In attendance: Mark Cotter, Fr. Dave Schorr, Tony Fischer, Mike Wallisch,Gary Gayda and myself, your scribe, Angelo Spagnolo
With all of the false promises made by Father Dave Schorr about serving us lobster tails to induce us to coming to past meetings, we finally decided to have a meeting at...you guessed it... Red Lobster in Pleasant Hills. The restaurant closed that night in anticipation of a large crowd only to have the six of us.
With the restaurant closed and the six of us ready to order, the meeting started at 6:30. I won't go into detail as to what individual people ordered, but I will comment that no one in this group of big spenders ordered a lobster, even Tony Fisher! After all the noise they'd made, everyone was ordering the Tuesday night shrimp special! Gary Gayda went as far as to order the all-you-can-eat shrimp and he was seen replenishing his classmate, Mike Wallisch's dish on several occasions when the waitress wasn't looking.
After yukking it up for awhile we finally got down to business at 7:15. During dinner, Treasurer, Gary Gayda had made available our most recent bank report and I can only say that if Wall Street had followed our fiscal policies we'd all be in much better shape than we're in.
Between our checking account and our two CDs, your alumni association is now $22,764 to the good! Our most recent fundraiser, the wildly successful Cardinal Wright Awards Dinner netted a total of $2778. The breakdown was as follows:
Dinner Income: $4,140
Net profit from dinner proceeds: $3.35
Donations: $1,920
Bottom Line Profit: $2,778
These numbers are slightly different from the report that Gary submitted because he did not have the auction figure prior to the meeting. Needless to say, everyone was very pleased with our experience at Monterey Bay. Father McGrath and Father Henry were both reported as having really enjoyed themselves. Father McGrath even said that he'd like to come back again next year to visit 'all of you stoops' (he really didn't say that last part).
The next portion of our meeting centered around a discussion as to making better use of our alumni website and saving on expensive mailings. What was decided is that we are going to do a post card mailing alerting alumni as to important news now being available on the website. We will then publish our newsletter information there thus saving a lot in printing and postage. The next 400 piece postcard mailing will be designed by Gary Gayda. The newsletter will be up on the website later this week.
The next matter of business centered on the annual election of officers. Mike Wallisch attempted to get Gary Gayda elected President when he went to the bathroom. When he came back, we explained that he had been nominated for President. Gary's face became red, but in declining the nomination he went on to explain that he thought the redness may have been an allergic reaction to eating too many shrimp! Mike Wallisch showed no similar reaction, surprisingly.
Anyway, in a fashion similar to the way they do things in the cloakrooms in Washington D.C., Tony Fisher wrested back control of the alumni association Presidency. His cabinet is as follows: Gary Gayda: Elected in a landslide to repeat as Treasurer. Angelo Spagnolo, to once again serve as Secretary, Father Dave Schorr, continuing on as Moderator and former President Mark Cotter serving as Director of Operations and Special Superintendent of our website.
The final piece of business had to do with scheduling our next meeting which is now set for November 11th at 6:00 tentatively at the rectory of Ressurection Parish located at 1 Majka Drive, West Mifflin, PA 15122. Father Schorr is still awaiting the delivery and installation of a new dumbwaiter system in his rectory. As soon as it comes in, we're good to go. If the dumbwaiter installation is delayed, we'll probably go to another restaurant like the Olive Garden or something. Red Lobster said not to come back.
The meeting ended at 7:50 PM.
Angelo Spagnolo, Secretary
Dinner Cost: $3,200
Awards, Cakes, Printing: $839
Net from Photos: $500
Net from Auction: $355