Saturday, April 10, will surely go down in TBS annals as a high point of our community’s energy, resolve, generosity, and openheartedness. Determined to honor the memory of our late Head of School, Janet Stork, who loved a good party almost as much as she loved the work of education, we pulled ourselves together and turned out in greater numbers, and raised more money, than we ever have before. We grossed about $100,000 for our teachers’ professional development, while enjoying each other and the wonderful space at the Craneway Pavilion. Dinner by Gregoire was predictably fabulous; the surroundings — an Italian piazza transplanted to the Richmond waterfront, courtesy of Mark Kohr, Marian Bradley-Kohr, and Elisabeth Ross — took our breath away; and some of us shook a little more than we’d planned when Lawrence Patrick started spinning tunes — everything from ABBA to Kelis. We were called to dinner by a long blast from a didjeridoo; we held babies while we danced; we endangered our children’s college funds to support the auction’s cause; and we made new friends while we reconnected with old ones. TBS thanks everyone who helped bring the auction to life, especially Auction Chair Signy Judd, as well as everyone who attended. See you next year!