Spring 2002

Association President Bob Schacht Outlines Goals For Year

Alumni are an important part of the Rose-Hulman family. Our personal and corporate financial support of the school, our involvement in the many activities of Rose-Hulman, our identification and encouragement of outstanding young people considering attending Rose, and our support of those graduating from Rose are important opportunities we have to serve our school.

I'd like to encourage all of you to participate in the many activities of the Alumni Association. Our Board committees can also always use help. Many of our committees can meet by conference call, so volunteering doesn't necessarily mean a lot of travel, if any at all.

As part of our first Alumni Association Board meeting of the new year, we discussed several goals that we will concentrate on for this year. They are:

• Involve more alumni in the Association and the activities we sponsor. We need to give people a good reason to be involved.
• The Alumni Association needs to place a special emphasis on young graduates. Our Alumni Board needs to be more reflective of the current makeup of our
  alumni.
• Expand the size, number, and activities of the Rose Tech Clubs.
• We need more, and better, communication to alumni in the ways that they want to be communicated with. ie Echoes, Web site, e-mail.
• Benchmark the Rose-Hulman Alumni Association with similar colleges. Use best practices to improve our association.
• Look for ways we can provide service and help to our alumni.  Career services or continuing education may be examples.

I hope you'll join me this year in moving our Alumni Association forward.  It takes all of us to be a success.