A sale of costume items, perhaps the fastest sale in history, was timed perfectly by the Fredonia Department of Theatre and Dance for the Halloween season. The department noted, “We can put elastic in costumes – but we can’t get it into our walls!”
The sale, slated to run throughout the day last Wednesday in the Williams Center multipurpose room, lasted less than 30 minutes, during which a truckload of costumes were purchased by dozens of people who had waited for the event to begin.
Plans began when costume shop faculty Laurel Walford and Dixon Reynolds started cleaning out the overstuffed costume storage, clearing out items not stage worthy, not reusable, or in excess of existing inventory. Student volunteers from the department and the Interactive Theatre Society, whose members are creating this year's "Terror in the Trees," loaded a truck, unpacked the goods at the Williams Center, and helped with the sale. Ms. Walford noted at the speed of the sale, "I was truly stunned, and completely delighted."
Sales totaled $1,123 and the majority raised will go toward the Tim Douglas Jensen Class of 1990 Scholarship fund in the Fredonia College Foundation. It is hoped the fund will reach the full endowment level of $10,000 by the end of 2009.
