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Car Show Featuring ‘20s Classics to Benefit Scholarships

Release Date:
June 27, 2012
Contact:
Matt Heidt,
716-926-8792

HAMBURG, N.Y. – “A Classic Evening: Hilbert College Celebrates the Roaring ‘20s,” a vintage car show to support student scholarships featuring the award-winning collections of the Gernatt and Gacioch families, will be held from 6-8 p.m. Aug. 21 on Hilbert’s campus at 5200 South Park Ave., Hamburg.

The outdoor show in the campus quad will include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and music of the era by the Buffalo Swing Band. Cost is $100 per person. All proceeds will benefit Hilbert student scholarships.
 
Tickets may be purchased online at www.hilbert.edu/car-show (or click above image) or by contacting Alaina Houseknecht, special events coordinator, at 926-8938 or e-mail ahouseknecht@hilbert.edu. Event sponsorship opportunities also are available.

Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.