Minutes of the Hampden-Sydney College
Alumni Council Meeting
April 18, 2008

Alumni Association President Judd McAdams ’77 called the meeting to order and welcomed Council members back to Hampden-Sydney. 

A roll call was taken to record club attendance:

Club                                                    Attendees

Alleghany                                           Rusty Foster ’04

Atlanta                                                Frank Bedinger ’76

Blue Ridge                                         Tripp Butler ’91

Charleston, SC                                   Bob Calcote ’79

Charleston, WV                                 Richie Heath ’99

Charlotte                                            Mark duBose ’90, Judd McAdams ’77, Thomas Ralston ’06

Danville                                              Jimmy Bolton ’76, Bob Whitt ’78

Eastern Carolina                                Bo Taylor ’72

Martinsville                                        Bill Garrett ’74

New York                                           Andrew Gross ’86

Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill             Jason Hardy ’98, Jarrott Patteson ’07, Michael York ’98

Richmond                                           Matt Anderson ’04, Tom Crowder ’78, Tommy Davidson ’63, Chris

                                                            Dodson ’94, Larry Mansfield ’86, Aaron Marks ’98, Matt Michael ’95,

                                                            Derek Springer ’02, Don Whitley ’59

Roanoke                                             Shawn McMahon ’97

South Hampton Roads                       Blake Dozier ’05, John Ellis ’70, Roy Martin ’02, Andrew Sinclair ’03,

                                                            Baxter Vendrick ’98

Washington DC                                  Michael Blackwell ’01, Harrison Clark ’86, Bill Howard ’77

Clubs Attending and Representative(s)

The Alumni Association Board of Officers would like to commend the South Hampton Roads, Washington DC,

Charlotte NC, and Richmond Clubs for their above average representation.

Clubs Not Represented

Birmingham, Augusta/Rockingham, Baltimore, Bluefield/Tazewell, Charlottesville, Dallas, Eastern Shore, Fredericksburg, Halifax/South Boston, Jacksonville FL, Lexington, Lynchburg, Peninsula, Petersburg, Piedmont North Carolina, Southside, Wilmington NC, Winchester

Meeting Minutes

 President Walter M. Bortz III welcomed all attendees back to campus.  He shared good news regarding

Admissions applications, the Through These Gates Capital Campaign, student life, faculty affairs, and

athletics.  Hampden-Sydney has enjoyed a very successful year.

The Council heard several presentations:

Dr. Earl W. Fleck

For some years, schools and prospective students have been looking for a more reliable way to compare colleges and universities than the common and controversial rankings by U.S. News and World Report. Many colleges, including Hampden-Sydney College, have turned to the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to quantify students’ collegiate experience and progress. The NSSE collects information annually from freshmen and seniors at 1,200 baccalaureate degree-granting colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, about the quality of their undergraduate experience.

Results of the survey are divided into five benchmarks—level of academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, enriching educational experiences, and supportive campus environment—which allows for the comparison of data from year to year and from school to school. These data verify what we have long held, that our brand of the liberal arts curriculum is beneficial to our students.

By comparing our data from the two years our students participated in the survey (2003 and 2007), we can see improvements in the educational experience of the seniors who participated in the two surveys and in the educational experience of the sample group that took the survey as freshmen and again as seniors. These results demonstrate the “value added” to our students by their experiences here. In addition, our students score higher on the benchmark measures, as both freshmen and seniors, than students at comparable colleges as well as students from all participating colleges and universities. These comparisons can be seen in the accompanying graphs.

Interest in the NSSE has been growing in recent years. The survey is often the topic of articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, and it has appeared in a number of mainstream media outlets including USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. The Christian Science Monitor article “A Better Way to Shop for a College” (November 13, 2007) says, “Top-ranked schools in the US News list are the most reluctant to challenge that magazine’s system or participate in new methods, especially the increasingly popular NSSE. After all, they are already seen as being on top – even though by NSSE standards of ‘educational outcomes’ they may not be. Their low participation in NSSE, wrote former Harvard President Derek Bok in a 2006 book, helps confirm the impression that schools at the top of the US News rankings ‘are rarely leaders in seeking innovative efforts to improve student learning on their campuses’.”

At Hampden-Sydney, we continuously work to improve the experience of our students and to assess our progress. One example is the recent development and implementation of our Quality Enhancement Plan, “Creating Good Men and Great Leaders for a Culturally Diverse World,” which includes a variety of ways to teach our students about life beyond our campus. They are introduced to new cultures and given the opportunity develop relationships with people unlike themselves.

