What do soap and eggs have in common?

Several thousand dollars.

Covered in suds, Preston Hollow students waxed on and waxed off to raise more than $7,400 during a recent car wash.

Lamplighter‘s Young Alumni Association participated in the private school’s third-annual car wash May 18 to help pay for the land the school acquired from Hockaday in 2010, while also collecting accessories for the nonprofit Attitudes and Attire.

Young Alumni chairwoman Katherine Dau and fellow alumni organized the event and met every month to prepare for the car wash. They also visited local businesses and brought in Sander Siegel, Eatzi’s, KD Notes, Texas Cars Direct, JD’s Chippery and the Mosley and Durst families as sponsors.

Lamplighter alumni get to work

Head of School Joan Hill

Car wash crew

The students also recently raised about $1,500 to divide between the Lamplighter Land Fund, North Texas Food Bank and UNICEF with profits from Lamplighter Layers, the fourth graders’ chicken and egg business.

Students sold about 5,000 eggs during this past academic year.

Christina Goodman accepts a check worth $478 for James Carr and Victoria Harper.

Christina Goodman of the North Texas Food Bank accepts a check worth $478 from Lamplighter littles James Carr and Victoria Harper.

Selwyn Rayzor, Gowri Sharma, Everett Graves, Jenny Mitchell, Class of 2013, LL Layers- End of Year (6)

Lamplighter parents and UNICEF volunteers Selwyn Rayzor and Gowri Sharma accept a check worth $478 from lamplighter littles Everett Graves and Jenny Mitchell.