Minutes from Centennial Meeting, 1/7/06

Cornell Acacia Centennial History Meeting
January 7, 2006
Minutes


Cost Strategy:

Publication
1. Must make people aware of the project. If people are interested, try to set up an interview. Then maybe people will pitch in.
2. Newsletter: Paul is editor of the newsletter, the Centennial Horizon
3. We only have three writers: Dave, Tom, Paul.
4. Dave will write an article for the Traveler.

Production
1. Steve and his daughter have been scanning in old travelers which will be exported
a. We need an alumni volunteer to work with current webmaster (Jared) to build a page that will be linked to the cornellacacia site to put the scanned travelers on the web.
2. Style
a. Goal: to make the book interesting to people content wise and not just a picture book (but it must be both).
b. It will be a 9 by 6 sheet, font Century School Book; ¾ inch margin, bleading into ½ inch in the center; hardcover form;
3. Content
a. Roughly 120 picture shave been scanned. We need to extract cornelian images. We need to get the permission of the Cornellian to reprint these pictures.

Agenda:
1. Centennial Logo
a. Centennial Logo is needed. Tom has a draft for this.
2. Resources for Centennial
a. Ithaca Dinner
i. How will we make this a family event?
1. tours of campus, winery, open tour of house day, golf;
ii. Date: July ’07?
b. CACO (Cornell Acacia Class Officer)
i. This is a new position. This is the equivalent of a graduating class alumni officer. The goal is to allow them to be the point person to make sure that each person is still plugged into the officer.
ii. Responsibilities: Keep people in your class abreast of the affairs of fraternity, try to get them to pay dues, tell them of upcoming fraternity events.
iii. We will try to nail down all of the CACO’s by “this summer”.
iv. Paul will be Caco for ‘98’ 99
v. Ilya ‘03
vi. David ‘02
vii. Jay ‘04
viii. Jerry ‘68
c. Newsletter: The Centennial Horizon
d. Cornellacacia.blogspot.com
i. Currently used only for history things.
ii. David will be a co-contributor and he will do centennial postings
3. Bottom Line: this is a huge project. If you want to invest the time, you will have a larger say. If you don’t want to invest the time, you likely will not have a long say.
4. Point men for the project
a. Centennial – Dave
b. Newsletter – Paul
c. Interviews – Zach
d. Research - Tom