By Sandi Gedeon, Business Manager
Bing Nursery School held its annual children’s fair this year on Sunday, May 20, 2018. Over 600 families of Bing Nursery School children—current and alumni—spent the day at the school enjoying many activity and craft booths and entertainment, including Sparkle Strings (featuring Bing teacher Tracy Wu), Magical Moonshine Theatre Puppet Show and Stanford Salseros (featuring Bing teacher Tayna Gonzales Rivera). The incomparable Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band closed the fair and was a huge hit with children and adults.
Over 200 parents prepared goods for the bake sale and the food booths. Cupcakes, brownies and sweets of all kinds were popular, and nobody could pass up the delicious variety of food, from American macaroni and cheese to tacos to samosas. In addition, many businesses made donations, including food and volunteers to help staff the fair, as well as cash. Special thanks to our generous donors: Avanti Pizza, Bird Dog Restaurant, California Pizza Kitchen, The Cheesecake Factory, Dawn Correia, Costco, DAVIDs TEA, Draeger’s Market, Gerry’s Cakes, GNT Group, The Graceful Cookie, Patama & Saar Gur, Ali Hinkie, Jing Jing, Kumar Kittusamy, Las Juntas Restaurant, Brigette Lau & Chamath Palihapitiya, Lulu’s, Nola, Oren’s Hummus, Patxi’s Pizza, Peet’s Coffee, Pizza My Heart, Sophie Rahn, Sigona’s Farmers Market, Starbucks, TaskRabbit, The Market at Edgewood, Tin Pot Creamery, Trader Joe’s, Kristin Vogelsong & Zander Lurie and many Stanford sororities and fraternities.
On the morning of the fair, approximately 200 alumni families joined the Bing staff for breakfast. It was wonderful to see and talk with so many alumni children, as well as their parents, some of whom are Bing alumni themselves. We would like to thank our Bing Fair co-chairs, Cindy Dodd, Patama Gur, Emily Lopez and Kristin Vogelsong, for organizing a beautiful fair, as well as the over 300 parent volunteers who staffed the activity and food booths this year. Proceeds from the fair benefit the Bing Nursery School Scholarship Fund.
FAIR CO-CHAIRS: Cindy Dodd, Patama Gur, Emily Lopez, Kristin Vogelsong
ACTIVITY CHAIRS: Advanced Ticket Sales: Angelita Alves • Ticket Sales at Alumni Breakfast: Rowena Chiu • Bake Sale: Alexandria Boehm, Patricia Arrocha • Baseball Toss: Ore Adeyemi • Cake Walk: Luciana Serridge • Challenge Course: Reena Thomas • Cookie Painting: Catherine Ross Stoll, Kristen Wilsey • Duck Pond: Erik Thysen • Easel Painting: Judith Duval • Face Painting: Mirna Tuzovic • Finance/ Ticket Sales: Michelle Haghpanah • Fishing Hole: Yochai Zion Shavit • Handprints: Melisa Nunez • International/American Foods: Marta Gwiazdowska-Kowalska, Maddy Elles-Hill • International/American Foods Kitchen: Ele Mamayek, Sundari Chetty • Musical Instruments: Ben Serridge • Pizza Booth: Arturo Pereyra • Pocket Person: Bahram Parineh • Sand Castles: Louise O’Reilly • Saturday Set-Up: Summer Karam • Scavenger Hunt: Chris Philpot • Spirit Shop: Michelle Hug • Sunday Set-Up: Karina Etminani •Treasure Bags: Angel Zajkowski • Wood Gluing: Corinne Bright