Add to this my boundless passion for our beloved sport, and I feel ready to put my name out there for president.

My girlfriend’s going to kill me.

I think we’re all big kids and we should pursue what we’re interested in. There is certainly no shortage of ideas. Adler has expressed interest in helping start up organizations. There is no reason why that can’t be fleshed out further now. Who, what, and how that would work needs to be thought through, written down and put up for comment. Anyone who wants to think more about the WRCT broadcast can have at it, call them up and see what can be done for next year. An outline of buggy 101 book/class would be an awesome topic for discussion.

In the interest of efficiency, just let other people know what you’re up to. Dani and I will happily post here anything that anyone wants to share with the group. The limitations that exist right now are that we don’t have the web forum set up yet to gather contacts and funds.

Also, the plan is to have events for alums everywhere as well as the regional events for prospective and incoming students.

I think going forward, it should not be hard for everyone to contribute, and people in charge can be anywhere, but I think to get this off the ground a crew that can actually show up at Alumni House would be great, since I’m experiencing their capacity to not return calls.

Seriously, what can out of towners do?

I, personally, have sent this information to everyone I have contact with that might be interested. I hope everyone else does the same. We know this not a perfect process, really we do. So, we can sit around and discuss how imperfect it is, or we can agree to move forward in the way that makes most sense right now and then iron things out later. There has been plenty of talk about this with no action, so I think now’s the time to support those who are willing to step up.

I would be particularly inclined to help with the web development, but I could also probably get into having one of the official roles.

Eventually, maybe we can have sort of regional point-people for alumni activities and prospective student events as well.

Tommy – thanks for the contacts, I’m sure any and all of those guys will be good for the cause. I am hesitant to solicit anyone, though. It’ll be a fairly decent time commitment (if we do it right)…so I’d like to see people who come forward of their own volition, and have the ability and relationships to achieve our goals. Those guys should come on and tell us how they want to get involved.

President:
- organize meetings with other Buggy Brain Trust leaders
- make meeting agendas, raise issues of committee members and bring these to attention of other leaders, esp. Treasurer for funding
- gather needs and wants of committees and set up meetings with administration
- act as primary ambassador to administration offices (Alumni Relations, Student Affairs, etc.)

“C.F.O.”:
- the person who arranges all things involving income
- works with Alumni Relations and Annual Giving people to raise awareness of our needs and increase donations towards the B.B.T.
- ties in with the P.R. chair to get the word out about donations and ease any fear in reluctant donors of being targeted by the University for future donations
- if possible, maximizes returns on donations through a fund as seen fit by the University
- looks for the big $1M donor

Treasurer:
- interface with funding sources to set up spending accounts
- apportion funding to committees based on availability, priorities as set by B.B.T. leaders, and requests by committee members
- monitor spending of the organization as a whole, set budgets, constrain spending to budgets
- make a 5 year funding proposal and help identify future needs and growth of various arms of the buggy alumni org

plus individual committee heads like P.R., History and Preservation, Student Involvement…

Kat Crawford (regularly posts to live_journal buggy_geeks forum)genuinekfc@livejournal.com
Aiton Goldman (started a general information buggy wiki that he wants to revive)
yanetut@gmail.com
Sam Swift (started pikabuggy.com)
samswift@cmu.edu
Carsen Kline (half volunteered to write regular buggy column for Tartan)
carsen@gmail.com

Frank and Lou – the ancient CIA vets that show up occasionally at rolls