GALILEO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
MEETING OF MAY 13, 2010
GALILEO ACADEMY, ROOM 210
DIRECTORS PRESENT: Toni Alessandra, Sisvan DerHarootunian,
Dennis Eleen, Lance Hughston, Monica Kirkland, Barbara LaRocca, Joe
Scafidi, Augie Venezia
DIRECTORS ABSENT: Charlene Fachner, Jesse Figueroa, Lenore
LaRocca, Cordy Surdyka
ALUMNI: Janet Neilsen
The meeting was called to order by President Dennis Eleen at 6:30 PM at
Galileo Academy. Dennis officially thanked the “Spring Fling” committee
for an outstanding evening held at the SFIAC. He also announced the
baseball game being played on this date at AT&T Park with Galileo
challenging Washington for the championship.
The minutes were read by Dennis from the meeting of 4/8/10. Corrections
were made and the corrected minutes will be sent by Dennis to the Board
Members by email. Joe Scafidi reported the treasurer’s report as follows:
$16,967.63 in our checking account and $17,685.45 in the endowment fund.
The interest had not yet been posted to the endowment fund at the present
date. Joe reported a net profit from the Spring Fling of $2,793.62, based on
information he has currently received.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
MEMBERSHIP: Toni reported that the membership drive based on letters
mailed appears to be going well. Some modifications to the membership
application will be made so that members may more easily retain the basic
information of GAA and still return the alumni portion. Toni will also be
using a coding at the bottom of the application which will identify where the
application was distributed.
DATABASE: Joe reported that the present membership is 399. There have
been 123 renewals so far which amount to 31% of alumni. He
recommended that another letter be sent in June to those members that have
not yet responded. He also reported that PayPal is up and working for
contributions. There is an 85 cent fee per $25.00 payment.
PUBLIC RELATIONS: Char was not present. She did send board members
a report regarding the Spring Fling.
NEWLETTER: Sisvan requested that an article be submitted for the next
Observer regarding the Spring Fling.
WEBSITE: Vaughn was not present.
OLD BUSINESS
Dennis suggested that board members take turns volunteering for the
meetings conducted by the Council of Alumni that Joe and Augie have been
attending. Sisvan volunteered to attend the next meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
Dennis discussed an idea brought to him by Bruce Eng regarding enrollment
of 2010 graduates to GAA. He will discuss this further with Bruce. The
board agreed with the concept.
Dennis brought the board up to date with his endeavor to make the school
observatory operational. Extensive discussion resulted with many ideas
generated but with much more research needed. Dennis will bring
information back to us as it is generated.
Discussion of the Summer Picnic will take place at the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:40 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Monica Kirkland
Acting Secretary
THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
AT GALILEO. A SUMMER MEETING WILL BE HELD IF IT IS
NECESSARY AND THE BOARD WILL BE NOTIFIED.