30 June,
2009
Dear Fellow
Cardinal Alumnus,
Thank you
as always for your energy and involvement with our local club. You
ARE the UofL Alumni Club of Southern California. We are at
the beginning of another fiscal year, which means it is dues time.
Please take a moment to fill out the attached form, scribble out your
check for a measly $25.00, and pop it in the mail. A return envelope is
enclosed.
The past
year has seen great changes in our club, and the year ahead is even more
promising. (Remember what they told you in school; keep up with the
class. It’s very hard to catch up once you fall behind.) You can keep
up to date by visiting the club website – and the club myspace page.
Facebook and Twitter are on the way.
www.UofLSocalCards.com
www.myspace.com/uoflsocalcards
There are
over 1400 University of Louisville Alumni, Spouses and Friends in
Southern California. (Can you believe it?) Membership and
participation in the club has tripled over the past five years! And we
have events going on (some big, some tiny) every month! We get the word
out “on-line” to our email distribution list of over 600 participants.
Since we send only a few US Mailings a year, I urge you to take a
moment, visit our local club website, and send us your email
address. We’ll keep you notified of our growing list of events,
and we NEVER give your information to any third party for any reason.
Our club
dues are CHEAP. While many schools’ alumni clubs are thinly veiled
structures designed to squeeze money out of you, in our club, that is
definitely NOT the case. While you are (of course) always welcome to
donate, the modest $25.00 annual fee is the only “hard sell” we present
to you all year. Any other business between you and the university is
your business, and the club respects your privacy. I am very
proud of this fact.
Our funds
come primarily from dues, and from a couple of our events. For example,
at our Derby Party, we auction and raffle donated items, and serve up a
feast of food donated and prepared by caring folks who know how to
rattle a pot. Our Derby Party is the rockin’-est thing this side of the
Mississippi! As we are an all-volunteer group, we have virtually NO
overhead. All of the labor and effort in the club is donated by very
cool people who share your Louisville connection. Contact me if you’d
like to be one of them.
So where
does the money go? Nearly 100% of it (other than checking account fees
and things like that) goes right into our own William Caldwell
Scholarship Fund. So if you know a bright Southern California kid wants
to go to school in Louisville, you and I, via the scholarship fund, are
here to help out. (Maybe someone helped you out a little when you were
in school.) That’s what our club exists to do, and that’s where your
dues payment goes. It’s not much to ask.
And we’re
not just coughing up bucks and wring our hands; we’re going out and
having fun! Whether you graduated in 2008 or 1938 – whether you like
sports, game watches, winery tours, days at the track, parties, visits
by faculty and administrators (like President James Ramsey who comes
from time to time to share his vision of where the University is going)
– we’ve got something going on that you will like to do, and some mighty
cool folks with whom to do it!
But as a
reminder to those who do financially contribute to the University . . .
when you give, please specify, in addition to your name, that you are
giving through the Alumni Club of Southern California. You will get
full credit for your gift, but our account will be credited as well. It
is a “two for one” gift. If you have any questions about this, please
be encouraged to contact me directly and confidentially.
Thanks
again for joining. Please send your check for $25.00, payable to The
University of Louisville Southern California Alumni Club, to our
Treasurer:
Dr. Kelli Barnett
PO Box 25596
Los Angeles, CA 90025
A return
envelope is enclosed for your convenience, but remember you can also pay
by your electronic check online, or online by Visa/MC and Paypal on our
website. Please feel free to contact me by e-mail
(joseph@purewhitelight.com) or by phone (310-392-9395) if you have
questions, concerns, or ideas for club activities. Then please fill out
the attached data sheet, and send it with your check. On behalf of the
University of Louisville Alumni Association and our local club, thank
you in advance for your participation and support.
Sincerely,
Joseph
Willenbrink. (AS '85)
President
University
of Louisville Alumni Club of Southern California
ß Only $25.00 