We are proud to participate in a program like the National Survey of Student Engagement that shows the progress our students make as they grow from teens into adults.

Level of Academic Challenge

In order to learn, students must be challenged. By asking questions like how much time they spend preparing for classes, how often they are required to complete writing assignments, and whether or not they have had to work harder than they expected to meet a professor’s expectations, the survey data show that Hampden-Sydney College students rate the academic challenge they experience higher than do students at similar colleges and considerably higher than all of the participants in the survey.

Active and Collaborative Learning

This benchmark illustrates how often students are required to work with others inside and outside the classroom. This includes student group projects and making a class presentation. Working with others and presenting information to the class teaches students how to work through a difficult situation and how to master a difficult subject. The results from the NSSE show a dramatic increase in the amount of active and collaborative learning during a student’s Hampden-Sydney College experience.

Student-Faculty Interaction

At Hampden-Sydney College, we pride ourselves in our low teacher-to-student ratio. We believe that the interaction with faculty, both in and out of the classroom, provides positive role models and academic mentors for students as they tackle challenging subjects and new environments. To gauge their experience, students are asked questions like how often they have discussed grades or class work with their professors and whether or not they have worked on a research project with a professor.

Enriching Educational Experiences

Participating in internships and community service projects and interacting with people from different social, cultural, and economic backgrounds are just a few ways students can enrich their educational experience. While our freshmen are on par with students at other baccalaureate granting colleges, Hampden-Sydney College seniors rate considerably higher than seniors at those schools. This shows how our programs provide a multitude of opportunities for our students to learn about communities and cultures other than their own.

Supportive Campus Environment

Do our students get the assistance they need for academic success? Do they get the assistance they need to succeed socially? The NSSE results clearly indicate that freshmen and seniors rate Hampden-Sydney College’s environment significantly more supportive than students at other baccalaureate granting colleges. Moreover, while our students sense an increase in the supportive nature of the College, seniors at similar institutions sense a decrease in support.

Hampden-Sydney Benchmarks

In addition to the benchmarks established by the NSSE, Hampden-Sydney College has identified survey questions that will measure performance in areas we believe are important to the College’s mission: critical thinking and reasoning; good men and good citizens; and critical reading and writing.

Critical Thinking and Reasoning

Our students ranked their experience as including coursework that emphasizes organizing ideas and analyzing data, as well as interpreting complex relationships and arguments. Critical thinking and reasoning are an essential part of the liberal arts curriculum. Such skills are encouraged by requiring a wide range of courses in many different departments, and are among the most valuable cognitive abilities that a person can take into the world beyond the gates of the College.

Good Men and Good Citizens

From its inception, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to “form good men and good citizens.” Good citizenship involves the development of many things, including “a comprehension of social institutions as a basis for intelligent citizenship and responsible leadership in democracy.” We want our students to graduate with the ability to apply themselves and their knowledge of social, political, and philosophical differences responsibly in a global society. Our students have responded well to NSSE questions we think reflect the development of good men and good citizens.

Critical Reading and Writing

The development of skills in reading and writing are fundamental to any liberally educated person. The Rhetoric Program at Hampden-Sydney College is an important part of our academic program, and has been central in giving our students skills in communication that are essential in their lives outside the gates to the College. Our students are expected to comprehend what they read in all disciplines, and are challenged to write in courses at all levels and in all academic departments.

L. Rucker Snead III ’81, Director of Career Development   

Spring 2008 Career Development Office Update

We are having another very busy and successful year in the Career Development Office as we continue to transform the office to assist the education of our students and work to prepare them for the 21^st century. 

1.  Update on 2007-2008 School Year.  As of 4 April we have conducted over 1000 counseling sessions with students and alumni.  So far we met individually with over 400 of our students and alumni on their career development needs.  This includes over 310 of our students with over 59% of our seniors.  We have assisted over 90 alumni this year with career advice and networking contacts.  In addition, we sponsored over 70 information sessions/workshops/presentations on a number of different career development topics.  So far this year we have had over 40 different corporations/organizations recruit on campus this year.  

