[Alumni-chat] Recent Visit to YS

[Elizabeth Moloney]

My experience of Straumanis as a fundraiser is distinctly different -  
she urged us all, at an alum gathering in NYC early in her tenure as  
president,  to give "at least a thousand" and anything smaller wasn't  
worth it.  Not an effective strategy by any stretch of imagination  
and it struck me as being totally out of touch with the reality of  
her audience (specifically a "young alumni" event - many of us were  
still paying off student loans at the time.  A welcoming and reality  
based plea for any amount would have been a reassuring change - and  
much more effective).

-beth '95




On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:35 PM, dude (dudevoyeur at gmail.com) wrote:

>   I also remember urging Joan Straumanis to urge all alumni to  
> give, even a small donation, as many grants were based on the  
> number of alumni who contributed rather than the amount donated.   
> She did.  It didn't help much.