Cornell Club of Arizona
Board Meeting Notes
September 11, 2019
Agenda
- Convene/Roll Call/Quorum
- Old Business – Review AR’s from last BOD
- New Business
- Upcoming Events
- September Ivy Council date/location
- September CU AZ leaders
- September New Residents/Students
- October – Zinck’s
- Other – discuss
- Other business
- Next BOD meeting: 5:00 PM Sept. 20 at Carlsbad Taverns in Scottsdale
Roll Call
- Tom Dewey, Jean-Moise Jeanty, Seth Kromholz, and Doug Webb were present (online Go-To-Meeting). This constituted a quorum for conducting Club business.
Old Business – Review
8/14/2019
- Roles
- Note-taking and distribution: Rotate (Doug today, 9/11)
- Secretary/Treasurer: Seth (confirmed vote from previous meeting on 08/28)
- Young Alumni outreach – JM to arrange a hike in December
- Social Media
- Web: Seth can maintain
- FB: Donnelly + Seth can maintain
- LinkedIn: JM can maintain
- Feedback
- Update BOD minutes (Complete – closed)
- Update Pres. Letter
- Keep upd. Calendar + links “more info”
- Feature Upcoming Activities
- Link Social Media to iModules registration (all channels)
- FB – same content as website
- Master Content – CornellClubAZ.org
- Link to CU.edu (placement, events, on-line courses)
- Honor CU “logon access points”
- All: offer ideas on CU links to include
- LinkedIn – more relevant to jobs/careers/networking
- FB – same content as website
- AZ Outreach
- JM: Hotel Society
- Doug: CALS/ILR/Arts & Sciences
- Seth: Architecture/Engineering/Law
- Tom: Medical/Vet/Entrepreneur/Big Red Investments
Contacts: Keith Underwood (Hotel), Julie Philips (Hotel), Dick Fincher (ILR), Amy Miller (ILR)
Happy Hour Friday Sept 20 (see events)
- Sept/Oct/Nov events
- Ivy meeting:
- Scheduled Sept. 09 (note added after the meeting – had to cancel, need to reschedule)
- Hotel Society – Discuss at upcoming Happy Hour
- CU AZ leaders:
- Happy Hour 9/20/2019 at Carlsbad Taverns. Leader event starts 5:30, CC AZ Board discussion at 5:00.
- Zinck’s Night October 17, 2019 5:30-8:00 at Rúla Búla in Tempe
- Discussed fee for event to propose to host Steve Goumas.
- New Student event – Hike on Dec. 06 (JM to organize)
- Cornell Cares Day – can be scheduled Nov. to January (or even other times). Doug to find the contact for the Stanford Club, which has hosted events in past years (Tracey Jaffee)
- Annual Holiday Party – January (Doug to reach out to Karen Beckvar)
- Ivy meeting:
- Follow up: Survey at Send off
- TD: Share list of possible activities from survey, feedback, etc.
- TD: Publish list of Send-off attendees
- TD + JM: stir up idea for recent grads
- TD + Seth: stir up idea for seasoned grads
8/28/2019
- Discussion of current banking issues
- Seth needs a copy of Board minutes showing that he is now serving as Club Secretary.
- Currently Chase is assessing $15/mo for balance below $1500.
- Seth – prepare an estimate of annual operating expenses for the Club – so we can estimate annual Fundraising needs (AR)
- Events
- See events listed above
New Business – 8/28/2019
- See notes above