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Alumni chapter program highlights

Serving more than 200,000 alumni, the Virginia Tech Alumni Association supports more than 120 active alumni chapters throughout the United States and abroad. Chapters sponsor a variety of programs, including socials, academic speaker events, career-networking opportunities, and community service projects. This past year, chapters provided $185,000 in scholarships to students from their regions attending Virginia Tech. The following are but a few examples of the outstanding programming offered to the Hokie Nation.

Hokie Day at the Stock Show and Rodeo > San Antonio Chapter

The San Antonio Chapter gathered for Hokie Day at the Stock Show and Rodeo, the city's largest annual event. Hokies gathered on the fairgrounds for a BBQ dinner, livestock exposition, marketplace, and carnival. The San Antonio rodeo is the second-largest rodeo in the nation. The chapter raised money for their scholarship fund and plans to make the event an annual tradition. Guest Tom Tillar could not attend due to snow.

Business Alliance > Chicago Chapter

The Chicago Chapter's Business Alliance provides opportunities for alumni to gather, hear from a prominent speaker, and learn about a topic important to the business community. Topics have included "An Evening of Fine Wines and Hokies" with Pamplin College of Business Professor Rick Perdue, and "Hokie Speed Networking" to share business and contact information.

Hokies Helping Hokies > Richmond Chapter

Now in its third year, Hokies Helping Hokies is a networking forum that brings together employment-seeking alumni and business representatives in the Richmond area. The chapter hosts monthly meetings at the Richmond Graduate Center over coffee and pastries, with time set aside for participants to share résumé information and their career goals. Business representatives have occasion to advertise their businesses and job openings within their companies.

Wine Tasting and Silent Auction >
Denver Chapter

Annually, the Denver Chapter holds its Wine Tasting and Silent Auction event. A different wine theme is selected each year, ranging from wines around the world to specialty themes such as wines from Italy or Colorado's Western Slope. Donated by chapter alumni, silent auction items raise money for scholarships to benefit incoming freshmen from the Denver area. The chapter awards an average of $5,000 each year in scholarships.

Saratoga Races > New York Capital
District Chapter

Alumni and friends gathered at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for a day of racing. Tom (business administration '63) and Bonner Young, thoroughbred breeders and owners, joined the group to discuss the day's racing. Jack Hutcheson, director of Capital Region alumni programs, obtained paddock passes for participants to see the horses up close.

Feast on the 50 > Central Florida
Chapter

The Central Florida Chapter participated in Feast on the 50, a contest sponsored by Florida Citrus Sports to determine the best local alumni chapter. The event is regularly held in the fall to entice local alumni chapters to tailgate at the Citrus Bowl. Alumni from Big Ten, SEC, ACC, and Big East schools participated.

Columbarium completed on campus

Many campuses have a columbarium where alumni and others from an extended university family may choose to be interred. An attractive columbarium has been constructed on the grounds adjacent to Virginia Tech's Holtzman Alumni Center, on a grassy knoll with a picturesque view of the Duck Pond.

The Hokie Stone structure houses 60 niches that may be purchased for individual or dual interments. Each niche is covered with a maroon granite face, on which names will be engraved and filled with gold lettering. Behind the columbarium, there is a walkway leading to a terrace area. Beyond its current capacity, the area is designed to accommodate expansion, with future walls bordering the terrace. For more information on the Virginia Tech columbarium, contact Josh Burnheimer at 540/231-6285 or ffburnie@vt.edu.

The first interment was held on Veterans Day and honored Brett Blackwell (business administration '63), a member of the corps of cadets and Highty-Tighties who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps following graduation and wished to be buried at his alma mater.

Honor thy alma mater, forever from The Roanoke Times

digital edition

Winter 2010-11

ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION

2010-11
Board of Directors

Curry A. Roberts '80
president

Lance L. Smith '68
president-elect

Matthew M. Winston Jr. '90
vice president

Tom Tillar '69
secretary/treasurer

Kevin W. Leclaire '95
past president

DIRECTORS
William A. Aden '67, '72
Ryan M. Beach '97
Mary Jones Berry '62*
Daniel W. Bird Jr. '60*
Jeanne C. DaDamio '75, '76
Kendley J. Davenport '84
Lisa Carter Ellison '86
Douglas R. Fahl '65
A. Jerome Fowlkes '88
Kathleen Kyger Frazier '04
Harry N. Gustin II '43*
Todd F. Hearp '89
William B. Holtzman '59*
Gene A. James '53*
Hoda Kotb '86
William C. Latham '55*
Mark S. Lawrence '80
W. Park Lemmond '54
R. Easton Loving '89, '91
Aaron McClung '00
Pamela A. McConnell '72
Kylene Barker McNeill '78
Gregory D. Merritt '93
Lisa Glasscock Miller '87
Nicholas J. Moga '76
Jean Skelton Montague '69
Brian C. Montgomery '03
Thomas W. Moss Jr. '50*
James P. O'Connell '97
Jay S. Poole '78
A. Carole Pratt '72
Glenn P. Reynolds '76
Philip S. Thompson '77
G.T. Ward '49, '52*

*Lifetime honorary member

Alumni Association
Board of Directors
BALLOT

The Alumni Association Board of Directors nominating committee has proposed the following nominees for election to three-year terms from 2011 through 2014. Please vote for up to 11 nominees and return the ballot by April 15. Results will be announced at the Alumni Association board meeting in late April.

Go HERE to download and print the ballot for return to the Virginia Tech Alumni Association, Holtzman Alumni Center (0102), Blacksburg, VA 24061.