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
      • Doug Allcorn – Organizer – douglas.r.allcorn@wtas.com
      • Registration Deadline October 1, 2009
      • ~$20 per rower

• 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

• Fundraising/Budget – $395.00
• Contact Information
  • Email – DrexelRowingAlumni@gmail.com – Facebook – Drexel Rowing Alumni – Website – www.drexelrowingalumni.org
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