[D9640general] [eFlash_Rotary] Digest Number 743

[Garry & Anne Krischock]

1. 1421:  Raffle winner turns down $30,000 prize 
Sun Dec 9, 2007 10:56 pm (PST) 
Raffle winner turns down $30,000 prize 

Marc and Lauren Jacobson What would you do if you won US$30,000? For 
Marc Jacobson, the answer was easy: Give it back. 

Jacobson bought the winning ticket in an annual charity raffle 
sponsored by the Rotary Club of Northbrook, Illinois, USA. When Joe 
Cavolick, the club member who sold him the ticket, called with the 
news, Jacobson immediately said, "Donate it back."

"Marc, the prize is a new car or $30,000," Cavolick told him. "Why 
don't you take a few minutes and give me a call back?"

Jacobson, 43, consulted with his wife, Lauren, and phoned 
Cavolick. "Joe, I don't take money from charities," he told him. 

Jacobson, who owns a financial services company in Northbrook, says 
he's been buying raffle tickets from Cavolick, a client of his, for 
five years. The club sells 800 tickets for $100 each and gives the 
proceeds to scholarships and local charities. Jacobson, who is not a 
Rotarian, is the second person to turn down the grand prize.

The club honored the Jacobsons for their generosity at a weekly 
meeting in November. "I believe donating money has always felt much 
better than [keeping] found money. This is found money," Marc 
Jacobson said before the event.

Jacobson says he's looking forward to buying a raffle ticket next 
year. He already knows what he'll do if he wins.

Source: Rotary International News
Courtesy: eFlash_Rotary
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