Senior Soiree

French, pronounced "Swa-rah"

Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:30pm-8:30pm
Fields Dining Room
Templeton Student Center
Immediately following Baccalaureate.

Please join fellow graduating seniors and their families in a celebratory evening honoring the seniors and their achievements.

The evening will include toasts to seniors, a welcome from the Alumni Association, live music, and a wonderful Northwest buffet featuring organic and sustainable foods catered by Bon Appetit. To complement the rich flavors of our Northwest spread, we will also feature Oregon-grown wines. Seating is limited to 400 people.

This year, the Class of 2008 will be joined at the Senior Soiree by President Tom Hochstettler, Dean of the College Julio de Paula, and members of the Board of Alumni who are serving as hosts.

The per-plate price is $25. Buffet price includes buffet dinner, dessert, coffee, tea and two glasses of wine or champagne or non-alcoholic beverages.

Tickets are available through this website Soiree Tickets, or through the Office of the Provost at 503-768-7200.

Tickets will also be available at Commencement Countdown, March 4-5, 2008. Tickets are expected to sell quickly, so please make your reservation now.

If you would like to make an additional contribution to the Senior Gift, you may do so on the Soiree Tickets Page.

Kate Ritchie '07 toasts her classmates.

Northwest Buffet Menu by Bon Appetit

Northwest Buffet
*Fingerling potato salad with warm mustard vinaigrette
*Millennium Farms spinach salad with crispy shallots and Oregon blue triticale with charred asparagus, oyster mushrooms and herb vinaigrette
*Grilled Vegetables with harissa
*Roast Northwest Heritage pork loin with apple chutney and braised leeks
*Cedar Planked Hood River arctic char with fennel marmalade and grilled bitter greens
*Vegan portobello and porcini mushroom stroganoff

Desserts
*Chocolate hazelnut cheesecake
*Vanilla panna cotta with stewed prunes
*Ginger crème brulee with mint chantilly
*Fresh strawberries and cream parfait

Assorted Oregon wines and other beverages
*Oregon wines from alumni vintners
*Coffee, Tea , Water

Drink scrip included in ticket price (two drinks per ticket)at door.