CentennialPlanning Mailing List: Re: Centennial Update - Living the Bulldog Motto: All for each and each for all

[Marty Price (emprice]

On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Biodum [at] aol.com wrote:

> Hi Terry,
> Based on the minutes from our first meeting on April 11, 2012, these are the 
> committees I've listed for the timeline. If you can think of any other 
> committees please let me know so they can be added. I will do a sample 
> timeline for one of the committees listed. When we meet we will work on the  
> blank timeline sheets for every month from April 11, 2012 until June 2014, 
> for each committee. I look forward to working with you. Thanks again for your 
> willingness to format this timeline on the computer. "All for each and each 
> for all."
> Always Expecting The Best,
> Creasie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Cullinane <doublewservices [at] gmail.com>
> To: Creasie Jordan <Biodum [at] aol.com>
> Cc: centennialplanning <centennialplanning [at] oaklandtech.com>
> Sent: Sun, May 13, 2012 7:57 pm
> Subject: [centennialplanning] Centennial Update - Living the Bulldog Motto: 
> All for each and each for all
> 
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> 
> Hi all - here is the announcement about what transpired at our meeting last 
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> month AND what we agreed to based on the notes I took.  Please take a 
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> moment to look at the agreements and see if I have missed, added or 
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> misrepresented anything.  I  have listed the names of the people who agreed 
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> to be part of the milestone timeline group.  Maybe Creasy could take the 
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> lead getting that group together if you haven't already met?  Please feel 
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> free to share and post this e-mail. 
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> I'd like to have one firm rule - this Centennial Planning group if for 
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> people who are ACTIVELY planning and attending meetings.  We will set up 
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> another listserve to share information.  I hope that makes sense to you all. 
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> Dan can you share the e-mails you've set up just so we have that here.  And 
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> any progress on the contacts database, etc. 
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> Also, I set up a google voice free phone number.  It is google voice number 
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> *510-740-8030.  *Once we get rolling, I will set up a voice message asking 
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> people to leave the contact info.  It is EASY to check those messages which 
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> are transcribed into a gmail e-mail account (OT100years [at] gmail.com).  My 
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> thinking on this is that its for people who do not use e-mail and we can 
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> call them back and get their contact info that way. 
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> Terry 510-504-3339 
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> ANNOUNCEMENT: 
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> On Saturday, April 11th,  11 Bulldogs gathered at 11am in Ms. Wolfe's room 
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> (103) to get the ball rolling on a Centennial Celebration!  There were 
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> members from the class of 1944 through 2013. 
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>  
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> This is going to be a great, get to business planning group - though there 
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> was a good deal of digression about famous and not so famous graduates and 
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> not quite graduates who shall remain nameless. 
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> The group set a broad initial timeline of meeting every three months on the 
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> 3rd Sat. at 11am at Tech., acknowledging the need for sub-committee 
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> meetings and more frequent meetings as the Centennial kickoff gets closer - 
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> the 2014/2015 school year. 
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> What came through loud and clear was a desire to reinvigorate the notion of 
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> Bulldog Pride.  Early on, the question: How can we make Bulldog Alums part 
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> of the school? shaped the discussion.  This planning group, and certainly 
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> others, would like to share the Bulldog Message throughout the planning and 
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> beyond. 
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>  
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> Over the coming months, you will be invited to join a Centennial Update 
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> yahoo group, help locate stray Bulldogs, and help build the buzz.  If you 
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> have ideas you would like to contribute, please do so by coming to the next 
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> planning meeting on Saturday, July 21 at 11am at the Oakland Tech library 
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> (formerly the auditorium for those of you who remember when). 
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> AGREEMENTS: 
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> The group agreed the Centennial should not detract from the class of 2014's 
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> graduation and that the alumni torch should be passed to those students. 
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> The group agreed that current Tech students can and should play a major 
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> role in the event. 
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> The group agreed that students, faculty and staff past and present are all 
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> part of the Centennial outreach. 
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> The group agreed this is a BIG DEAL and will commit to put the city on 
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> notice to avoid scheduling major events which might conflict. 
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> The group agreed there will be multiple events over the course of the year 
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> culminating in a Gala of some sort. 
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> The group agreed that music and fashions over all the decades should be 
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> incorporated into the Centennial events. 
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> The group agreed to look into creating an endowment fund with the proper 
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> legal advising possibly in the form of a foundation (Dick would you like to 
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> work on this with me and maybe Sheilagh?) 
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> The group agreed there is a need for a PR committee for publicity, a 
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> secretarial committee to locate and communicate with participants. 
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> The group agreed to form a subcommittee which will bring back a milestone 
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> timeline for the next 2 years to the July 21st meeting for review by the 
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> full group (Creasy, Marian, Marty, Stacy and Sheilagh) 
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> The group agreed form two yahoo groups - one for the planning committee and 
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> another for all to keep them up to date on what's happening. 
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> The group understands all funding will need to be raised and will look into 
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> locating foundations as well as other donors. 
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> The group agreed they would like to create video documentation to capture 
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> the stories of Bulldogs through the years and to energize and reconnect 
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> people for the event. 
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