While I was up at the state fair, the alumni of the state fair youth choir held an auction that the current choir was required to attend. One of the items was a private workshop with our conductor. A boy in the current choir bid first, but was quickly outbid. After the bids rose to over $200, an alum from 1964 began to bid increasingly higher, not giving in. When he won the auction, he took the gift certificate, walked over to where the choir was sitting, and gave it to the boy who had bid first. The crowd gave him a standing ovation.