LA Chapter UCSC Alumni Association Meeting held at Ken and Moira Feingold's home on 1/11/97. Present were the Feingolds, Stephen Klein, Claude Zachary, and special guest Dori Schack of the UCSC Alumni Office. The meeting was called to order at 4:24 PM. The minutes of the last meeting were reviewed and approved. The first order of business was the upcoming film screening of "Glory Daze". Rik Converse has found a suitable location for the screening at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. There is a 150 person seating capacity with the rental fee being $550 for a 2 hour screening, with the proviso that we book the adjoining cafe for the reception after the film. There will be a food spread consisting of chips, salsa, vegies, and chicken wings and a no-host bar, for which we will be charged $4 per head for 100 people. The screening was set for Saturday, February 15th, from 2-4 PM with the reception following. Consensus was we could safely charge folks up to $10 for the screening and the food without encountering resistance. The invitations will run about $0.50 each -- the 750 members of the Association and an additional 250 actives will receive invites. Dori and Rik will work on the invitations and they will be design, printed, and mailed from UCSC. They will also list the upcoming wine tasting and "Politically Incorrect" event dates and the Feingolds phone number. Checks will be collected here and given to Treasurer Steve Jung for deposit -- credit card payments can be called into UCSC. If both methods of payment will be used, coordination between LA and SC is imperative to have a complete list of payments. Ken F. will be contact person for questions about the event. Invitations should be mailed out within 10 days. The Wine Tasting scheduled for April 12th is still without a location. Moira has pinpointed two likely sites: the Skirball Cultural Center in Sepulveda Pass, and the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Steve pointed out that the Long Beach Grand Prix was scheduled for the same day and might inhibit some people from making the trip down there. The Norton Simon House and the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood were suggested as well, but enthusiasm for the Skirball Center grew and became our venue of choice. Moira will follow through on attempting to book it. Dave Graves is still not available to present his wines, but Dori has been talking with alum Jason Brent Lewis who is in the wine business and works with Ventures in Wine. He suggested the Dyers, a couple connected with Domaine Chandon and their private winery; Ann Moses and husband, connected with Patz and Hall and Cain Wineries, and Michael Dash with Ridge. A joint presentation of Storrs and Ridge, or alternately Domaine Chandon and the Dyer winery, was favored. Futher discussions with Jason will be held. As to the program, the Chancellor is confirmed from 4 - 6 PM; she will speak first -- shall the vintner give a presentation afterwards? Regarding the Reception for newly admitted students to UCSC, Gail will not be able to coordinate as planned; Steve has been working with Jaime Velasco of the UCSC Admissions Staff. Invitations to the event will be sent jointly by the Admissions Office and the LA chapter; alums who assisted in outreach efforts at local high schools and community colleges will also be invited; some additional folks from campus such as Martin Chemers might also come along. The chapter will also contribute $500 towards the event; Ken will try to contact Letitia Quezada for use of her space for the event. Jaime will be invited to come to our next meeting. The "Politically Incorrect" taping we're looking to attend is May 9th; we will check with Rik to see if he is willing to organize the tickets and the informal gathering at Canter's deli after the show. Dori mentioned the impending necessity of electing officers that are active in the Los Angeles area and cultivating new interested alums to come and get more involved. She also mentioned the Regional Leaders Workshop she'll be doing during Banana Slug Spring Fair in April on campus and encouraged us to consider attending. The World Wide Web made its inevitable appearance with the mentioning of the Seattle chapter's homepage and the interest of our chapter to find someone to make one up for us. This is still pending. Some further discussion of Alumni Association matters and the press release announcing the vote by the Academic Senate in favor of letter grades with reflections on the changing of institutional culture brought the meeting to an end. The next meeting will be held on February 8th from 3 - 5 PM at the Feingold's home. Ken will be responsible for the hors d'oevres in Moira's absence. Respectfully submitted by Claude Zachary. Claude B. Zachary UCLA Dept. of Library & Information Science (310)659-7902 czachary@ucla.edu http://scow.gslis.ucla.edu/students_a-l/czachary/HTML/homepg.html
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