An Evening on the Red Carpet

Parents, Alumni, and Friends of TRA were treated like celebrities at the Vision Banquet on March 23rd. They paraded through the velvet ropes into Founders Hall on a 50-foot red carpet to share in an enchanted evening filled with wonderful food, entertainment and excitement about the upcoming expansion of our campus.
Alumni Justin Hanson who currently works as an Evening Assignment Editor for WMCTV, served as the Master of Ceremonies for the evening. He welcomed to stage past Talent Show Winners from each school, who sang movie themes to further enhance the Hollywood atmosphere. Miss Maddye Regis sang Favorite Things from the Sound of Music and Logan Vaughn performed When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio.
Many members of our TRA Family shared with the audience their past experiences. Bart and Melia Garey and their children have been named as our Honorary Family for the Continuing the Tradition Campaign. Mr. Garey shared special memories from the years his four children have spent here. Dale Creasy was also a featured speaker who shared how TRA shaped his early life and how it is continuing to shape the lives of his family.
After much anticipation, Mr. Scott unveiled the floor plans and the architect’s renderings of the new high school and the elementary expansion. He later conveyed the Board’s immediate and long-term plans for the school.
The Vision Banquet was also the night to kickoff the Continuing the Tradition Capital Campaign. Lori Regis, the Director of Development, presented a check for $302,974.70 to the school from individual donors. She then challenged TRA families to give enthusiastically, in the same manner as these previous donors. For the finale, Amanda Horvath, who has been chosen as Dorothy in the upcoming High School Drama Production of Wizard of Oz, closed the evening with Somewhere Over the Rainbow.