Hi Everyone,

I had previously emailed that today the Ateneo Alumni Association had
scheduled a cocktail session for the class representatives and pretty much
anyone interested in learning more about the AAA activities. Considering how
busy everyone was, I managed to go on behalf of our batch in order to see
what everything was about and to ensure we were represented. This may get a
little lengthy.

First, there was a brief reminder of the recent history of the AAA and the
fact that this is the first time in many years that the AAA has become an
independent body - this group is not to be confused with the Office for
University Development and Alumni Relations that generates the Blue Post
every week and pushes for most of our ADMU-centric fund raisers. One of the
key initiatives for the year is to clearly define the identity of the AAA as
separate form the OUDAR and drive more alumni-focused activities.

They presented the results of an initial survey conducted late last year -
some of you may have been called for this. The survey of alumni showed that
while younger batches were the least informed, they were also those most
interested in learning more about alumni activities and events and most
importantly to gain access to the alumni directory, if there is one.

There were presentations by the various committees about their respective
initiatives. The key commmittees that presented today where the following:

   - Social Involvement - the AAA is currently working on the GK Project,
   an outreach program to create 194 homes for a community in Payatas. Batches
   have been pledging either financial support or have been actually making an
   activity of creating a house called a "batch build"
   - Membership Development - this committee is working on many
   initiatives such as increasing involvement amongst the class
   representatives, possibly creating chapter groups across the country and
   even around the world and to enhance the member benefits available to AAA
   card holders such as discounts for retail stores and insurance policies.
   - Communications - this committee is focused on a mid-term project,
   which is the launching of the official AAA website. Current the AAA has a
   site within the ADMU domain (http://www.admu.edu.ph/aaa). The goal of
   the independent site is to better establish the AAA identity and provide
   access to the alumni database.

We then broke out into committees that we'd be interested in so naturally I
decided to work with the Communications Committees since this is a key
initiative needed before any of the other projects can really gain steam.
I'll be working with the committee to develop the site and eventually
provide or source content so in case you're interested in helping out here
or in any of the other committees, please let me know so I can put you in
touch with the right people.

Overall, I really need help in networking to the rest of the batch in order
to establish a more robust directory. Since the AAA and the OUDAR are
separate entities, we do not have access to their records. For example, the
Blue Post that I forward to the batch eGroup every week is from the OUDAR -
if you receive this directly, this only means you are on the OUDAR records
and not necessarily the AAA records. I'm attaching a PDF version of the
batch directory as it stands so if you know of other people that we can add
to our database, please put them in touch with me or have them sign up for
the eGroup by emailing ahs-batch-2001-subscribe@googlegroups.com or by
visiting http://groups.google.com/group/ahs-batch-2001/ for Google users.

Thanks for your time and looking forward to your ideas, thoughts or comments
on the current AAA activities. Feel free to visit the current AAA website
for more information.

--
[rOckY]

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