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Committee Meeting Minutes, 01/10/01

Members Attending: Lynne Fountain, Chris Gilmore, Hugh Little, Eva May, Sam Morris, Melissa Phillips, Jan Vaughn

Next Meeting: February 14

  • Overview provided to committee on the seven mailings since August to alumni/alumni parents.
  • Announcement that the Alumni home page is active off the CA external site (‘photo gallery’ to be added by end of month)
  • Mention of the software package that will be used by the Advancement Office to track alumni
  • Review of the success of the alumni holiday luncheon (22 attended) and homecoming (10 alums attended)
  • Discussion of how to include our alums at commencement and commencement related-events
    • perhaps premature to include in the processional: wait until alum group is larger
    • post-commencement ‘gala’ for alumni/recent grads – welcoming Class of 2001 to alumni community, Sunday, June 10th
      • Hugh Little offered to coordinate initial planning efforts
      • Hugh, Eva May, and Melissa Phillips will investigate bands that would be available/associated cost – pull information together by January 16
      • Jan Vaughn will check possible outside venues for such an event
      • Notify senior parents, seniors, alums, and alums parents re. date as soon as possible to plan accordingly
  • Current seniors to help package items included in alum care packages – notes to alums, personalized or otherwise, to be included written by US students
  • Committee members to consider short- and long-term goals for the committee that could be measured and help to gauge the success of the alumni program. Suggestions to be brought to the next meeting.
  • Sam Morris to create a listserv for this committee
 

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