ROP - Dinner - Alumni

ROP

  It has been a pleasure indeed to have Ana C. Aldana '07 and Guadalupe Barragan '07 as interns in the alumni office for the past several weeks. These young ladies know more about the computer operation than the executive director does you may be certain.

  Also Guadalupe has done the job no one wishes to do without objection. What job is that? Making the files look presentable and at the same time more readily available. These young ladies have stepped in the "job" without hesitation and doing a great job in assisting the alumni association.

  My hat goes out to Mrs. Linda Beylik for training these students to such high standards.

  These students know more about computers than many of us older generations. 

DINNER

  The most interesting dinner application came this week from Lindy Thomas Reilley '87.

  Lindy came into the office and said she wanted to make dinner reservations for: John Reilly '88 (husband), Marguerite Bartels Gregory '30 (grandmother), Lin Thomas '59 (father), Judy Gregory Thomas '59 (mother, and Andrew Reilley '2007 (son). We have had generations like this before; however with four generations--it is quite an affair.

  Reservations are close to 100; however, the number is lagging behind last year's number.

QUICKBBOOKS (Accounting)

  Have received all the information regarding our new quickbooks for 2006. Now ungrading  the budget for 20007. When in full operation, it will tell us where every penny is going much more quickly than with the old method. Our thanks go out to Brian McCoy who is an expert in this area.

ABSENCE

  Your Executive Director spent a week in Connecticut and Massachusetts for the purpose of seeing our grand daughter graduate from Northeastern College in Boston, Massachusetts.

  The enclosed athletic stadium was made into a commencement forum with hundreds of students receiving their "large" diplomas and degrees. Megan majored in criminalogy and was cum laude. She didn't even tell her father--we read it in the program.

  What a beautiful conferring of honorary degrees, awards, and many such wonderful things that occur at graduations.

BOSTON

  If you haven't been to Boston, you should visit. Go to the Prudential Tower and hear the comments about the history. You have read about them in the textbooks; however, you can see the areas where all that history happened.

  This is my second attempt at typing this and getting it into the website. Pray with me!

E-mails

   For those of you writing e-mails--answers are being done as quickly as possible. There are not a lot of people in the office to answer them.

   At the moment Bill Reaves '70 has come from the state of Washington, as he always does before the dinner, to assist in any way.

  This time I "stuck" him with the job of helping update the life and life/spouse memberships.

  It will soon replace he information on the site.

  As executive director, I do not know enough about the website to get it updated and this all takes time. 

  We get e-mails about the website on the Fillmore Unified School District. It has been disconnected (or whatever) and they do not have the personnel to keep it up. Our website manager has had a spat of illness so is behind a bit; however, all things will get done.

  What we need our volunteers for the vast among of work that the website, etc. have generated. Appreciated by us; however, it does take time!