, which will go into the ACES education
fund, which pays for the ACES scholarships and other educational programs.
The total raised was nearly $1,000 more than the previous conference, in
Baltimore.
Fetching the
highest bid this year was a pair of airline tickets to anywhere in the
United States, donated by Newsday. John Rice of the Houston Chronicle placed
the winning bid at just more than $400.
Another
popular item was a sightseeing plane tour of New York City, donated to
the auction by pilot and ACES member Bev Weintraub, who works at the New
York Daily News.
In Style
magazine, meanwhile, donated two gift bags loaded with more than $300 worth
of cosmetics. Auction organizer Thad Ogburn said his female coworkers had
ooh'd and aah'd over the items.
The Los Angeles Times
donated a color Game Boy and a wealth of GameBoy and PlayStation software,
so attendees could bring something home to the kids.
Additional items
for sale included the usual media-logo T-shirts, baseball caps and briefcases,
along with books, posters and even a model of an old-fashioned newspaper
carrier's bicyle, which was donated by The Plain-Dealer.
