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Class Committee Vision Update

Vision Statement

Current Status

50^th Reunion
Select a Chairman for the 50^th Reunion Committee (DC area).	Forming 50^th reunion committee, principally from DC-area Classmates Tentatively at Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown Considering 50^th Reunion book Currently scheduled Sunday, 22 to Wednesday, 25 May 2011 Likely to move to 15-18 May 2011
50-Year Affiliation Program
Actively participate in the 50-year affiliation program with the Class of 2011.	See attached sheet
50^th Reunion Class Gift
Select a 50^th Reunion Class Gift Committee and run a five-year campaign.	Pat Carroll and Frank Gibson agreed to co-chair the gift committee
Determine a Class Gift for presentation at our 50^th Reunion.	Class Committee, in conjunction with gift committee, selected to make a major donation to the endowment for the Center for Oral History Campaign started in September 2008 with initial solicitation package being sent to all graduates and selected non-grads and widows $240,000 pledged as of 31 December 2008 Goal is $1 million Need concerted effort by company representatives to sell the gift

Distinguished Graduate Award
Nominate one or two candidates as distinguished graduates prior to our 50^th Reunion.	George Joulwan, Howard Graves, and Jim Nicholson selected Have a candidate under consideration and hope to nominate him this year for award in 2010 Seek input of other candidates
AOG Board of Directors and Council of Advisors
Seek Classmates to be nominated and elected to serve three-year terms on the Board of Directors (2008-2010) and the Council of Advisors (At-Large) (2008-2010).	Nominated candidates not selected by nominating committee Director declined to be renominated
Select a Class representative to serve a three-year term on the Council of Advisors (2009-2011).	Gene Witherspoon selected and agreed to serve through 31 Dec 11
	Ed Jones is Society Advisor-at-Large (Western Region) through 31 Dec 09 J. B. Taylor is Society Advisor-at-Large (Western Region) through 31 Dec 11
Army Sports Hall of Fame
Nominate candidates for induction into the Army Sports Hall of Fame.	Two nominations submitted for consideration for induction in 2009
40^th Reunion Class Gift
Maintain the 40^th Reunion Class Gift – Reconciliation Plaza – in perpetuity.	Hudson Valley Horticultural Services Inc. removed the winter creeper, planted pachysandra, and mulched around monuments in 2006 Bruce Shroyer agreed to replace Webb Kremer as POC for maintenance of Reconciliation Plaza Hudson Valley Horticultural Services Inc. removed pachysandra, installed irrigation system, and planted stella d’ora and liriope in 2008 Hudson Valley Horticultural Services Inc. awarded contract for annual maintenance in 2009
Mini-Reunions
Maintain a program for 3 mini-reunions between the five-year reunions, either aboard a cruise ship or at rotating sites around the country, hosted by different groups of Classmates. For a cruise – consider a European river cruise, a Mediterranean cruise, a Hawaiian cruise, or a Caribbean cruise. For rotating sites - consider Pacific NW, California, Florida, New England, or Rockies.	Very successful Danube River Cruise in October 2008 No other class committee supported mini-reunions before 50^th reunion Mini-reunion at Boyne Mountain Resort, 22-26 June 2009 – 29 classmates and 27 spouses tentatively committed
Communications
Continue the outstanding communication in the Assembly.	Marty continues to do a yeoman’s job in preparing the class notes
Continue to maintain a state of the art web site for communication with the Class, including visual and semi-permanent material.	Sam Weiss continues to do a yeoman’s job as web master Encourage everyone to visit site
Expand the number of Classmates receiving e-mail communication from the Committee on current and time-sensitive communications.	Currently 397 grads, non-grads, and widows have e-mail addresses registered with the AOG Ed has addresses for another 56 and continues, without much success, to encourage them to register
Communicate by letter to all Classmates – graduates, non-graduates, and widows – at least once every 18 months.	Use web site and e-mails to keep everyone informed
Memorial Article Program
Support Bruce Holmberg in his effort to reduce the number of deceased classmates without published memorial articles.	94 deceased graduates – 43 memorial articles 18 deceased non-graduates – 4 memorial articles 21 memorial articles since 40^th reunion of which 12 have been since 45^th reunion Need a volunteer to replace Bruce Holmberg as coordinator
Funds
Gradually increase the size of the Admin account, in the belief that fewer will be contributing in the future.	Current balance is $48,072.12 Have not requested dues this decade

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Last update:
2/28/2009