2.   Significant Events/Initiatives.   This year we have had a number of significant events and initiatives.  We started off with a Networking Event in conjunction with the Fall Alumni Council meeting.  This allowed our students to meet with some of our key alums while they were back on campus for the meeting.   Next we held our Annual Etiquette and Networking Dinner so our students could practice and refine their networking skills and conversation over dinner.  Later we took some of our most promising underclassmen up to Richmond for our Financial Services Field Trip where our students got to meet and learn about career opportunities from alums at five different financial institutions.  In early November, about 30 students interested in public service took a trip to DC where they heard from a number of our alums about opportunities in the various branches of government.  The focus of our fall recruiting schedule was our CHALLENGE Career and Internship Fair in Roanoke. 

One of our new initiatives this spring has been CAREER15 which is a consortium of the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges which works to link students with some of the top companies in the Commonwealth via a web-based recruiting system.  Another initiative has been the adoption of FOCUS, a web-based self-assessment tool, which is designed to help our students identify possible majors and career paths based on their interests.  In early February, we hosted our Annual Alumni Career Expo where alums from 14 different career fields came back to campus to meet and talk with our students.  Another initiative this year has been developing of professional relationships with students from Sweet Briar College.   In conjunction with their Career Services Office we co-sponsored an alumni panel on life after college and working in a diverse world.  In late February, we assisted the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce with sponsoring the first annual College To Career (C2C) Career and Internship Fair in Richmond which brought together over 100 companies and nearly a 1000 students.  In March our students had the opportunity to participate in two other field trips to DC.  The first was our annual National Security Trip to the Pentagon where the students spent the day learning various opportunities in the national security arena.  On the second trip our students learned about opportunities in the international business arena and then met with alums to some networking. 

3.  Current Visibility on the Outcomes of the Class of ’08.  This year the economy is much softer than the previous three springs.  Our current seniors are facing larger challenges in finding positions.  In particular the construction and financial related industries are not hiring the way they were several years ago.  Our students have to work harder and be more creative in order to find and receive offers.  However, the students who have been “hustling” are getting interviews and offers.  So far we know of students who have accepted offers with Deutsche Bank; UBC; Laidlow & Co; Target; Wolseley North America; American Hospital Corporation; Towne Bank; FBI; US Army; Financial Services of Virginia; Veterans Administration; Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program; and Wells Fargo.  We are working to try to capture the “outcomes” of our soon to be graduates.

            One of the trends that we are seeing is that more of our students, particularly those with business interests, are planning to attend graduate school in the coming year for one year masters programs.  For example we have students accepted into the Vanderbilt School of Finance, Wake Forest’s Accounting Program, William and Mary’s Accounting Program, and UVA’s new program in Commerce.  We are still waiting on the final numbers for those going on to medical and law school.

4.  Internships.  This past year was another productive one for our students as we continue to grow our experiential learning opportunities.  So far we have talked and worked with over 175 of our underclassmen on experiential learning opportunities or internships.  We are currently aware of over 25 students who have confirmed internships for this coming year.  Based on our past experience, we expect that number to continue to grow in the coming weeks as students find out what they are going to be doing this summer.  This year we are planning to assist up to 13 students with approximately $14,000 in stipends to help defray the costs of their internships.  Here are just some of the organizations where our students have  internships for this year: RE/MAX Advantage Plus; Carolinas Healthcare Systems; VA Port Authority; Malaga English School; Wolseley, North America; Hampden-Sydney College; US House of Representatives; Charlottesville City Manager Office; Young Life; Hampden-Sydney College Music Festival; Fulbright Commission; Target; USO; Northwestern Mutual; Defense Intelligence Agency; Park & Company; US Army; USMC; and the Congressional Fellowship.  In addition our students will have those internships in a number of locations around the world to include: Farmville; Richmond; Charlottesville; Washington, DC; Norfolk; Prague, Czech Republic; Sweden; Hong Kong; Ft Campbell, KY, Quantico VA; Malaga, Spain.

5.  Tasks for Spring Alumni Council Career Development Session

• Integration of efforts of former “Young Alumni Task Force” into Alumni efforts.
• Discuss DC Club Networking Initiative as a possible template for other Clubs.
• Identify ways to integrate our soon to be graduates and summer interns into the local clubs this summer.
• Review and share lessons learned from Clubs.  What is working?  What not working?
• Identify what support is needed from the College to support Club efforts.
• Discuss expansion of our Alumni mentoring programs.
• Identify ways that we can get more and bigger organization to recruit on campus.
• Identify ways to better link our students with our alumni.
• Identify possible funding sources so that we can offer more and better services to our students and alumni.

