Apr. 6, MSVU Toronto Alum Meeting ReCap

Attendance:

1. Stefanie Pavlin
2. Arlene Steger
3. Shirley Forde
4. Brenda Joergensen
5. Lilly Chan
6. Marie Ann Skomorowski
7. Michael Cayley
8. Jean McNeil
9. Terri Malcolm
10. Fatima De Rosa

President Shirley Ford opened with a prayer and welcomed us all to the meeting.

Shirley collected $200.00 for our Christmas Charity and she put in a personal contribution from her own funds to top up the donation. Thanks to Shirley for your great generosity to this special fund for relief for those in the Phillipines who are in need of the basics of food and housing after the floods of 2007.

Michael sent emails and automated phone calls with voice mail to almost 700 Alumnae asking them to get in touch. The effort got several more alum reconnected and a week after the calls went out, we still had responses trickling in.

Jake York is the first Alumnae from the Mount to be gives the Rhodes Scholar. Jake is off to Oxford University to continue with Science Research. This is the first Rhodes Scholar in the history of the Mount. Jake was recently congratulated in the Nova Scotia Legislature. You can read the Hansard notes here.

The Student Union of the Mount has pledged $275,000.00 to the Capital Campaign.

This meeting was our annual Bring, Bid and Buy. Brenda was the auctioneer and we realized $134.00 from the sales of a variety of interesting things.

We are planning to collaborate with the alumni associations of other Halifax based school to organize a wine tasting event in October.

Next Meeting: Sunday, June 8, 2008 at the home of Michael. The meeting will be at 3:00 PM and dinner following meeting at The Pantheon on the Danforth

Notes prepared by: Brenda Joergensen

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