Alumni News Archives
Board Meeting – Friends of UW Men’s Crew, Inc.
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 @ 7:00AM
in the Porter Boathouse Conference Room
Attending: Fred Robertson, Dan Chin, Pete Giese and Brad Taylor; absent – Don Tipple. Coach Chris Clark attended by conference phone while traveling to Milwaukee for a Milwaukee River Challenge organizing meeting.
Secretary Taylor called the meeting to order at 7:05 AM. Minutes of the June 6, 2005 were unanimously approved.
COACH’S REPORT: Coach Clark gave a report of the freshman class recruited from SOAR this summer. About 120 rowers came to the last week’s freshman introduction to rowing at UW. Though still early, Coach Clark is generally pleased with the quantity and quality of the freshman turnout, after a determined effort at SOAR to interest registrants in coming out for crew.An estimated 5 eights will be boated with varsity rowers when their practices starts September 13.
Four (4) Badger rowers participated in the Worlds in Gifu, Japan last week.
Stroke Beau Hoopman (’02) and bowman Paul Daniels (’02) won
gold in the men’s eight; Hoopman (3-seat) was 5th in the 4- and stroke
Micah Boyd (’03) and still-eligible coxswain Chase Phillips (’07)
won the bronze in the coxed pair.
After hearing Cal had established a training table for their varsity rowers,
further investigation revealed 24 varsity rowers, all on some level –
partial or full – scholarship, attend the training table during the
winter
and spring semesters. This count excludes however many Cal frosh are on
scholarships. Noting the Pac-10’s motion to make men’s crew
a regulated sport by the NCAA (a vote is expected in June of ’06),
the Board and Coach Clark agreed bringing Wisconsin and the Big Ten behind
this motion was a growing priority. The matter should be brought to the
attention of both Athletic Board Chair Walter Dickey as well as Assistant
Athletic Department John Chadima, who succeeds the departing Cheryl Bailey
with responsibility for men’s rowing.
ADMINSTRATIVE: On August 17, the IRS acknowledged our application for 501(c)(3)
status and should act by year end. Steve White (’89) prepared the
application for Friends – many thanks, Steve.
In an effort to bring in additional revenues to Friends from merchandise,
Dan Chin is working with CafePress to develop rowing items for purchase
via
WiscoRowing.org and its “merchandise” link. Sales of other items
through SewSporty are still being negotiated.
FINANCES:
a. Friends – revenue inflows from activation on January 1, 2005 totaled $48,897.28 through August 31, including $40,000 from an anonymous donor for shell purchases; $10.63 from royalties from Amazon for book sales on WiscoRowing.org; $57.72 as interest income on savings, $80 from hat sales; and supporter donations. Cash balances in Friends Oak Bank checking @ 8/31/05 were $4,164.93 and savings were $36,000, with payables, some invoiced, some not, of an estimated $36,175.
b. Endowments – Jablonic Boat Fund ($91,481 in cash and $31,200 in
outstanding pledges (with some pledges still unsigned)); Murphy Fund (valued
at $28,165, including $3,820 in memorials to Dick Tipple); Vail Scholarship/Recruiting
Fund (valued @ $12,105) and Geweke Fund (estimated value in excess of $150,000).
c. Gifts and expenses – Friends gifted or expended the following:
$225.70 for postage to mail 610+ bequest solicitation letters (Check # 07);
$2,000 to support Badger participation in non-Olympic events at the World’s
in Japan (# 08); $500 fee to the IRS with our tax-exempt status application
(#09) and $20.72 to the USPS for stamps ((#10).
FUTURE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS:
September 10 – Alumni Race Day iss being organized by Mike Stahlman,
Dan Chin and Friends.
October 1 – The memorial for and dedication of a four-oared shell
- at the boathouse - honoring the memory of Steve Salter is being organized
by Bob Rottman and Friends. Some $700 for the food and beverages at the
event has been raised from 24 donors through September 7, 2005.
Fall 2005 – Friends is working on a Chicago cocktail sometime this
fall for Chicago-area UW rowing alumni. The potential dates at this point
are November 1 or 2 and November 8 and 9. Location yet to be determined..
Any UW rowers and supporters in the Chicago area interested in attending
can drop the Secretary an e-mail (bradleyftaylor@hotmail.com ); please provide
a daytime phone number in your e-mail message and we’ll start building
an invitation list. We may need to phone some of you for further contact
information on other UW rowers in the area. If you know of Chicago-area
rowing alums that are not e-mail users, please send us their names.
Spring 2006 – Crew Banquet (day to be determined, but will be earlier than the Midwest Rowing ChampionshipsApril 22, 2006 – Midwest Rowing Championships.In addition to the activities being planned above, alumni are encouraged to suggest other ways in which Friends might build relationships between the alumni and the men’s crew program (contact bradleyftaylor@hotmail.com ).
COACH CLARK’S “WISH LIST” – This item was not discussed during this meeting. Old desires, previously listed, remain.
NEXT MEETING – scheduled for Tuesday, December 6 @ 7:00 AM at the
Porter Boathouse.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:05 AM.
Brad Taylor, Secretary
September 13, 2005