6.  Requested assistance from the members of the Alumni Council. 

• Employ Hampden-Sydney graduates and provide summer internships and jobs

for underclassmen.   List these opportunities by enrolling in TigerConnections.  Go to http://www.ecampusrecruiter3.com/hsc/index.php?script=local-login.  Follow the instructions.  Call us at (434) 223-6106 if you need help. 

• Have your organization recruit on campus.
• Join the Alumni Career Network to serve as an electronic

            mentor.  Go to TigerConnections same address as above and choose the Alumni Career Network icon under                           First Time Users.  You will be directed through the registration process which takes just a few minutes to             complete. 

• Contact the Career Development Director when you become aware of specific

            job openings for direct entry hires.

• Reach out to soon to be grads and welcome them into the Brotherhood.

7.  Links to Career Development

            For more information on the Career Development Office, go to our website at http://www.hsc.edu/careerdevelopment/.  If you have any questions or feedback on our Career Development program or wish to assist us in any way, please contact Rucker Snead at rsnead@hsc.edu or Laura Neidert at lneidert@hsc.edu or give us a call at (434) 223-6106.     

Susan Oldfield

Susan Oldfield thanked all the members who have made their gifts to the Annual Fund this year.  She urged anyone who had not made their gift, to please use the envelope in their packets to fill out a pledge at the time.  She reported that the Annual Fund is running a little behind last year, but that the College has some new initiatives to gain momentum.  The Trustees are instituting a Chairman’s Challenge in honor of the retirement of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.  Ms. Oldfield reminded the group that leaders of the Alumni Council have a responsibility to help Hampden-Sydney reach a great level of participation among alumni.  Next year the group will have more official responsibilities in contacting alumni which they will hear more about in the fall.

Anita H. Garland

Dean Garland reported 1544 applications for the 2008-09 year.  She felt confident of reaching the goal of 318 freshmen.  Dean Garland shared several stories of H-SC men that made all Council members proud.

Admissions and Alumni Relations are working hand in hand to achieve respective objectives:

ADMISSIONS RECEPTIONS 2007-2008

September 13, 2007                             Home of Alan ’84 and Kathy Garrison

October 17, 2007                                David, Georgellen, and Colin ’95 Monette Nansemond River Golf Club

                                                            Prospects and Parents

October 23, 2007                                Rusty Foster ’04 hosted event, Kappa Alpha Order

                                                            Educational Foundation

November 15, 2007                             Home of Karen and Dr. David C. Jones ’69

February 7, 2008                                 Home of Patti and Jeff Clifton ’83

February 21, 2008                               Raymond Bottom ’51 hosted event at James River Country Club

March 2, 2008                                     Home of Joseph F. Viar, Jr. ’63

March 6, 2008                                     Home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Schaefer, parents of Josh ’09

March 11, 2008                                   Home of Kent H. Schmidt, in-laws of Everett Seay ’94

March 13, 2008                                   M. Baxter Vendrick, Jr. ’98 hosted event at

                                                            Norfolk Yacht & Country Club

March 19, 2008                                   Home of Lynne and Judd McAdams ’77 and Scott ’07

March 20, 2008                                   William C. Garrett, Jr. ’74 hosted a dinner at the Chatmoss Country Club

March 26, 2008                                   Home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Knott parents of Tucker ’09

April 1, 2008                                        William M. Passano, Jr. ’53, The Maryland Club

April 7, 2008                                        Home of Melinda and Calhoun McMeekin ’90

April 10, 2008                                      Home of David McKittrick ’67 and Jeanette

April 11, 2008                                      Home of Karen & Jeppy Moss ’73

Joe Bush & Coaches

2007-2008 Hampden-Sydney Sports Synopsis

Football

Final Record:   9-2 (6-0 ODAC)* -- (E&H forced to forfeit due to illegal player)

ODAC Rank:   Champion, automatic bid to 2007 NCAA Division III Playoffs

All-ODAC Tigers

Josh Baumgartner, Sr., TE        First Team

Eric Mendel, Sr., OL                First Team

Josh Simpson, Jr., RB               First Team

Drew Smith, Sr., WR               First Team; ODAC Offensive Player of the Year

Kyle Booker, Sr., LB               Second Team

Brian Gay, Jr., OL                    Second Team

Corey Sedlar, So., QB             Second Team

T.C. Stevens, Jr., PK               Second Team

Michael Brooks, Sr., WR         Honorable Mention

Mark Henson, Sr., LB              Honorable Mention

Marty Favret                            ODAC Coach of the Year

Soccer

Final Record:   11-6-3 (6-1-2 ODAC)

