Central High Alumni Association Meeting of July 21, 2003

 

Meeting was called to order at 5:06 p.m. by Chuck Sankey (CS)

 

Secretary took roll and a quorum of members were present.

 

Dr. Chopra was introduced by CS and Dr. Chopra spoke about his hopes and visions for alumni association. He offered his help and that of his staff to help the association become effective.

 

David Lujan mentioned to Dr. Chopra that two things the alumni association still needs are a list of mentoring opportunities for alumni and a dedicated telephone line with voice messaging.

 

David Lujan very reluctantly agreed to take notes for the meeting but made it very clear that he was only doing it this one time.  :)

 

CS announced new telephone number for alumni association is 602-764-7505.

 

Chuck Sankey (CS) asked Craig Pletenik, PUHSD Director of Public Relations, what information he needed to prepare a press release announcing the formation of the alumni association.  Craig asked why would a Central High grad want to join the alumni association? 

 

1)      There are a number of successful and happy graduates.  – CS

2)      Promote public education. – Stephen Ahern (SA)

3)      Central at one time was one of the best schools in the nation.  Want to pass that on to current students.  CS

 

CS and SA agreed to be available to speak with Arizona Republic reporter.

 

Discussion on the Articles of Incorporation (Phil Tower and Tim Hogan):

 

• Need to decide who is going to sign articles of incorporation.
• Need to decide who the attorney is going to be that will serve as the statutory agent.
• First thing to decide is who is going to be on the Board of Directors because we need to identify those individuals in the Articles of Incorporation.
• Phil Tower (PT) agreed to be the statutory agent.
• Motion was made to name CS and Tim Hogan (TH) as the incorporators in the Articles. (moved and approved)
• Discussion as to who would be on the Board roster and it was discussed that the following individuals would be on the Board:  SA, PT, Dianna Krauss (DK), Steve Rhue (SR), Sherry Tower (ST), and Gaye Kelley (GK).

 

Discussion followed as to whether directors and alumni association membership should be limited to alumni or should others, such as parents, be allowed.  PT said he assumed it would  just be alumni but sees no reason why others should be prevented from joining.  CS expressed his concerns with homeowners associations allowing outsiders to have membership.  DK said there are parents who would be very beneficial to the group.  SA said we should allow anyone who wants to join become a member.

 

No additional changes to the Articles were suggested.  A motion was made to approve the Articles dated 6/23/03 and the motion was approved.

 

Discussion of the bylaws.

Discussion as to the length of the term of officers.  CS proposed staggered terms for officers.  PT moved that officers terms be staggered and that motion was approved.

 

Discussion on the overall structure of the Alumni Association.

CS asked whether there were any of the listed committees that we do not need.

Discussion as to what committees we need and how we can consolidate some of the committees.

 

Decided to change “corporate sponsorship” committee to “sponsorships” committee.

 

CS distributed the bylaws.  Motion made to approve bylaws and that motion was approved.

 

CS announced that he opened the association bank account at Bank of America and that the association has four separate accounts:

 

·        General Association Fund

·        Scholarship

·        Principal’s Fund

·        Hall of Fame

 

CS asked whether any members had incurred any expenses. 

·        SA stated that he had a $40 expense for 1 year website rental.

·        CS stated he had two expenses: lock box and a 1,000 copy copier card.

 

It was discussed that the membership drive would be from August 1 through Halloween.  CS reiterated we need someone to be in charge of the membership drive.  CS stated that the main responsibility for this person would be to receive and log incoming membership applications.

 

Discussion followed as to whether website registration form should allow contributions to the Hall of Fame and Principal’s Fund or should we wait until later to add those additional options.  Decided to wait to offer those options.

 

CS stated he was going to re-write front page of website.

 

It was decided that the first social event would be on Friday October 17 at the Central High Homecoming football game.

 

SA went over the website.  Announced the new web address is: www.centralhighalumni.org 

• SA stated he would like to get additional photos to put on website. 
• CP stated he would work with SA to get those photos. 
• CS suggested that we follow the class of ’67 practice of getting a sponsor for the website.

 

The group was asked to suggest names to add at least 3 highly visible individuals to the Board of Directors.  The following individuals were suggested:

• Volker Sonntag, M.D.
• Brian Colangelo (General Manager of Phoenix Suns)
• Phil Gordon (candidate for mayor)
• Marty Shultz, SRP government relations
• ??? Galvin (head of Motorola)
• Cindy McCain (wife of Senator John McCain)
• Judy Kay??  (actress)
• Trung Candidate (running back for St. Louis Rams)

 

Next meeting to be held on Monday August 18^th at 5:00pm.

 

DL to ask some current class officers to attend next meeting to discuss Fall social.

 

Meeting adjourned at 6:40 p.m.