September 15th, 2009 Meeting Minutes

Posted by Bill Camara | Meeting Minutes | Wednesday 16 September 2009 1:20 pm

Drexel Rowing Alumni Group

Quarterly Meeting Agenda – September 15 2009 – BBC – 7pm

  • Fall events
    • Navy Day Celebration – Saturday, October 10, 2009
      • Boat Naming
    • Head of Schuylkill Regatta – Saturday and Sunday, October 24-25, 2009
      • BBQ – Saturday
        • Coordinate with Parents?
        • During/After Regatta?
        • Food Options
      • Alumni Boats – Male and Female – Open Club 8 Event – Saturday
  • Wine Tasting
    • Date TBD – October/November – day preference?
    • Location- Bachelors Barge Club
  • No Head of the Charles Trip – DU on waitlist

 

  • Winter Events
  • Center City Slam – Erg Competition
    • Need Volunteers – Run by alumni
  • Team and Alumni Banquet
    • Suggestions from last year
    • Opinion of auction and raffle items
      • Good/bad/out of budget ?
      • What do alumni want? (tickets/vails hotels/stuff/crew gear)
      • What budget/price range do we have for auction?

 

  • Elections
    • No Nominations received
    • VP nominations…vote

 

 

  • Records
    • Keep written documentation as well as pictures
      • Post on website

 

  • Updates to Team Newsletter
  • Paul Savell and his staff put together a bi-yearly newsletter
    • Alumni will have 1 page for updates, what’s new, who’s married…etc

 

 

  • Members – Recruitment – Call, email, face-to-face
  • Need to expand DRAG membership, specifically, rowers before 2002
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      • Suggestions…

1. Memories of Boathouse #4:  Announce the moving of the crew to the new boathouse at Bachelors.  Then ask for pictures and their best rowing and NON-rowing memories of Boathouse #4.  I think this would be a great way to get some historical information and pictures from crews gone by…

2. Erg competition – I know Drexel hosts an erg competition in the winter.  Let’s challenge our old crews to come back and put up some numbers against their teammates.  I recently challenged Pat McDonnell (’91) to come back and row against me during the erg event.  This would be a great way to raise funds and bring back the old crews.  Put it out in the e-mail blast to start training now and call your old teammates to challenge them to a 1000 or 2000 meter race

  • New  Boathouse – New Rules – New Members
  • Provided club with tentative schedule for DRAG for the whole year

 

Fall 2009

September 15, 2009 – 7pm – quarterly meeting

October 24- HOSR Gathering/BBQ during and after race

Oct/Nov? -wine tasting event

 

Winter 2009-2010

January 5, 2010, 7pm – quarterly meeting

February-Social Event

 

Spring 2010

April 6, 2010, 7pm – quarterly meeting

Kerr Cup BBQ – during and after race

Friday, May 7, 2010 – Dad Vail Social 6-10pm

 

Summer 2010

June 22, 2010, 7pm – quarterly meeting

Late August -Social Event