5th Annual Auction for SGA Scholarship FundsAnnual Meeting Home | Registration | Pre-Conference Workshop | Auction!
From the desk of our honorable auctioneer, the illustrious Gilbert Head...
Items can either be brought in person to the SGA Annual
Meeting in November, or sent to the following address: Gilbert Head,
University Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602- 1641. (Questions about the auction can be
addressed to the same place, or to Gilbert Head at: eghead@uga.edu)
If you are bringing the item to Augusta, please plan to drop it off at the
auction table during registration. This table will also provide a place to
make a "silent bid" for those unable or uninterested to
participate in the live auction. If you are planning to contribute something, please prepare
a 3" X 5" card for each item with your name, a brief description
and any details which you think might enhance sale of the item, whether you
wish to target the proceeds to a specific fund (the Carroll
Hart Scholarship to attend the Georgia Archives Institute; the Larry
Gulley Scholarship to attend the Annual Meeting; the Edward
Weldon Scholarship to attend the Society of American Archivists Annual
Meeting; or the David B.
Gracy II Award [administered by the Editorial Board of Provenance]),
and whether or not you wish to have an assigned minimum bid (though we ask
that you limit this last request, as the object of the auction is to raise
money for these various worthy funds).
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As I was saying only last year about this time, I rambled on
in somewhat Faulknerian terms on the passing of the seasons, but at this
writing, we are catching our collective breaths (yet again) in a season of
cyclone and maelstrom, and the poetry of crashing trees and perforated
rooftops is beyond my meager talents. Thus, this year, a more
straightforward entreaty. I represent (heck, this year, I even Chair) the
Scholarship Committee for the Society of Georgia Archivists, and by virtue
of this auction having originally been my idea, find myself yet again in the
position of serving for spokesman for this, the fifth edition of the SGA
Scholarship Auction. As in years gone by, 100% of the proceeds of this
auction will go towards the myriad scholarships and awards administered by
the SGA, and again as in those long ago days, we again submit a few examples
of the sorts of treasures one might be expected to bid upon or perhaps
donate in this worthy enterprise. Some of these items will look familiar,
and yet others will be new, in our never-ending quest to broaden the scope
of delights from the overburdened footlocker of culture's bounty. 
It should be remembered that these sample items are intended
to suggest possibilities for donation, and to whet the appetite of potential
bidders but not necessarily to limit the scope of those things to be placed
upon the block…....
These items are not meant to define the parameters of what
we will accept as an auction item, but rather to give some idea of the scope
of what we hope to be offering. We will not be accepting firearms or
alcoholic consumables for this auction, but will be grateful for whatever
else you might wish to donate.
And
even those who do not donate can participate! Bring us your money (we'll be set
up to take cash or checks, but not credit cards), and your finely honed bidding
skills, and prepare to have a splendid time as we help our scholarship funds
grow. So heed yet again the clarion call of Jim Dandy (the official sock
monkey of the SGA Auction), and excavate your spare groats and farthings,
and come to Augusta ready to bid on treasures unimagined!