Attendance:

Cabinet:
Ande Croll
Paul Strasma
Neal Groothuis
Doug Pratt
Kelly Baluta
Pooja Agarwal
Scott Swanson
Jason Orloff

Student Council:
Mike Rasim
Jamison Hill

IMSA:
Chris Kolar
Carolyn Johnson

(Sendhill Revuluri was excused from this meeting)


The meeting was called to order at 8:07 P.M. Central Standard Time.

The first item for action was the acceptance of Jason Orloff's resignation from the office of Vice-President. Doug moved to accept it, Kelly seconded. The motion carried by unanimous voice vote.

Next was approval of Paul Strasma to fill the now-open Vice-Presidential seat. Ande, Kelly, and Neal, as the three remaining officers, unanimously approved Paul's appointment to the position.

The matter of filling the at-large representative seat was tabled.

At this time, Jamison made three proposals on behalf of Student Council:

- Student Council coordinating with the IAA to get the University Host program advertised to students. Charlie will contact Mike or Jamison to work this out.

- Having the IAA help advertise Acronym subscriptions for alumni. Concerns were raised about the IAA being used as a vehicle for soliciting on behalf of IMSA organziations. It was decided that Neal will set up a page for the Acronym editors to provide contact information for interested alumni on iaa.org. Paul also noted that the current version of myIMSA does not allow alumni to note interest in subscribing to student publications or volunteering for University Hosts.

- Creating a big brother/big sister program at colleges.
This folded into university hosts -- Charlie will discuss this with Jamison and Mike.

Next, Paul gave a brief description of LinkedIn. Discussion followed. The idea will be raised again once we feel that myIMSA has reached a sufficient percent of alumni participating, in large part due to concerns about launching too many things at once.

Chris then gave a description of the longitudinal cohort survey, and how it is changing; notably, that it will no longer be targetting a small number of people from a class, but the entire class. Paul volunteered to work with Chris on how the IAA can help with the longitudinal study. Chris will provide text to Doug for the spring IMSAlum to announce that the longitudinal cohort study will be covering entire classes.

The matter of filling the at-large representative seat was taken from the table.
Paul moved to appoint Jason Orloff to the open at-large position. Neal seconded. There was some discussion preceding the vote. Pooja, Kelly, Neal, and Doug voted aye, Scott abstained. The motion carried.

Kelly spoke about the alumni giving campaign. Working on alumni outreach for different classs are: John Hoesley ('89-'91), Chelsea Hopper ('92-'94), Marty DiMarzio ('95-'97), and the IAA ('98-'02). '03-'05 will be covered by the Javal Shah memorial effort, about which more later. Also, a gentle reminder was given that everyone on the cabinet should give this year if they have not already done so. :)

Doug then spoke about the Javal Shah effort. Javal was killed in a car wreck last year on the way back from a baseball game.
A special fund was established to build dugouts at the varsity ball field at IMSA in his memory. An appeal is being made to the classes of '03-'05. Parents' Council and Javal Shah's family have made gifts to the fund.

Ande asked about getting the iaa.org domain under the control of the cabinet. Scott will contact Jim Browne (the current owner of the domain) about his willingness to give it the IAA. Ande will talk to appropriate people at IMSAFund about receiving the domain and making some recognition of the donation should Jim be willing to part with it.

Pooja gave an intersession update. She raised the possibility of having a (perhaps unofficial) Chicago club event during the week of Intersession. She will talk to Jason.

Paul spoke very briefly about the survey results. He noted that the highest priority among alumni shown on the survey was cleaning up the website.

Kelly spoke similarly briefly about IMSA preview day. She was the only alumna/us at the event.

Doug spoke about reunions. Things seem to be proceeding smoothly; Pooja will be coordinating the '01 reunion.

Ande spoke about the IMSA Archives She proposed having people come in over intersession week to help identify alumni in archive photos. Scott will work with Marti Guarin, IMSA's archivist, to coordinate this.

Kelly noted that John Hoesley is the treasurer of the IMSAFund board,

Scott noted that Erin Roche is on the IMSA Board of Trustees.

Paul moved that we move the next cabinet meeting to 16 Jan 2006, since the current date is in the middle of intersession week.
Kelly seconded. The motion passed with unanimous voice vote.

Doug moved to adjourn at approximately 10:00 P.M. Central Standard Time. Kelly seconded. All were very much in favor. :)