Wednesday, Oct. 15 was a lucky day for Denise Eiler. The Pennsylvania woman received a 10 a.m. phone call from David Shaw of St. Michaels Rotary Club.
He informed her she had just won a brand new 2025 Mustang Convertible raffled off by the club.
“I’m going to freak out!” she said, her joyfulness tickling the phone connection. “Just last week I told my husband ‘Honey, I think I’m going to win that car!’”
“And now you have,” Shaw told her.
Rotarians Mike Friedberg and Steve Friedberg delivered the car to her Pernnsylvania address one week later.
Proceeds from ticket sales for the car will fund thousands of dollars of scholarships for graduating seniors at St. Michaels High School. The scholarships help pay expenses at colleges and vocational schools.
St. Michaels Police Chief Jeff Oswald drew the winning ticket from a spinning barrel containing the approximately 1,900 or so stubs from the tickets sold since last spring.
Eiler was visiting her sister, who is local, this summer when she purchased her chance on the Mustang. She made the buy from ticket sellers posted at their familiar location with the car at the corner of Talbot and Railroad streets in the heart of St. Michaels.
St. Michaels Rotary Club members have been raffling off classic, restored Mustangs since the 1980s, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars for scholarships. This was the first year a new Mustang, in collaboration with Preston Ford, was raffled. Typically the club raffles a classic Mustang every other year.
With the 2025 drawing in the rear view mirror, the club has returned to its classic Mustang formula. Members have now settled into their corner on Saturdays to sell tickets for a 1966 V8 Mustang convertible. The drawing for that car will take place during the annual Christmas in St. Michaels celebration in 2026.
For more information on St. Michaels Rotary Club and its Mustang raffles, please take a look at rotarystm.org.
