WBHS Alumni Association

WBHS Alumni Association – 2nd Annual All-Alumni Reunion, October 1

Homecoming is rapidly approaching and with it, the 2nd Annual All-Alumni Reunion. We will once again this year be hositng the event at TRAX inside of PZAZZ/FunCity. While final details of the event will be discussed at the September board meeting, we hope you will make plans to attend.

Homecoming will be held Friday, October 1 with the alumni event immediately following the game.

The Alumni Association is also making plans to once again be involved in an event at the homecoming game and we hope to see you there as well to help cheer on our fellow Falcons.

August Alumni Association Board Meeting Minutes

August 12, 2010

Present
Amy Eggar
Andy Crowner
Julie Daniels
Monica Hagen

Discussed the August get together at the Drake Restaurant. The event had a small number of attendees but association did receive 1 new membership application and 3 annual renewals during the event.

Amy has talked with Mike Shinn who has been in conact with Kyle Jackson. Kyle thinks we may need to do Articles of Incorporation for the 501C3 scholarship funds as well as a seperate goverment board.

We need to email class reps and ask them to email or contact their classmates to let them know about the upcoming homecoming event at TRAX on October 1st.

We received $1057 from the raffel sales from the city of West Burlington from the 4th of July celebration.

Next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 9th. Amy will email a reminder to everyone. Final details of the October Homecoming event to be discussed.

WBHS Alumni Mixer with TNT!

Join us at 7pm on August 6th at the Drake Restaurant in Burlington, Iowa for the first monthly WBHS Alumni Association all-alumni mixer!

The classic/modern rock band TNT will be performing live on the Drake’s patio. Admission is free and the show begins at 7pm.

If you are interested in eating, please make dinner reservations by calling The Drake Restaurant at 319-754-1036.

Please stop by the WBHS Alumni Association table for a quick check-in, so we know who is supporting alumni events or if you wish to join the association.

The 12th Annual Marvin L. Crooks Memorial Golf Tournament

The 12th Annual Marvin L. Crooks Memorial Golf Tournament will be held August 13th with a 4-person best shot, shotgun starting at 1pm at Flint Hills Golf Course. This event is hosted by the West Burlington Athletic Boost Club.

Direct questions to: Jeff Housel (319) 601-6932

or Tammy Starkey-Hopkins (319) 457-1290

Proceeds support: The Marvin L. Crooks Memorial Scholarship Fund & The West Burlington Athletic Booster Club

2010 Business Registration

Sponsorship opportunities are still available including flag sponsors and more!

2010 Sponsorship Opportunities

WBHS Retirement Reception - Pictures

WBHS 2010 Alumni Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to Micah Cullison and Ariel Bloomberg on being awarded the 2010 WBHS Alumni Scholarship!

June Alumni Board Meeting – Minutes

June 12, 2010
Present
Amy Eggar
Mary Storch
Tara Thuleen
Andy Crowner
Julie Daniels
Loretta Poindexter
Lisa Graham
Angie Osborn
Susan Haight

The reception for the retirees turned out to be a very well attended event. Approximately 200 people showed up and we spent around $100 on refreshments. Andy needs about 4-5 pictures of the event to put on the website.

Amy sent out Certificate of Membership to the 2 seniors whose parents responded to the membership to the Alumni Association.

Andy needs names of the West Burlington Alumni Scholarship winners, again to put on the website. Mary will provide.

Andy is going to talk to the Drake about doing an Alumni get together on August 6th out on the patio. He also will talk to Vern Reed about having his band provide music.

Mike is still working on getting the 501(3)(c) finalized so we can start collecting for scholarship funds that will be tax deductible. We are probably 3months to a year out on that realistically.

Julie Daniels nominated Lisa Graham for the the Scholarship chairperson, Andy Crowner seconded.

Mary Storch nominated Monica Hagen to be the Fund-raising chairperson, upon her approval. Julie Daniels seconded. Angie Osborn will be helping Monica with the fund-raising duties and Susan Vandenberg also agreed to help as needed. All funds raised thru future events will go into the “same pot” and distributed as seen by the officers. Funds that are already in the scholarship fund, will not be distributed for anything but scholarships.

Discussion was held about the 4th of July event. The WBAA will be selling raffle tickets starting at 6am to 10am at the fire station. The rest of the day we will be set up in front of city hall. Monica and Angie will be asking for volunteers for 2 hour shifts. Andy will email Angie the list of volunteers from last year and try to recruit them again. We will be doing the cupcake walk for the kids in front of the post office. Angie stated that she has been trying to contact Wal-Mart or Hy-Vee for a donation of 300 cupcakes. It was decided that, again, we will be asking for volunteers to bake cupcakes for the walk. Andy will send out the request in the newsletter with Angie and Monicas email address. We concluded that we could find 12-13 people to make 2 dozen cupcakes.

