The meeting was called to order at approx. 3 PM, Saturday February 8th, 1997 at the Feigold residence. In attendance was Jaime Velasco of UCSC Admissions office, Tessa Charnofsky, Ken Feingold, Greg Canillas, Chris Ridder, Steve Klein, Rik Converse, Patricia Pethertsridge, Amy Goldman, and yours truly. The meeting began with introductions and greetings, approval of the minutes of the last meeting, and a short recent history of the LA Chapter renaissance. The first order of business was the upcoming "Glory Daze" screening. Rik and Ken will arrive at Raleigh at 1 PM on Saturday the 15th to set up equipment, signs, and greeting table. They will also be making invitational phone calling this week to alums to encourage a capacity attendance at the screening. We were encouraged to invite friends to the show, but Steve reminded us of the need to have enough food on hand, so the deadline of Tuesday was reinforced so the restaurant will be advised of how many people to expect. Unfortunately Dori will not be able to attend, and Steve will be in Washington DC. The April Wine Tasting event was next on the agenda. The Dyers will be pouring Domaine Chandon! The Chancellor has committed to attend the event and is enthusiastic about the opportunity to meet Southern California alums. She views us as 1) stakeholders in UCSC as an institution, 2) living examples as UCSC graduates as success stories (!), and 3) a source of money and influence, especially as a lobby to keep UCSC fresh in the minds of state legislators working on the vision of a new, Merced-area 10th campus in the UC system. Unfortunately the Skirball Center site is unavailable, so the Feingolds are still scouting for locations -- Getty Center, Hammer Museum, and the LA Mexican Cultural Institute were all mentioned as possibilities. As for publicity, nice elegant invitations were deemed necessary, as well as a saturation e-mail campaign, and a large sign announcing the event at the "Glory Daze" screening. Jaime indicated he might invite a few select students that he has a good chance of recruiting from the March event to meet the Chancellor. The March student recruiting event is on track, all arrangements have been made, and will be held at the LA Mexican Cultural Institute on the second floor in the lovely Institute Gallery. Capacity is 120 people, and Jaime is expecting a capacity crowd of high achieving high schoolers with their supportive and critical parents. The event will be funded by the Admissions Office and the Alumni Council with a $1500 budget. The students will also be invited to Scholars Day on campus at UCSC. 45 Southern California alums have been active in recruiting activities over the last year and will be invited to attend the March function, and 3 people -- an administrator, a dean or provost, and a professor -- will be flown down from UCSC. Prospective students seem most interested in research opportunities and admittance to graduate school, so alumni will be encouraged to talk about their personal experiences. Jaime will inform us if we can be of any further assistance. Several of our chapter members will be attending, including Ken and Chris and Greg. The Politically Correct event is still in planning stages with Rik to make contact with the show. The date is still tentatively set for May 9th, a Friday evening. Our prospective Chapter WWWebsite was discussed and was enthusiastically received. Chris volunteered that a fine tuning was needed, as well as an official server upon which to live, and a hookup with the UCSC Website. Marina at the Alum Office at UCSC was named as the contact person. The site currently resides at Chris's home at http://www.concentric.net/~cridder/alum. Comments are gladly received. Further ideas for upcoming events were tossed around -- a trip to Santa Cruz Island, a rafting trip down the Kern River. Dori's Regional Leadership Conference and general brainstorming session being held at UCSC in April was recommended to aid us in running the Chapter. The need for Chapter Bylaws and Elections was brought up but not particularly engaged. Alumni database organization was also mentioned re: further outreach. Our next Chapter meeting will be held on March 8th at 3 PM at the Feingold's little Hawaiian hideaway on the far side of Brentwood. Agenda will include updates on bylaws, officers, Politically Incorrect, site for wine tasting, and future events. Respectfully submitted by: Claude B. Zachary UCLA Dept. of Library & Information Science (310)659-7902 http://scow.gslis.ucla.edu/students_a-l/czachary/HTML/homepg.html
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