UCSC Alumni Assoc - LA Chapter
Minutes from 1/24/98 LA UCSC Alum mtg.

In attendance:  Ken & Moira Feingold, Chris Ridder, Susan Bok, Steve Klein,
Claude Zachary

Meeting began at 1:45.

Susan reported on arrangements for the upcoming wine tasting event.  Beau
Rivage has been deemed as too inaccessible; Susan spoke with Bruno's
Ristorante at 3838 Centinela Ave. and Venice Blvd.  They are freeway close,
have a nice outdoor patio space that can accomodate 40-50 people with an
adjacent overflow room, and can serve a meal for $26-47, or a selection of
5-6 appetizers for about $25, per person.  We agreed that appetizers seems
more conducive to mingling and mixing and tasting wines.  Dori is working on
contacting alum winemakers who would bring a generous sampling of their
wares down to LA gratis.  The idea of using the event to encourage people to
become members of the Alumni Association by offering a membership discount
was bandied about; perhaps charging $25 for members and $35 for non-members.
As far as timing is concerned, the weekend of May 16th and 17th seems to be
the target dates.  We'll need a 40 person minimum, but that shouldn't be a
problem.  The program will concentrate on the winemakers and their
presentations.

Next item for discussion was the admissions event for prospective UCSC
students.  The budget for the admissions people at UCSC is apparently almost
non-existent, so Steve and the Feingolds offered to host events at their
respective abodes (Steve has a nice condo rec room).  Finding some young
alum volunteers closer in age to prospective students was suggested, since
the age and ethnic disparities noticed at last year's mixer seemed to dampen
the effectiveness of the event.  March 20 or 21 was selected as a target date.

Ken shared his ideas for a summer weekend outing to Santa Cruz Island in the
Channel Island group.  Transportation details include:
roundtrip boat ride from Oxnard to the Island runs $47 adults, $40 kids 12
and under.  The boat departs at 8 a.m.  There is a field station on the
island that has dormitories and cabins that can be rented, including a full
kitchen, a fire pit outdoors, and room for camping if desired.  They can
provide truck transportation for baggage from the landing dock to the
station, about a 3 1/2 mile hike.  People could bring their own food for
lunches, and a communal dinner and breakfast could be prepared for all to
share.  We would be looking at a maximum of about 35 people.  The weekend of
July 25th was suggested as a good planning target.  We are estimating a per
person cost of about  $100-120 dollars for the weekend.  We also discussed
inviting a UCSC professor to attend the weekend and talk to us on a
pertinent topic, either anthropological or marine biological.  This would
involve paying their expenses.

We also began to talk about a possible fall event, and speakers we
could/should invite.  Chris has a speakers' list from Dori that he will
forward on.  This could take place at a Chinese restaurant in Downtown LA,
and could also serve as our mandatory Fall association meeting.  That
brought up the topic of the next slate of chapter officers, which was
quickly tabled until later.

The next meeting has been scheduled for Saturday, February 28 at 3 PM at the
Feingolds.

The meeting was adjorned at approximately 3 PM.

Respectfully submitted by Claude Zachary, secretary.  Comments or
corrections are welcomed.

From: "Claude B. Zachary" 
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:15:22 -0800
Subject: Minutes from 1/24/98 LA UCSC Alum mtg.

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