ODAC Rank:   2^nd

All-ODAC Tigers

Jason Butler, Jr., MF                First Team

Jason Powell, Jr., F                  Second Team

Will Robertson, So., MF          Second Team

Sam Turner, Fr., D                   Second Team

Christopher Tait, So., D            Honorable Mention

John Robert Plyler, Fr., GK      ODAC Rookie of the Year

Josh Laux                                 ODAC Coach of the Year

Cross Country

ODAC Rank:   7^th

Basketball

Final Record:   15-12 (8-10 ODAC)

ODAC Rank:   6^th

All-ODAC Tigers

Turner King, So., G                  First Team

Troy Kaase, Sr., F                   Second Team

Drew Prehmus, Sr., G              Honorable Mention; ODAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Baseball

Final Record:   17-25 (8-10 ODAC)

ODAC Rank:   6^th

All-ODAC Tigers

Daniel Prieto, Sr., 3B                Second Team

Daniel Hadra, Sr., P                 Honorable Mention

David Toney, Sr., C                 Sportsmanship Team

Lacrosse

Final Record:   6-8 (2-4 ODAC)

ODAC Rank:   5^th

All-ODAC Tigers

Colin Dunn, Sr., LSM               First Team

Alex Pritzlaff, Sr., D                  First Team

Ian York, Sr., D                       Second Team

Doug Carpenter, Jr., MF          Honorable Mention

Kyle Jett, So., MF                    Honorable Mention

Kyle Frazier, Sr., MF               Honorable Mention

Will Ashwell, Sr., D                  Honorable Mention

Tennis

Final Record:   14-3 (8-1 ODAC)

ODAC Rank:   2^nd (lost in the ODAC Championship Match)

All-ODAC Tigers

Will Moss, So.             First Team; ODAC Player of the Year

Rich Pugh, Fr.                          First Team; ODAC Rookie of the Year

Zack Pack, Fr.                         First Team

Shad Harrell, Fr.                       Second Team

Tal Covington, Fr.                    Second Team

Andrew McLeod, Sr.               Second Team; ODAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Murrie Bates                            ODAC Coach of the Year

Golf

Placed third in the ODAC Championships

All-ODAC Tigers

Nick Combs, Sr.                      First Team

Bob Boykin, Sr.                       First Team

James Barton ’06, Assistant Director of Annual Giving &

Michael Blackwell ’01

THE NETWORK
OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE

-         An on-line infrastructure for the communication and coordination of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association

The Need

-         New expectations

-         New technology

-         New opportunity

What inspired The Network?

-         Alumni frustration with communications and information availability

-         A college home-page trying to do too much

-         Lack of facilitated alumni involvement at the club level

-         Alumni experience with social networking sites

e.g. Facebook and LinkedIn

-         The knowledge that we can do more.

What is “Social Networking?”

-         You already know

-         You do it nearly every day

-         It has never been more facilitated

-         It’s putting people together

-         Finding commonalities

-         Allowing people to contribute, share, communicate and collaborate

What is a social networking web-site?

-         The structure

o       Broad to narrow organization

§         Community

·        Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association

§         Groups

·        Class of 1976

·        Football Alumni

·        Members of the Richmond Alumni Club

§         Connections

·        People with close association

§         Personal Profiles

·        You and Me

Leadership

-         Alumni Council members will influence the rest of the alumni

o       If you create a profile, they’ll create a profile

o       If you start a discussion in a blog, they’ll participate

o       Send invitations to your closest alumni friends

§         add value to their alumni experience (and to yours, too)

-         Greater participation = greater usefulness

-         The keys lie with the club regions

Make The Network your club head-quarters

-         Group communications

o       Directory search

§         Members can be e-mailed through the system, outside the system, internally messaged, phone-numbers found if listed, etc.

o       Group broadcast messaging

o       Group blogging

o       News items related to group listed

§         Headline news items with specific relevance to group listed within group page.

o       File sharing

§         Templates for event planning and implementation

§         Useful contact information

The tools for the job

-         Group Pages

-         News

-         Career Center

-         Community Calendar

Association President Judd McAdams ’77 shared his minimum goals and expectations for alumni clubs:

ADMISSIONS LEADERSHIP TEAM LEADER

REQUIRED MINIMUM GOALS

I – Identify, call, and get to know Assistant Dean of Admissions assigned to your city.  Establish yourself as contact in your city for Admissions related events, needs.

