Position your business to benefit from this year’s most prestigious event – Wilkes University's Outstanding Leaders Forum – featuring Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and author of the renowned book Night. You and your business can sponsor this once-in-a-life-time event at an amount that fits your budget.
The exclusive event is presented by Wilkes University and the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership. Proceeds help the region’s brightest business students gain the knowledge and leadership skills needed to help our region grow into the future.
By becoming a sponsor, you can participate in:
a private reception at the Westmoreland Club
have your picture taken with one of the world’s great humanitarians
feature your business in a quality print program for hundreds of the region’s leaders to see,
position yourself with excellent seats for you, your family or employees.
Sponsored in part by
Elie Wiesel has transfixed audiences around the globe with stories of the world’s worst catastrophe and has dedicated his life to using his talents as an author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace.
When: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 - 8 p.m. Where: F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets at the F.M. Kirby Center Box Office, 570-826-1100 and 1-800-745-3000. Ticketmaster outlets and online at ticketmaster.com. All ticket subject to additional vendor fees.
Click here to download a pdf version of the brochure.
Primary Contact: Mildred Urban • (T) 570-408-4330 • (F) 570-408-7847 • Email
* The John Wilkes Society is a recognition society for annual donors to the Wilkes Fund who contribute at or above $1,000 each year. The membership roll will be prominently displayed in the Annual Report of Giving.
Elie Wiesel’s personal experience as a Holocaust survivor led him to be an ardent supporter of Israel, Wiesel was among the first to defend the causes of Soviet Jews, Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, Argentina’s “Disappeared,” Cambodia’s refugees, the Kurds, South African apartheid victims, famine victims in Africa, prisoners in the former Yugoslavia and most recently victims of genocide in Darfur.
