Alumni Relations

Below is an e-mail sent from Tommy O explaining how we can all make an alumni association take flight.

Calling Out All Clubbers - Past and Present,

To all my great friends at PSU, I hope this email finds you well! And for
the newbies to the Club who don't know me, I'm Tommy O. (PSU Club XC '03-'07
and NIRCA's Marketing Director) and I also hope this email finds you well.
Instead of doing things like my job while I'm at work today, I decided to
start a *Penn State Club Cross Country ALUMNI Database*. Which means, well
lots of things:

-I'd like to organize Alumni Reunions in Happy Valley and hey maybe even a
run (though I know some of us don't run all that much anymore) or a Spring
race vs. the current Club
-Get an Alumni team into Spiked Shoe next year
-Support our THON dancers every Feb. or serve as a great means for the
current Club to go canning and visit us wherever we are!
-Have an Alumni THON fundraiser maybe and donate proceeds to the Club
- We should def. have an Alumni Newsletter where we can inform Alumni what's
going on with the current Club and also update them on what all us grads are
doing in and outside of running
-And there's a bunch of other cool things too that I haven't quite thought of
yet but give me time, its only 10:30am (crazy Central Time)

So what do I need from *YOU*?

-For you old old graduates from 2003-2007 (so far) if you are getting this
email, please email me with your current email address and mailing address
(no PSU addresses as they will soon expire)

-For you soon-to-be grads in Dec. getting this email, keep this in mind

-And for you not so close to being graduates...if you still have contact
with anyone who was a member of Club XC through the years who is out there
in the real world, can you please make sure they get this email or tell them
to get in touch with me

Now I don't know how big of an Alumni Group we can get this year but this is
something that can build in the future. And I definitely want to get started
with stuff right away because important things like THON and Nationals are
coming up and there's so much we can do to support our legacy that lives on
with each and every current Club XC member.

SO EMAIL ME BACK AND LETS GET THIS THING GOING. Because *WE ARE...THE BEST
ALUMNI IN THE WORLD*...and we came from the BEST Club Sport at Penn State
University.


Yours In Running,

Tommy Otterbine
PSU '07 (B.S. Science/Microbiology)
*Club XC Pres. 2006*
*Club XC VP 2005*
tommyo@ClubRunning.org