Washington Area Lunch - January 8, 2010
The first five pictures were submitted by Eileen Proulx, Alumni Association Reunion/Class Coordinator. Dave Carruth submitted the remainder.
Following is Dave Carruth's note to the webmaster that accompanied the photos:
There were 30 Classmate/wives at the luncheon. Byron Marchant (our speaker and President/CEO of the Alumni Assoc/Foundation) gave a long power point covering the Association and Foundation organization and some insight into the financial situation. Only four questions were asked:
Q: What are the Long Term plans for Shipmate magazine: Will you go down from 8 issues?
A: No, but we will look at other media type
Q: Any chance of Shipmate! e going up from 8?
A: No, not financially capable. We might even look to see if any alumni that might be willing to give up their "hard copy" of Shipmate and just receive it electronically-we do want to keep the issues at 8.
Q: Who does our investments?
A: TIFF manages our endowments; they are a reliable group. We have an investment committee, and I can give you the names of those on the committee if you are interested.
Q: When do you plan on reporting the results of the survey and how are you going to go about doing so?
A: Working a format rep;ort now and we're hoping to get it out to Alumni be mid February. Electronically most likely.
I find it fairly obvious that the push is toward electronic means of preferred communication between Alumni and the Association. The survey was sent to 45,026 and 11,324 responded. That's a 25% participation rate which from my experience is fair. The survey was closed out in Sept. Dave
