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Three ways to become a sponsor or purchase dinner tickets: • Go online to www.uwrf.edu/risingtodistinction • Use credit card by phone at (715) 425-3505 • Complete information on both sides and send with payment to: UWRF Foundation, 410 S. Third Street, 310 South Hall, River Falls, WI 54022 Payment Method: o Check (Payable to UWRF Foundation) o Credit Card (check one): o AMEX o Visa o MasterCard o Discover o Sponsors only - please bill me. Full payments due by April 1, 2014. Signature ______________________________________________ Billing Zip Code _____________ Account Number ________________________________________________ Exp Date __________ Complete both sides. Event Sponsorships Dinner Tickets Dinner Location Program Tickets Photo Pass and Sponsorship also Gift and Included Abbott Concert Hall Dessert Reception includes: Sponsorship Tickets Included Opportunities (Up to 4 people per pass) Platinum Sponsor 8 Private Dinner with 8 2 Recognition on All scholarship ($20,000) Bob Woodward event signage proceeds benefit Private Location Falcon Scholars, Underwriter 6 Private Dinner with 6 2 Recognition on unless otherwise ($10,000) Bob Woodward event signage designated by Private Location the sponsor. 4 Private Dinner with 4 1 Presenting Sponsor Bob Woodward http://go.uwrf.edu/ ($5,000) Private Location falconsch 2 Private Dinner with 2 1 *Chancellor’s Circle members Sponsor ($2,500) Bob Woodward are those who have made a gift Private Location of $1,000 or more to UWRF (any Sponsors may purchase additional General Admission Tickets at $45/each. Based on availability. designation) in the current or 1 per person 1 previous fiscal year ending June *Chancellor’s Circle 1 per person Buffet Dinner & 1874 Society $45/ea. Ballroom, UC 30. 1874 Society members have cumulative lifetime giving of General Admission 1 per person Buffet Dinner 1 per person $10,000 or more. Ticket $45/ea. Ballroom, UC University Advancement 410 S. Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 Register Online! www.uwrf.edu/risingtodistinction Courtesy of The Washington Post Washington of The Courtesy Third Annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner • Friday, May 2, 2014 featuring Bob Woodward Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Called the most famous investigative reporter in America by the New York Times, Bob Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Woodward’s latest book, The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government’s fiscal condition over three and one half years. Drawn from memos, contemporaneous meeting notes, emails, and in-depth interviews with the central players, The Price of Politics addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns: the condition of the American economy and how and why we got there. Providing verbatim, day-by-day, even hour-by-hour accounts, the book shows what really happened, what drove the debates, negotiations, and struggles that define, and will continue to define, the American future. In State of Denial: Bush at War Part III, Woodward provides his inside story of a war-torn White House, and how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress and often to themselves. Commenting on the legendary Washingtonian’s record, the New York Times has said, “Bob Woodward is the most famous investigative reporter in America.” Newsweek magazine excerpted five of his books in headline-making cover stories, 60 Minutes has featured three of his books, and three of Join Us in Welcoming Bob Woodward’s books have been made into movies. Woodward was born March 26, 1943 in Illinois. Bob He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his journalism career at the Montgomery County Woodward (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining the Post. He lives in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elsa Walsh, an author and writer for the New Yorker. He has two daughters, Tali and Diana. Woodward has co-authored or authored more #1 national best-selling nonfiction books than any contemporary American writer. SCHeDUle oF events 5:00 p.m. General Buffet Dinner • All the President’s Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976), both Watergate Riverview Ballroom books, co authored with Bernstein University Center • The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (1979), co-authored with Scott 5:30 p.m. Private Sponsors’ Dinner Armstrong with Bob Woodward • Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (1984) (limited availability) Private location • Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (1987) 7:00 p.m. Program with keynote address • The Commanders (1991) on the First Bush administration and the Gulf War by Bob Woodward • The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994) Abbott Concert Hall • Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999) Kleinpell Fine Arts Building 8:30 p.m. Exclusive Dessert Reception • Bush at War (2002) Chancellor’s Circle and • Plan of Attack (2004) 1874 Society Sponsors • State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (2006) Riverview Ballroom • The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008) __ (2008) University Center Includes photo with Bob Woodward • Obama’s Wars (2010) Scholarship Benefit Dinner Reserve Your Space Now! 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