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Court of Excellence
Our bylaws state that we should have a Court of Excellence consisting of any past presidents. Mike will start contacting these people so that we can for the Court and schedule our first yearly meeting. If you are interested, please contact him for more information. We’d like to get at least one past president for each 5 years so we’ll have complete coverage over the entire membership. So far I have @ 7 or so volunteers for this.
Planned Giving
Neal brought up the fact that we should start thinking about a “planned giving” program to insure the future donations to either the Association or the Scholarship Fund. I have talked with an old Little Sister (Jan Preuitt Davis) who is the Director of Planned Giving for U.C.A. she has given me her website to look at and offered to meeting with us to discuss. I will email people with this information and work on a brochure to put at our events.
Kroger Fundraising Gift Card
We have filed the 501C form and when we get back out paper from the IRS, Mike will get us set up to take advantage of this. We buy rechargeable cards and for every dollar spent at Kroger (including gas, and pharmacy) the scholarship will get 4% back.
Contact Blitz
I got a list of who National’s says are Phi Sigs. @ 2200 people. Mike is continuing to send out a list every couple of weeks of twenty of so members. He is sending to Phi Sigs with known emails from that time period.
501C
Rusty is waiting on word back from the IRS.
Facebook
Our Facebook pages now have 203 members on our regular site which is Phi Sigs and friends and have 163 members on our Phi Sig only site (upper left). This will be a good tool for us in the future for events and to keep everyone up to date on what’s going on.
Alumni Veterans
Alumni veterans displays will be made that will show all of our veterans along with any patches we can secure from them.
Chapter Eternal
We will be making some sort of display for future reunions to honor the Phi Sigs that have passed away. We will include birth and death dates as well as any other information and pictures that we can secure.
Roast & Toast
The chapter has come up with a great fundraiser. They want to do a Roast & Toast of Mike Waters. We have moved the date since it was so close to the Reunion. More information on how to embarrass Mike will follow! Mike is talking with Jared about getting a building across from the high school for $300.00 per night. We’ll have catered and kegs with all proceeds going to the chapter/housing/scholarship funds.
House
We have the house! Special thanks for the following 16 alumni that donated to help us with seed money to make it happen! We raised $1425.00 (plus have 3 checks of unknown amount on the way) which makes this a reality. Thanks to Mike Waters, John Gray, Lonnie Smith, Greg Bowman, Craig (Phi sig from another chapter that Jacob Johnson knows), Neal Anderson, English Cook, Brad Youngblood, Gene Sparkman, Tommy Johnston, Chuck Sontag, Mark Webber, Mike Woiteshek, Nathan Perry, Kevin Pray and Jason Keith.
- 2 people currently living there with one to move in mid-feb – That will be $900.00 income. The rent is $800.00 per month and the estimated utilities are $295.00 per month. Next month, they will start saving $80.00 per month from a storage building they no longer need. The utilities will eventually be split up into one equal share for the fraternity and one equal share for each member living in the house. Expenses for cleaning supplies, etc will also be done this way.
- We got the sheetrock and a bunch of supplies for the house (mainly cleaning) and have it on a 6-month no interest card from Lowes
- We are finishing out the separate garage with sheetrock and an area connecting the office with a bar that opens up out into the building.
- We plan on doing some fundraisers to help fund the house such as alumni carwashes and details as well as selling bricks for a backyard patio.
- The chapter will be coming up with a wish list that they would like to have. Stuff like a nice grill, horseshoes, dart board, privacy fence, etc.
- I would like to see a section of the wall in the chapter room dedicated to deceased alumni
Diamond Bear Brewery
Brad sent me a link to their Facebook page. They give free tours at 3:00 on Saturday. They also have a program where you can help bottle and they’ll give you free beer!! . Mike will have more details at the February meeting. At the tour, we can inquire about working a weekend. Their website says that if you volunteer to give brewery tours (1 ½ hours), they give you a free case of beer!
Founders Day
Founders Day will be March 5th this year.
Please work on stuff for the silent auction
Mike is checking with both the Hilton and the Howard Johnson in Conway about rates.
We decided to start a Phi Sig Hall of Fame. We will be inducting our founder Shannon Flowers as the inaugural member. During the business meeting this year, we will take nominations for people for the next year.
Mike will talk with Robet Tubbs about doing a slide show about his Afghanistan adventures!
Our tentative agenda for the Reunion business meeting will be the following
Scholarship
Housing
Court of Excellence
President of the Chapter’s speech
2012 Reunion committee
Housing Corporation
We had second meeting and talked about a lot of things but really need to get into the house before we can get our main stuff down.
Grand Bigs
Hopefully, we’ll need a bunch of them this next semester. What it involves is a small “goody bag” at the beginning and buying them a shirt and dinner after initiation.
Dues for next year
We discussed having different levels for next year depending on the amount donated. Mike will come up with something for next meeting to vote on. We also talked about perks for the ones that give a certain amount.
Little Sister list
Rusty asked Mike to forward his list to Barby Abney and Reggie Henderson.
Mike requested and got the ok to give the chapter 20 of our alumni cups for their house. We also voted to buy some pink glasses to sell at reunion.
Travelers
We talked about doing a travelers game again this year.
Super Bowl Party
We will sponsor the food for the chapter for them to have a nice Super Bowl party this year. Mike will get back with the pricing.
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