[15352] in APO-L
Alumni Service Project an Nationals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neal/Molly Farmer)
Thu Nov 7 23:09:58 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:23:06 -0600
Reply-To: nmfarmer@ix.netcom.com
From: Neal/Molly Farmer <nmfarmer@ix.netcom.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Dear alumni and chapters,
We are planning to have an alumni service project at Nationals -- we are
setting up tables from which we will attempt to sell Life Memberships and
Sustaining Memberships. We need alumni to sign up for times (likely in
one-hour increments).
Also, we will have a silent auction of sports memorabilia at Nationals.
We need undergrads as well as alumni to sign up to man the table for the
silent auction.
Please keep these projects in mind when you go to Nationals. E-mail me
if you are sure you would like to participate in these service projects.
-- Neal Farmer, national alumni chairman
P.S. -- This is the difference between Life and Sustaining Membership:
Why Should I Become A Sustaining Member in Alpha Phi Omega
National Service Fraternity?
SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP
SM was created in Dec., 1994, for the purpose of getting more alumni
involved in APO. Think of its function like a university's ex-students'
association, which is to keep in touch with alumni. Those involved with
SM will have a newsletter with updates about them, be given direction on
how to form local alumni associations and provide an avenue to obtain
APO alumni news.
Is Sustaining Membership different from Life Membership?
The SM program is different from LM in three main ways.
1) LM is a one-time fee ($50 for undergrads and $100 for graduates), while
SM is a revolving fee ($20 per year or $50 for three years).
2) LM receives a lifetime subscription to our quarterly national
magazine -- the Torch & Trefoil. SM receives the Alumni Light newsletter,
also mailed quarterly. The Alumni Light, however, is geared solely for
alums.
3) AL is mailed for free for one year to recent graduates. This provides
recent graduates with a way of staying in touch with the fraternity in that
time immediately after graduation when many changes are happening in
their lives. This also encourages people to keep the office informed of their
current address as we lose track of so many people's whereabouts in the first
year after they graduate.
In other words, think of LM as a way to contribute for a financial safety
net for the undergraduate fraternity. Think of SM as a way for alumni to
participate in leadership, friendship and service after they graduate.
What do I get when I join SM?
As a SM, you will receive:
1) The Alumni Light newsletter has a section for a Local Alumni
Association calendar, a Jobs Hotline portion (for either jobs wanted or
employees needed) and sketches on alumni.
2) The National Alumni Committee has developed a how-to booklet on
How to Start a Local Alumni Association, which is available upon request
from the National Office by SMs. For those who are so inclined, this is an
excellent way to begin local associations by using the trial-and-error
methods of other associations.
This service also is available to all alums, not just SMs. But our hope is
that SMs will be in the forefront of starting new Local Alumni Associations.
3) Corporate Associations. SMs receive notification about APO corporate
tie-ins/discounts. We have established a new program for discounts in such
diverse areas as travel, entertainment, photographic processing, oil changes
for vehicles and car rentals. You don't have to be an SM or a LM to take part
in Corporate Associations. But as an SM, you'll be notified about new
Corporate Associations as they are formed. If you take advange of these
discounts, your SM might pay for itself.
4) Participation in the Career Connection. The CC is a listing of the
careers of the SM participants, which is kept on a data base in California by
National Alumni Committee member Eleanor Gabrielli. Undergrads may
contact SMs through Eleanor and talk directly with the alum in the field in
which they want to study and ask pertinent questions. Contact Eleanor
through E-mail at elgab@aol.com, or write to her through the National
Office.
This could be called a mentoring program, and it certainly could end up
being one of the more-important things that the National Alumni
Committee has done.
Do I have to join LM before I can join SM?
People may join both the LM and SM, or neither. One does not preclude
the other, nor is one the outgrowth of the other.
Our hope is that alumni will want to join both, and that in 5-10 years, the
SM program will be strong enough to where we have:
*increased our recognized Local Alumni Associations from its current
status of approximately 30 associations to triple digits,
*that the CC will have helped undergrads choose a profession that they
will like, and
*that alumni through the Alumni Light will be able to keep up with
people they knew in their respective chapters and met at conventions.
To that end, we also have 24-hour access to alumni programs through our
alumni page at: http://www.bga.com/~rancher/alumni.html
-- National Alumni Committee (July, 1996)
