Minutes: Class of ‘64 Meeting, February
9, 2008
From: Barbara (Bobbie) Furman Attardi, Secretary
Location:
Philadelphia Downtown Marriott
Present:
The meeting was called to order about 2:30 by Janet Spencer King.
The minutes from the class meeting in 2007 had been
circulated online and were not read.
1. Treasurer’s Report (Linda Meltzer)
Linda reported that our
class is in sound financial shape. There were 483 dues payers and 525 bad
addresses. We have funds from reunion surpluses, and we received donations
to the JFK Award and Tradition Fellowship this year.
2. JFK Award (Janet for Joan Melville)
The book value for the JFK Award is about
$158,000, and we are paying out $10,000/year. We would like to expand the
pool of applicants for the JFK Award so that we encompass all majors across
all colleges.
Carolyn Neuman and Michael Newman met with
Connie at Day Hall to discuss making a broader announcement and suggested
that we pay to advertise in the Cornell Daily Sun concerning this
year’s award, possibly the week classes begin after Winter Break. Mary
suggested those in the Cornell Abroad program may be a good target. A motion
was made and passed to place an ad in the Cornell Daily Sun in the
spring. The Senior Sun had an ad thanking the class of ’64 for this
fellowship. We decided, if we have a good applicant pool, to give two awards
this year: $10,000 for the first place and $5,000 for the second place,
which will not be publicized.
The latest recipient Sorbriquet (Sorby) Grant,
a Jamaican-American who is majoring in public policy, will be joining the
Teach for America program next year. She will attend the Goldman School of
Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley.
Carolyn suggested taking the winner out to
lunch. A motion was made and passed to have Carolyn and Janet take the
winner to lunch in Ithaca.
3. Fundraising Campaign (Rich Glick,
CU)
Rich Glick spoke to us about Reunion campaign
milestones. We need a team in place by April, 2008 for fund raising both for
Tower Club ($5,000 or more) and participation (regular gifts). Our goals for
the numbers of participants and major gift givers will be set by Rich,
Janet, and participant volunteers.
We discussed calling classmates about Reunion
and then mentioning participation in gift giving. Everyone who has given to
Tower Club in the past is invited to join the Major Gifts/Tower Club
committee. How do we identify potential new Tower Club members? There was a
matching gift given at the last Reunion, but we didn’t reach the goal. We’re
at a good age to get new recruits, and CAU starts several days before
Reunion. Marcia and Stan will get a list of classmates for choosing
participation and Tower Club leaders.
There will be special edition of the
newsletter, which usually comes out in March, geared to Reunion. We
discussed trying to get it out earlier as part of the Reunion mailing.
Proofs have been getting stalled in Alumni house.
4. Carol Tatkon Center
The Class of ’64 contributed $15,000 in 2006,
and there is a plaque in the Center to this effect.
5. Cornell Duespayer Rewards Program
CU will provide incentives.
6.
Website Review
(Bruce Wagner)
The site now features classmate Bob Goldfarb,
a 2007 recipient of the Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award;
and Sorby Grant, 2007 JFK Awardee. We expect the web site to play a larger
role in Reunion planning.
7. Other Business
This year’s new student reading project
selection was “The Pickup” by Nadine Gordimer. Several copies were available
at the meeting. We made a motion to send out next year’s book to dues
payers. The motion passed.
Lenni reported on her discussion with David
Harris to give a seed grant of $5,000 to the Institute for Social Science (ISS).
David is now a Deputy Provost and has been very busy. We had hoped to give
the money to a specific faculty member, but ISS wants to use it as part of
the small grants program which is supported by other sources as well. There
were 26 proposals submitted last year, of which 9 were funded for an average
amount of $5,500. We would have preferred to have a relationship with the
recipient, but we can still invite one of the professors from ISS to talk to
our class (at Reunion). There is also a new program for young faculty
members at CU (10 grants). We made a motion that we will fund this program
at $5,000, which passed. There will be the potential to renew this, and we
would like recognition. We thank Lenni for pursuing this cause.
There was a “Far Above” program in New York
this year which was very successful. Six faculty members with different
backgrounds presented. It will be held in several other cities in early
2008: Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Janet plans to organize a summer meeting of
the Class Council in New York City. Nancy Butler proposed that we have a
paid class dinner next year as a perk for Class Council members attending
the CACO MWM. The motion passed with the amendment that it should not
conflict with CACO or Philadelphia Club events.
8. Reunion: June 4-7, 2009 (Mary and
Arnie Hammer; reunion email address:
hammerCU64@aol.com )
Volunteers so far are Sue Holden, food; Arnie
and Mary, souvenirs; Lenni, Michael, class survey; Barbara Brim,
registration; Bruce, communications/website; Bobbie, class hike. We need
volunteers for affinity chairperson, welcoming committee, entertainment,
photography. Don McCarthy and Ed Dealy who did the affinity groups for the
last Reunion should be able to specify the structure they followed.
Various ideas were presented for Reunion
activities: Health Symposium on Aging Well, small group discussions, small
affinity groups with comfortable questions, energy underground party (M.
Newman).
Seed money will be about $10,000.
We discussed raising interest in attending
Reunion: ideas for programs online, ask people “what would bring you back?”
in newsletter, theme of getting back in touch with old friends etc. Send
names and suggestions to Arnie and Mary.
9. And Also...
Meeting was adjourned about 5:00.
Several classmates
went to Positano Coastal (212 Walnut St.) for dinner, while others attended
“100 Years of Far Above” in the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott.
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