THE EVE BALL

Please Join Us!
Friday, November 5th, 2010
8:00pm-Midnight
The Carolina Club

 
Franklin Street Yoga Center invites you to Chapel Hill's greatest Halloween Costume party "The Eve Ball" which is a benefit fundraiser for the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship.

If you are one of those people who go nuts every year when it comes to Halloween, the Eve Ball is the party for you. Dance to the beat of a fantastic  DJ, and enjoy the fabulous dessert bar. Costume contest begins at 11:00pm, so don't come as you are; come as you want to be and win a cash prize! 

By attending the event or becoming a sponsor you will be honoring Eve Carson's legacy.Carson, a senior from Athens, Ga., and UNC-CH's 2007-2008 student body president, was killed last March.One of her main goals as president was to create a merit-based scholarship for UNC juniors. In her memory, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in consultation with the Carson family, established the scholarship last year to honor balanced, ambitious students who have shown strong involvement in a leadership role at Carolina and have at least a 3.0 GPA in their first three undergraduate years.

The purpose of the fund is to celebrate and remember Eve’s love for the University and its students. This one-year merit scholarship was envisioned by Eve as a way to recognize individuals who began to realize their potential as leaders while attending Carolina. Students will apply for the scholarship during their junior year, with the monetary award being applied to their senior year as well as to a summer program between their junior and senior year.

Tickets:
In costume:
$25 per person in advance, $30 per person (cash only) the night of the event. Student rate $15 per person in advance, $20 (cash only) the night of the event.
If not in costume:
Tickets are $60.

Payment: In advance you can pay by cash, check or credit card. Checks made payable to the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship. Night of event payment: cash only.
 
Costume Contest is at 10pm:
Judges:

Cash Prizes $200 per category

Best Couple
Best Period Costume
Most  Original
Best Group
And the Big Prize MOST AMAZINGLY SPECTACULAR

Sponsorship Levels:
$500 "The Carolina Way"
Company Name listed on the website, newsletter feature & signage at event
$300 "The Bell Tower"
Company Name listed on the website and signage at event
$100 "The Old Well" Company
Name listed on the website

Checks are made payable to the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship. Please include a sponsorship donation information form with your sponsorship.

Download the sponsorship form here.

Please mail or drop off form to Franklin Street Yoga Center, 123B W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC  27516 or call us and we can pick it up. 919-929-0414

Eve Marie Carson, 22, was elected student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in February 2007. Her term would have ended in April, 2008.

A native of Athens, Ga., Eve was born Nov. 19, 1985. She came to Carolina in the fall of 2004 as the recipient of a prestigious Morehead Scholarship. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, she was a pre-medicine student majoring in both political science and biology. As a North Carolina Fellow, she was part of a four-year leadership development program for undergraduates.

While at UNC-Chapel Hill, she was extremely active in both leadership and service roles. As student body president, she was also a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees. She served as co-president of the Honors Program Student Executive Board and as a member of the Committee on Scholarships, Awards and Student Aide; the Academic Advising Program; and the Chancellor’s committee for University Teaching Awards.

Teaching and working with children were key service interests for Eve. In 2006, she taught science at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School in Chapel Hill as part of UNC’s INSPIRE program, whose mission is to encourage young students to pursue science as an interest. In her junior year, Carson was a tutor at Githens Middle School in Durham. She was also an assistant coach in the Girls on the Run of the Triangle, a character development program for girls ages 8-12 that uses running to teach values and a sense of self.

Eve's service extended well beyond the Triangle, however. In the spring of her sophomore year, she participated in a study abroad in Havana, Cuba, and she spent her summers working and volunteering in Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana as part of the Morehead Summer Enrichment program. "I credit my prior experiences, especially my past two Morehead summers, for preparing me to get along with pretty much whatever comes my way," she wrote in an e-mail posted on the Morehead Web site. On campus, she became involved in Nourish International, an organization started by UNC students in 2002 for hunger relief. Eve served as freshman volunteer coordinator (2004) and co-chair (2005) for the group.

The daughter of Bob and Teresa Carson, Eve was also the student body president of her high school, Clarke Central, in Athens, Ga. When she ran for the same office at Carolina, she was elected with 55 percent of the vote in a runoff with a bigger turnout than the previous year's general election.