1st Annual Surfing Heritage Roast & Auction to Honor Dick Metz and Spencer Croul
February 26, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
Created as a fun and ribald fund-raiser for the Surfing Heritage Foundation, this special night will feature the always-irreverent emcee, surf personality Robert "Wingnut" Weaver, with a celebrated roster of roasters including Greg Noll, Bruce Brown, and Hobie Alter.
"This will be the first ever Roast in the sport of surfing. It's about time we cooked some of our sport's most cherished characters!"
Special auction items: A week at an architecturally unique Baja surf pad, a weekend of perfect surf with Wingnut & Micky Munoz at "The Hollister Ranch", a rare collection of historical fine art photo prints from the Foundation's archive, a thrilling private flight on a restored P-51 WWII fighter aircraft, and a whale watching cruise for four aboard a lavish private yacht followed by dinner and drinks at the Wind & Sea Restaurant.
The Surfing Heritage Foundation preserves wave-riding history and culture via the collecting and archiving of historical surf craft, photography, oral histories, films and videos, artwork, printed matter, and other items of significance. As the earliest of our sport's pioneers depart, their memories and historical perspectives leave as well, unless we can save them for future generations.
Founder, Dick Metz, is a long time surfer from Laguna Beach, who tipped legendary surfing documentary producer, Bruce Brown about South Africa, where he filmed the most spectacular segment for his seminal 1965 film, "The Endless Summer". Later, Dick partnered with Hobie Alter to establish Hobie Sports, the first successful chain of surf & sport retail outlets. During those years, Dick began collecting the historical surfboards that help comprise the nucleus of the current Foundation collection. Metz established the 501(c)(3) foundation in 1998, as a lasting home for his collection.
Co-founder, Spencer Croul, a Newport Beach surfer and active surfboard collector whose family founded Behr Paint, teamed with Metz, and they combined their collections into the largest, most significant in the world. Spencer also provides the facility in which the Foundation currently operates. The on-going contributions of both men, as well as a prominent Board, dedicated staff, and a host of volunteers have brought The Surfing Heritage Foundation to its current position as the surfing world's most renowned archiving and preservation effort.
For more information or tickets:
Contact: SHF at 949 388 0313 x5 or visit www.surfingheritage.org
Event Info
March 8, 2009
6:30- 9:30 PM
The Cannery Restaurant
Newport Beach
Couples $550, singles $300
(Tickets limited to the first 100 respondents)
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