II – Host yield events in your city in early fall and early spring

III – Attend College fairs with HSC Admissions reps

IV – Calling – Coordinate calling tree when asked by Admissions to assist with:

> Prospective and applicants

> Those accepted by HSC but who have not chosen HSC

> Those committed to HSC to welcome

V – Attend Fall and Spring Alumni Council meetings or make sure your club is represented.

VI – Feed prospective student names to HSC Admissions Dept.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP TEAM LEADER

REQUIRED MINIMUM GOALS

I – Call, write, email Career Development Office and establish yourself as Career Development Leadership Team rep for your city.

II – Develop list of Alumni in your city in various professional fields.  Get commitments from each to allow you to steer students to them who are inquiring about specific careers in those respective fields:

            >Commercial Real Estate

            >Residential Real Estate

            >Law

            >Clergy

            >Insurance

            >Banking

            >Investment Banking

            >Construction

            >Sales

            >IT

III – Attend Fall and Spring Alumni Council meetings or make sure your club is represented.

IV – Internships – Assist Career Development Office in identifying companies in your city that might offer potential internship opportunities

CLUB PRESIDENT

REQUIRED MINIMUM GOALS

            I - Recruit a slate of 4 Leadership Team members YOU can count on:

                        >Young Alumni (suggest < 10 years out of HSC)

>Institutional Development/Founders (suggest > 10 years out of HSC)

                        >Admissions

                        >Career Development (suggest > 10 years out of HSC)

            II – Prepare (in advance) annual plan with Leadership Team

III – Oversee Leadership Team to insure each is meeting his minimum goals.

IV – Hold Leadership Team meetings no less than twice in the fall and twice in the spring.

V – Attend Fall and Spring Alumni Council meetings or make sure your club is represented.

>Hold Leadership Team meeting immediately after each Alumni Council meeting to recap and apply info gained at meeting

            VI – Coordinate annual club meeting in your city with Alumni office

                        >Secure location

                        >Make arrangements

>Assist your Admissions, Young Alumni and Inst. Dev reps with recruiting alums and prospective students in your city to attend.

VII – Recruit a club member to maintain updated list of local alumni.  This person must communicate with Alumni Office regularly to update his list PLUS relay contact info of new alumni in your area to the Alumni Office.  This person should promote the on line community in your city.  This person should handle “blast emails” at the request of the club president and the four Leadership Team leaders.

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP TEAM MEMBER

REQUIRED MINIMUM GOALS

General Goal:  Annual Fund fundraising and recruitment of Founders

I – Establish yourself with Development Office as the Leadership Team Member for your city.  Get to know Beeler Brush, Richard Epperson, Susan Oldfield, and James Barton by phone, email or letter.

II – Assist development office with Annual Fund solicitations in your city

            >Secure location for Phonathons

            >Recruit callers for Phonathons

III – Founders – Founders are key to the success of the Annual Fund.  Identify prospective Founders in your city and coordinate with Development Office to solicit new Founders and increase the yearly goal.

IV – Host a Founders function (dinner, party, meeting) once a year in your city.

V – Attend Fall and Spring Alumni Council meetings or make sure your club is represented.

YOUNG ALUMNI LEADERSHIP TEAM MEMBER

REQUIRED MINIMUM GOALS

I – Work with the club president to identify new alumni residing in your city.

II – Host, in early fall or late summer, a Young Alumni Function “welcoming” all Young Alumni.

III – Coordinate minimum quarterly Young Alumni get togethers:

            >Happy Hours

            >Golf outing

            >Sporting Events

IV – Work with Info Tech person in your club and the club president to promote use of the on line community.

V – Encourage Young Founder participation, Phonathon participation, involvement in local club.

VI – Attend Fall and Spring Alumni Council meetings or make sure your club is represented.

Adjourn

The Council enjoyed a reception and dinner honoring several Wilson Center honorees.

Dates for next year’s Alumni Council Meetings:

September 19 - 20, 2008 and April 17 – 18, 2009