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Update from Your Class Senator --
1. CAS Fully Formed Up:
We have been in transition from a "Class Advisory Senate" of only a handful of
classes being represented, with "temporary" acting officers (Dick Sexton, '60,
acting president), to a substantial body of class representatives. Several
classes have not yet appointed their respective "Senator", but we are getting
there. By 31 July 07 we will have elected three CAS officers and an Executive
Committee of three. The new AOG Board of Directors (BOD) -- whose term began 01
July 07 -- will approve the operating procedures of the CAS.
2. Big Deals Facing the AOG:
The new AOG BOD has agreed that "...a first priority" (sic) of the AOG is
fundraising. To that end, the BOD will form a "Fund Raising Advisory Council" (FRAC)
to study the issue. A strawman fundraising organization and methodology has been
posted on the AOG website as a PowerPoint presentation. It is 45 pages and
probably more info than you thought you needed. The question is this: As an
association, how do we raise funds and control what they are used for? This is
as many-faceted issue, with one possible overarching solution including the
formation of a "foundation" for the purpose.
I seek your inputs to your Senator (cbneel@msn.com), but please look at the body
of available information to see what is being considered. For the PP
presentation, go to www, usafa.org, then to sequential menu: About the AOG /
About Fundraising / Raising Private Funds / then view the PowerPoint. Good Luck.
CAS will not yet vote, one way or another, on the direction this new issue
should go, but the CAS will eventually weigh in w/ the BOD.
If this all sounds like the AOG is all about committees, panels, strategic
plans, visions, missions, goals, metrics, etc., you are right. But everyone is
trying to do the right thing. The struggle to get real results is mighty, and
the overall results have been highly laudable. [The Indians are still trying to
capture the Chiefs.]
3. AOG Strategic Plan:
Review this also, on www.usafa.org / Strategic Planning. Challenges for the CAS/AOG
include (a.) Establish new Chapters, (b.) Recruit new members, (c.) Update AOG
bylaws. Nothing really new here, except that bylaws will need to cover new
approaches to fundraising. The CAS mission is to improve communication and
involvement of class members and the AOG BOD. "Let The Members Decide."
Cheers to All, Charlie
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