[Alumni-chat] Alumni-chat Digest, Vol 6, Issue 73

[Michael Casselli (dodioflo at mindspring.com)]

>On 8/28/07 11:22 AM, "Michael Casselli (dodioflo at mindspring.com)"
><alumni-chat_forum at antiochians.org> wrote:
>
>>No we haven't. Of course they are allowing, they still hold the hand. And what
>>if we do have to do the fund-raising? We have been given access to the
>>development office and staff. One thing that I do wonder about is if they use
>>this office, who has control of the funds raised? I am also very reluctant to
>>celebrate just yet, there are 2 months until the next BoT meeting and there is
>>a lot to be done, a viable business plan that now is a combined effort between
>>the alumni board and the faculty, some undisclosed amount of money that needs
>>to be raised, and information access that has to be immediate. All of this
>>could be a simple smoke screen on their part, but I will work on whatever I
>>can until the end of October in order to see if my worst fears are confirmed
>>or my actions rewarded. I can't say for sure if this is a tactic for stalling
>>or not, so I am going on to see what happens, Hell, it is a small period of my
>>life compared with other things and I feel as if my small effor
>>t has
>>at least brought into fruition a larger and more activated community.
>>Let's see what happens.
>>
>>>And there's the rub.  Although we're all encouraged in some ways by what
>>>happened this past weekend, are we so happy to have hope that we've kinda
>>>caved in on the college becoming independent?  The BoT is "allowing" the
>>>alumni to continue to plan?  That's kind of the flavor I get from it.
>>>
>>>It seems to me they've kind of turned over their responsibility of
>>>fund-raising to the alumni.  They're saying, ok, if you want to go ahead an
>>>raise 100 million, then we can leave the college open.
>>>
>>>But will anything in the structure change.
>>>
>>>Although I suppose if we come up with 100 million, we've got a little more
>>>power.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>Michael--By any chance at this time are you or some else, perhaps
>representing AB, working on this full time? Is someone being paid to move
>affairs of the College forward?
>
>
>Art Dole '46
Art,
     I am not working on this full time and cannot speak for the AB. I have been active here in NYC with my chapter as one of the chairs and as a thing we are calling an information coordinator. Mostly I sift through info and disseminate as quickly as I can to my local chapter without any editorializing, just trying to make sure that what is ongoing gets out to people.  I was in Cincinnati and I was at Reunion so I feel pretty close to this stuff. I am cautious and somewhat optimistic but could see the whole thing caving too, we have so much to do without a real guarantee of anything. But , that being said, I still am working in any capacity I can to help the Ab and the community.