Polity & Friends Reunion 6/20

[JoAnne/Ja Young ten Doesschate]

Hello Everyone! I know a Monday day/night event is more for locals but this is a guys thing and there are plenty of guys on this list and more important - for all of us it's a special event to honor one of our own! We even have some jocks as I recall from the days when football was intramurals and there was a team for every dorm, pit hockey ruled in G & H, and Manginelli ran summer softball. And the dinner is something we can all go to even if we can't (or won't) do the whole day. So while I may think golf is almost as dumb as football, this is a REALLY important event to support for two reasons: One of our own, Larry Roher, is being honored at the dinner that night. He ran the Polity Election Board and was later FSA Director of Ops. When Larry set up the Golf Classic years ago it was meant for scholarships. Now Larry has upped the ante by making it possible for more people to be able to create their own scholarship to fund what they think is important at Stony. We're not all Larry's and Babak's with the big bucks to endow a scholarship. The minimum is $10,000. So Larry came up with an ingenious idea and got the University to allow the $10,000 to be paid over time - call it a scholarship mortgage.  But - here's the other genius aspect of it - you don't have to wait until the scholarship is paid off to own it. As soon as you make your first payment - YOUR scholarship - named after whomever or whatever you want - and for whatever purpose you want (within reason obviously) - will be awarded to a deserving student. (Just remember not to have too high a GPA requirement or most of the current Polity & Friends students will never get it!)  What Larry wants to be able to do is to announce at the dinner those of you who have committed to creating your own scholarship. And the rest of us will be there to cheer for him and you! So here's what to do - for either the scholarship or the day of golf or to join us at dinner:  If you know Larry personally and want to talk to him about it - his cell is 516-428-5776 and his email is La...@myvrm.com.  If you don't know Larry personally, don't be rude and instead call Rick Guarino at 631 632-4873. He's the guy from Advancement you'll end up having to talk to anyway to actually get your scholarship set up. If you want some help figuring out what kind of scholarship would make sense at today's Stony, contact me at 631 831 6062 or jm...@yahoo.com.  Just make sure if you do set up a scholarship it's an Alumni Association Scholarship, not one through Advancement / SB Foundation. Just look at how pitiful this list of scholarships is! Until alumni support the Alumni Association, the Administration will never give it the respect it deserves. And think of how this looks to current students...sad.   http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/alumniawards/awards.shtml If you just want to come to the dinner to celebrate and have a good time, below is the link to register. You can also use the same link to spend the day playing golf. After you register email me and I'll get them to set up Polity & Friends tables. http://alumniandfriends.stonybrook.edu/page.aspx?pid=299&cid=1&ceid=27&cerid=0&cdt=6%2f20%2f2011 Hope to see a lot of you there! Love, Mama SCOOP / JoAnne

[Jbf...@aol.com]

JoAnne;

 

I can't believe you are casting aspersions on the ancient, majestic, venerated, lauded and superlatively magnificent game of golf.  It is... after all.... more than a game.. it is an addiction... and thank god there is a 18 step program..... Are you planning to attend?  

 

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[JoAnne/Ja Young ten Doesschate]

James -  And those aspersions are coming from the daughter of a full blooded Scotsman and I've even vacationed overlooking the green at St. Andrews! I'm going to the dinner and hope you and many others will join me at least for that. Larry got them to agree to this scholarship mortgage program for one year - and the best way to make them continue it beyond that is to show it works - so hopefully someone like you will want a pre-law or poli sci or student leader Fuccio Scholarship too!  Take care, JoAnne  --- On Fri, 5/27/11, Jbf...@aol.com <Jbf...@aol.com> wrote:

[Jbf...@aol.com]

JoAnne

 

I will be playing golf with three invited "pros from dover"and attending the dinner afterward... it will be at least the  fifth year in a row that I have participated in the SB alumni golf outing ...  hope to see you and many ex polity/sab/scoop people there.too...

 

 

James