Tomorrow! The moment you’ve all been waiting for! The Awesomeness Returns! After years of focusing 80% of our time on Betterment, 17% on Edification, and 4% on Unknown*, we’re bringing the Awesomeness back!

Clambake Society Scholarship Fundraiser Dinner!
6 PM Saturday June 9 at Rhinelander Country Club!

Described much more ably and promptly on our Facebook event page, so check that out! Probably goes without saying, but the people who have RSVPed yes on the Facebook event are a small fraction of those who will be there!

Great food! Confirmed silent auction items valued at over $2500, including a WXPR day sponsorship (!!), a 2 hour tattoo sitting (!!), tons of awesome food items, and a full week’s (!!) vacation (!!) at a Gulf Shores condo (!!). And there will probably be more last-minute stuff we don’t even know about yet! A didgeridoo? A cabbage? Advanced gene-splicing equipment? We don’t know! You’ll have to show up to find out!

* percentages don’t total to 100 due to rounding

Announcing! The 2018 winner of the Clambake Society Scholarship is Colton Krueger! The first future college athlete we’ve selected (as far as we were told, anyway!) (football at Hillsdale!), the creation he wrote about was also in the area of athletics! Frisbee baseball looks fun all around, but the diagram is what really sold us. Congratulations to Colton and since we’re posting this well after his first year at college was done, we hope he had a great first year!

Thanks for another great year, everybody! Lots of good applications, and the choice between the final three was pretty tough! Winner to be announced RHS Scholarship Night as usual!

Fun fact about exclamation points! Our second application, in 2008, featured these “questions”:

• Write a mundane anecdote and make it exciting through the magic of punctuation!!!
• How many exclamation points have you written or typed in the past year?

The winner’s answer to the latter question included the line “I believe that exclamation points should only be used in extreme cases where they are warranted, such as losing a limb or buying a new car.” At the time, that was pretty close to The Clambake Society’s official position. But things change a lot in a decade, and we now believe the only sentences that don’t deserve exclamation points are the boring ones. Think about it. Thinking emoji.

Where’s, like, the “re-post” button on this thing? Everything’s the same as last year except the dates! Even if this website doesn’t always show it, we’re always excited to do this! Thanks everybody!

Get your eyes checked, because you are, in fact, seeing double! Hot on the heels of our successful 2016 fundraising campaign, Bare Bones* (Email) Blast 2016, comes the most hotly anticipated email of the year: Email Blast 2017: The Copy-Pastening. Our original idea for a new 2017 fundraiser did not come to fruition this year, but we continue to work on that idea and other new ideas behind the scenes, while also revisiting old ones. Watch this space for more info…

As always, we’d like thank everybody who has contributed in the past. With your help, we’ve collected more than $30,000 for awesome RHS graduates, and given scholarships to 12 of them. Your support means a lot to us, because giving back, and remaining connected to Rhinelander, mean so much to us.

But without further ado, we’d like to direct you to the hardest working page on this site, the “Donate” page. While the 2018 tax code may end up being very different, your 2017 donations will still be tax deductible for sure. Receipts will be emailed to donors in January. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

* as we understand it, “half-assed” is not considered safe for polite conversation, so we’re not going to say that, even though “Half-Assed Email Blast” has such a nice ring to it.

Planning is underway for our (hopefully) big and gigantic 2017 fundraiser event in Rhinelander. It’s far too soon to actually announce the event, because there are many moving parts and many different ways it could go when starting a brand new endeavor like this. What we can say (but not “announce”) is that we’re working on putting together an event on RHS Homecoming Weekend, and that we’re hoping to open things up and attract a wider group of people than we’ve had at the fundraising dinner events we’ve thrown in the past. Watch this space for more barely-informative posts up until the point when we can actually announce something! And save the date! September 30th! Time of day not yet known!

Many thanks to everybody who pitched in for our bare bones 2016 email blast fundraiser! We continue to be overwhelmed by your generosity, particularly in helping out for our first PayPal-only fundraising “event” when even the sales pitch isn’t very exciting. Thanks to you, in let’s say “a few short days during the hectic holiday season” (actually, nearly all the money came in the last 15 hours of the year, due to the timing of the big email blast), we pulled in more than enough to fund the 2016 scholarship and keep the momentum going as we head into 2017, a year that will see very big changes for our fundraising methods. More on that later, watch this space!

Again, many thanks to the donors who pitched in. We couldn’t do this without you all! THANKS EVERYBODY!