August 2005 VTAACC Minutes

Attendees: Craig Dennis, Ben Rojan, John Glass, Connie Glass, Lauren Spahr, Jennifer Jones, Shane Kleinpeter, Jonathan Mangels, Nikki Alvarez

No New Attendees

Community Service Update

  • Operation Christmas Child - A date has not been confirmed yet. Lauren will let everyone know once a date is set.

Scholarship

  • Goal is to have an article, on the two recipients, run in the Observer by the end of this month.

Bus Trips

  • Notification email has been sent out to local alumni.
  • Trips have been posted on the website
  • Mangles and Craig are riding the bus for the NCSU and/or Duke games

Social Update

  • Joint VA Alumni Event –the event originally planned for August 10th has been postponed
    • Ted will begin working on planning a joint social later in the fall
  • BBQ- We are waiting to touch base with Les concerning this event.

Beer Tasting

  • The event will be held at Green Rice Studio in NoDa on Nov. 12th.
  • Nikki & Ben are working on a speaker & getting in touch with local restaurants concerning food donations.

Fall Mailer
The mailer details have been submitted to B-burg. Mailer should arrive around Sept.23rd.

The following events will be included in the mailer:

  • BC Bus Trip
  • Beer Tasting
  • Football Watching
  • Community Service Update
  • Beer Tasting

Next Meeting - Monday, September 12th (same place, same time).