This announcement’s for you supporters of Pearson United World College: it’s a fundraiser for scholarships that also gives you an original painting by Theo Dombrowski on your wall. Not bad, right? For the month of August 2025, reunion month at the college, Theo will donate all you spend on paintings sold through his website to the college’s scholarship fund.

So…how?

• First, see if there’s a painting you want. The prices are marked. https://theodombrowski.net
• Then contact Theo (dtheoquayle4@gmail.com) to make sure it’s still available, confirm the price, and together figure out the best way of getting it to you.
• Next, donate the cost of the painting directly to Pearson College for the scholarship fund (Canadians get tax receipts), confirm your donation with Theo, and reimburse him for what you both figure the postage will cost.
• Last, receive your painting — and hang it somewhere nice!

If you check out Theo’s website more fully, you’ll find lots you recognize in how Pearson people try to help, in ways they can. When they retired from Pearson, he and Eileen considered international volunteer work as a way to “give back” — but it quickly hit them that the world wasn’t exactly panting for their involvement. “Who needs to know about symbolism in Hamlet in a country that doesn’t have clean water?” (Sigh. Could apply to Canada, right?)

Instead, Theo’s choice has been to write outdoor guidebooks (nine of them!!!) and paint, donating the royalties and sales to causes he supports, from home . He gives mainly to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), but for the reunion month of August, he’ll donate all to Pearson College. And if you choose one of his paintings, so will you.