Minutes: Class of ‘64 Meeting, January 22, 2005
From: Barbara (Bobbie) Furman Attardi, Secretary
Present:
The meeting was called to order by our new president,
Janet Spencer King, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of
CACO.
We heard that Nancy Persily had serious back surgery in
early December and is scheduled for additional surgery. We wish Nancy the
best!
The minutes from the class meeting in 2004 had been
circulated on line and were not read.
Treasurer’s Report (Linda Meltzer):
This has been a good year for our class. A committee was formed to decide what to do with some of
our surplus. Committee members are Linda Meltzer, Janet Spencer King and
Susie Holden.
JFK Scholarship Report (Joan Melville):
We decided to give only one JFK scholarship ($5,000) this
year because Day Hall said we overspent last year. The current recipient is
Betsy Cooper from Amherst, NY who has very impressive credentials. We are
planning to give two scholarships next year, but the applicant pool was down
this year. Betty Drummond and Nancy and Steve Einhorn are new members of the
JFK committee. We voted for a motion to retain the name of the JFK award but
to have discretion to award more than one scholarship. We approved a motion
for the class to contribute the extra money to bring the pool to $10,000. if
we want to give a second award. However, we received a very generous
contribution ($50,000.) to the JFK fund from one of our class members, who
wants to remain anonymous, after reunion to help us toward our goal or
awarding two scholarships. Thank you, anonymous donor: we are very
grateful!
Tradition Fellowship:
Awarded to a freshman who works and does community
service. Current award is $4,000. Last year $1,400 was donated with dues
payments. It will generate $4,670 next year. The University may decide to
increase the amount of the Tradition fellowships in the near future. Carolyn
Newman suggested that we get guidance from the funding office about
increasing the amount of this award. If it goes up, the “friends of the
Cornell Tradition” (an anonymous donor) will make up an extra.
Class Historian:
The question was raised as to whether we should retain the
position of Class historian. Ginny Mai was the previous Class historian, and
she doesn’t want to do this job anymore. It consisted mainly of storing some
Cornell memorabilia. Joanne Herron is currently storing a box of mementos.
Marsha Goldschlager Epstein asked whether the University has archives, and
Carolyn Neuman will look into this. We should decide what documents and
mementos our class wants to save.
Reunion 2009:
Thinking ahead to next Reunion, we discussed who would be
Chairs. Stan Morgenstein has expressed a willingness to do this job. Anyone
else interested in Co-chairing should contact Stan. He will work on a short
list and invite candidates to CACO next year to recruit a Co-chair. Barbara
Brim who did this job for the 40th has volunteered to help.
Bobbie Attardi suggested we have a singles event early in the schedule.
Fund Raising:
Don Allen did a great job last summer. We don’t need to do
day-to-day fund raising but to concentrate on large gifts recruitment as our
next Reunion draws near. Lauren Massotti-Kline stopped by to discuss future
fund raising and suggested a “thank-a-thon” for those who contributed.
Class Web Site (http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu/)
(Bruce Wagner):
Bob Friedenson will continue to do the technical part,
whereas Bruce Wagner and Janet King will deal with the content. Bruce had
questions and suggestions as to what should appear on the web site and would
like input from other classmates.
1.
Home page
2. Reunion
page- including mini-reunions between 5-year reunions and class
get-togethers
3. Class
news, classmates - stories with photos
4. Class
officers
5. Dues
and giving
6. Links
Further suggestions about what to add to website:
headlines, pictures from Reunion (submit if you have them!), list of
deceased classmates, message from the class President, news about
classmates, message from Jeff Lehman, jokes, etc. We decided to update every
4-6 months.
We discussed the idea of Regional events focused on the
class of ’64 at 64 which will happen in the next year or two.
Newsletter (Bev Feinberg-Moss):
We want to continue the newsletter which accompanies
mailing of dues statements. The newsletter should promote the website and
may include profiles of classmates.
Reunion Report:
Thank you to our Reunion Co-Chairs (Susie Holden and
Barbara Brim), Judie Pink Gorra for registration, and all others who were
involved in organizing Reunion activities for a truly wonderful and fun
Reunion!
We set aside $7,500 from the class treasury for Reunion,
but this was not used. We forgot to hand out the evaluations. Attendees: 222
classmates, 96 guests, 30 nonclass alums, 4 children. Thirty-six of these
were first-time attendees. About 80-85% of those who said “yes” on reunion
form attended, whereas only about 10% of “maybes” attended.
Meeting was adjourned with reception and gala to follow at
6:30 at the New York Hilton.
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