CAN Meeting Minutes

February 4, 2008

Executive Committee members present: Kevin Folk, Lamont Rooker, Greg Merritt, Elaine Freedman, Anthony Jones, Chris Maurer, Ashley Philips, Aaron Steffensmeier

Schools represented: American, Arizona, Arizona State, Cal Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, Colgate, Colorado, Duke, East Carolina, East Stroudsburg, Florida International, Florida State, Gannon, George Mason, Georgetown, Georgia, George Washington, Iowa, Lehigh, Michigan, Minnesota, NC State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Ohio U, Oregon, Penn, Penn State, Pitt, Providence, Purdue, South Carolina, Stanford, Tennessee, Tulane, Hartford, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, William & Mary, Wisconsin, Xavier

Called to order – 7:30pm

1. Kevin Folk – Intro and welcome
2. Individual Chapter Updates – review of upcoming events
3. Committee Updates

Membership – Kevin – You can update your chapter point of contact on the website yourself

Public Relations - Greg

1. Next meeting changed to March 10
2. To get CAN Happenings emails, sign up on the website
3. CAN basketball will be videoed on Friday as a test run of a potential CAN sports show

Social & Community Service – Elaine

1. March 8 – T-30 Days til Softball Party – McFadden’s
2. April 12 – Final CAN basketball game will be on the Verizon court, same night as the Wizards v. Bulls game – Must have a ticket to the Wizards game to see the CAN game. There will be a pre-game happy hour TBD.
3. Caps event – 140 alums attended. We need feedback on other Happy Hour locations in the area. Email Elaine@dcalum.org with suggestions.
4. Flag Football post-season party at CCSP – 900+ people attended

Sports – Maurer

1. Football done – congrats to Purdue on their win
1. Nick – food donations came to 480 lbs. – we plan to do another food drive at the softball tourney
2. Basketball and Volleyball – both started – no problems yet
3. Softball – applications will be up on the website Feb 22. The deadline for applications will be March 7.
4. Soccer – applications Feb 22, deadline March 5. Also, we’re still looking for a location – please contact Maurer with ideas.
5. Golf – any golf events post on the events page and they will be pulled to be additionally posted in the CAN golf section.

CAN Election Timeline

Elections will be held next month, at the March 10 meeting

Information, including application, is posted on the front page at dcalum.org

Election will include the 4 officer positions (President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer) plus 3 Advisory Committee positions

Applications to become voting chapters (Advisory Council Chapter Members) will be online Feb 15 for chapter presidents to fill out.

Some previous board experience has been added to the positions

Info will be sent to POC’s and should be passed on to chapter presidents

Elections will take place at the March 10 meeting, with 1 vote per Advisory Council Chapter members in attendance

Applicants will speak for a few minutes and have a short Q&A

News and Notes

CAN and the National Park Service event – park cleanup on Sat, March 1 in Anacostia Park. Please contact your coaches to get as many people there as possible. Hillary Maxwell from Baylor will be coordinating the effort.

Gold Cup – May 3 – Kickoff meeting will be mid-Feb. This is the 10^th year of University Row. Check out www.universityrow.org for more info. More info on Gold Cup at www.vagoldcup.org

“Being a Better Board Member” presentation from Jennifer Lindsay (jlindsay@greaterdccares.org)

Next Meeting: Elections! March 10

Adjourn at 9:12pm