A humorous look at the daunting task of getting your child into the right college enlivened the BCNY Women’s Board Winter Luncheon.
On Thursday, February 2, 2012, featured speaker and author Andrew Ferguson offered his observations on the college admissions process. Mr. Ferguson spoke on his book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College before two hundred supporters of The Boys’ Club at The Metropolitan Club for the third annual Women’s Board Winter Luncheon.
Women’s Board member Karen Klopp, along with Tania Higgins and Hannah Buchan, were co-chairs for the event. Friends and members of BCNY’s Women’s Board, along with Women’s Board President Sara Ayres, filled The Metropolitan Club’s ballroom. In addition, Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News Channel was in attendance and made a special mention of BCNY and the luncheon on the February 2nd airing of Fox’s “The Five” news broadcast. (Watch the video below for her remarks.)
Ferguson entertained the guests with tales of his maddening efforts to help get his son into college. Ferguson’s wit carried the day and, he reassured his audience, his son was now happily in college. Ferguson is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, author of Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces, and Land of Lincoln, and has been a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and The National Review, among other publications. In 1992, he was a White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. Each guest left with a copy of Ferguson’s book, Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College.
The Winter Luncheon serves to introduce a broader audience to the work of The Boys’ Club of New York, the nation’s oldest boys club founded in 1876. Through its clubhouses and summer camp, BCNY offers programs that help boys and young men stay in school and go on to college, discover their individual musical and artistic talents, develop healthy bodies, and just have fun. BCNY helps build boys into men of character with strong values, discipline, and a positive perspective that counters the negative forces found on city streets.