Mike Shinn will be sending out Dues Statements to those Alumni who only paid the annual fee. The annual fee expires June 30th yearly. We are hoping to get more lifetime memberships as we increase activities for members.

We are going to invite class reps to our next meeting on July 8th. The reps will be from the classes of 1965 and so forth in five year increments. Mary will be calling Karen Vogelgesang(65) Randy Messmaker (70) Brad McCloskey(00). Amy will call Randy Fry(80) Sherry Cluney(85) Kelly Fry(90). Andy will call Jon Munford (05) and julie will call Shelia Logan Stewart (75). We are hoping to get all the class reps to concentrate on finding their classmate, getting email and regular addresses so we can recruit them into the Alumni Association.

We are also looking for someone to head our Historical Committee. Mary suggested Sherry Kaestner. Andy will be putting a request out in the next email.

Loretta Poindexter suggested putting together a quilt to be raffled at next years homecoming game. She will get more specifics and get back with us.

Meeting Adjourned. Next meeting will be Thursday July 8th at 5:30.

WBHS – Retirement Reception

A retirement reception honoring four staff members of the West Burlington Independent School District is scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 6th in the Family Life Center of West Burlington Christian Church. The public is invited.

The reception will recognize three high school teachers Joan Carruthers, family and consumer science, Ann Schach, science, and George Vedder, art, as well as the district’s superintendent, James Sleister.

The event is being sponsored by the West Burlington High School Alumni Association. The Association was established last year to promote the spirit of alumni unity and camaraderie through communications and reunions, to locate alumni, and to provide a resource to W.B.H.S. through donation of alumni time, talent and treasure. In addition, the Association fundraises to provide annual scholarships to graduating WBHS High School Seniors.

For more information, visit the Association’s website, www.wbhsalumni.org, or contact Amy Eggar, Association President, at (319) 850-0055.

April Alumni Association Board Meeting Minutes

Present:
Amy Eggar
Mary Storch
Andy Crowner
Mike Shinn
Julie Daniels

Cindee Reed was present to discuss the teacher Retirement Reception. We decided to hold the reception for Jim Sleister, George Vedder, Joan Carruthers, and Ann Schach on Sunday June 6th, 2010 from 2-4 pm at the West Burlington Christian Church. It will be an informal event and the Alumni Association will provide cake, punch and coffee. We will also set up a table for membership applications and upcoming events that the Alumni Association will be holding in the near future. Cindee said that they would be running a video loop of the teachers through the years that would play throughout the afternoon. They will also be going around with a video camera asking people to talk about some of their memories of the teachers being honored. Mary motioned to keep the event at the church on Sunday and Julie seconded. Mary will book the church, Cindee will confirm with the teachers and we will let Tara Thuleen figure out a budget and get back to us at the next meeting for approval. It was also decided to give the church a donation from the association for the use of their facilities.

Mike Shinn went over the treasurers report that we all got a copy of. Really nothing to report except that we need to watch how much money we make on fundraising. Our gross fundraising receipts can not be over 35% of total receipts to keep our tax exempt status. When we get the 501(c)(7) status, this will not be an issue. Mary paid for the post office box ($44) for the annual fee, and Mike will reimburse her.

We still have no interest in a fundraising chairperson. Mary will talk to Corey Ellerbrock to see if he has any interest, at least to get us through the 4th of July celebration. Andy will again put a message on Facebook and the Alumni site to raise awareness.

We stuffed envelopes for the graduating seniors parents, asking them to give the gift of membership to the Alumni Association for their graduate. At our next meeting we were asked by Amy to come up with ideas to draw more members. We also talked about doing some monthly events soon. The first of course, will be the teachers retirement reception in June, next will be the 4th of July celebration. Andy will be contacting The Drake and talking with Vern Reed and his band about playing at The Drake on the outside patio in August. September may include an Alumni night at a Burlington Bee’s game and then October will be our Homecoming event.

Next scheduled meeting is Thursday May 13th at 5:30.

Amy motioned to adjour, Julie seconded.

We Need Your Help!

The WBHS Alumni Association is looking for a Fundraising Chairperson. This person would be responsible for building a fundraising committee, organizing fundraising events at direction from the associaton officers and reporting back to the officers.

An immediate need is to organize staffing for the West Burlington 4th of July raffle.

If you are interested in this position please email ajcrowner@gmail.com.