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- <text id=90TT2066>
- <title>
- Aug. 06, 1990: Business Notes:Fund Raising
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- FUND RAISING
- Rubber Ducky, You're the One
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> At high noon on Aug. 24, thousands of spectators are
- expected to line the banks of the Chicago River to witness a
- colorful moment in the annals of water sports. At the sound of
- an air horn, the waters will surge with the sleek forms of
- 30,000 highly competitive rubber ducks.
- </p>
- <p> The humble bathtub companions have suddenly become a hit on
- the charity fund-raising circuit. Participants in the derbies
- typically donate $5 to adopt a duck, which has a number printed
- on its bottom. The rubber duckies are dumped en masse into the
- water; as they float downriver across the finish line, a
- special duck trap scoops up the winners.
- </p>
- <p> The races are the brainchild of Eric Schechter, 30, a former
- Arizona real estate broker. He launched his first race in 1988,
- raising $150,000 for a Scottsdale drug-abuse prevention
- program. That success prompted him to found Great American Duck
- Races, which expects to handle 103 such events this year and
- post revenues of $1 million.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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