Friday, October 12, 2007

Alumni Game 2007

Here is the flyer for the Alumni game this year. If you are going you can go ahead and start paying by paypaling the $75 to mizzoulaxalumni@gmail.com or you can bring your check to the game. For any of you who have never been to an alumni game you should know that it is the highlight of the year and the premier event for the Alumni Association.

The handout can be viewed here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfxhp9cv_1hbs6g7


Also, Mizzou is playing MO Baptist tonight at 6pm at the Sport Port near Maryland hights so let's try to make a precense.

Milt
Secretary

Saturday, August 11, 2007

FIRST OFFICIAL VOTE IS "YES"

The paid alumni members had our first official vote on Friday August 3, 2007.

The vote was to decide whether or not the Alumni should help the team with their first official request. The request that the team made was to ask if the Alumni Association would volunteer to cover the cost of flying their top coaching candidate into Columbia for a face to face interview and tour of the campus and town.

The result of the vote was an overwhelming YES. The Alumni Association is proud to have the funds available to help the team, and want to continue in our membership, funding, and ultimately support for the current players.

There have been several generous donations from Alumni members that have allowed us to do this, along with the many members who have paid their dues. Remember, any donations will be tax deductible, and will go to a good cause.

Milt
Class of 2000
Secretary/Treasurer

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Show-Me-State Games Lacrosse Tournament

Gentlemen:
The Show-Me-State Games Lacrosse Tournament is taking place on August11th-12th in Columbia, MO. We will be representing once again as the Thundercats.

https://www.smsg.org/sports/sports_info.asp?Area=LA

I know most of you will be down, but there are others that might not be able to join us this time around. So please reply to myself or Pete Stirling within the next week to let us know if you are game. Once again, I will be trying to set-up plans to stay at the Regency downtown so the the sooner I know how many people the better.

http://regencydowntown.com/

Thanks,
Michael Brauss
mbrauss@markandy.com

Pete Stirling
Pete.stirling@verizonbusiness.com

Monday, May 28, 2007

New Coach Needed for Mizzou Lacrosse Team

Here is a letter from the leadership of the current team. For all of those who have an interest in the Mizzou Lacrosse program please do what you can to spread this word so they have excellent applicants for this position. Here is the letter:

"The University of Missouri Men's Lacrosse Club is now accepting applications for the position of head coach. The program is looking for a knowledgeable coach with strong communication skills to be responsible for planning and implementation of daily practices, conditioning, game preparation and management, and recruiting. Preference will be given to candidates demonstrating the ability to manage a highly competitive and successful team. Four years college playing experience and one to two years of coaching experience is preferred. This is a part-time paid position but requires serious commitment throughout the entire year.

All members of the team are fully committed to the success of the program and have an eagerness to become a consistent top-caliber team in the MCLA. We are looking for a talented coach that shares our drive and determination. Check out our web site to learn more about the program: http://students.missouri.edu/~mulax/

Please email any questions to Andy Mackley, Team President, at armckf@mizzou.edu

Applicants should also send a resume to Andy at:

Rec Center/MCSF
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
65211"

Monday, May 7, 2007

Seeking Parkway west graduates/alumni

Note was emailed to me from Parkway West alumni team:

"Hello there,
I am Drew Roper's (current player) mom. I am on the board of Parkway West Lax. We are having our first Parkway West Alumni Lax game on June 2. I was looking for all alumni from West that played for mizzou so I could inform them of this event. Is it possible for you to post this on your alumni site?? If Westalumni areinterested in getting more info, they could email me atKathr2002@aol.com.Could you let me know??
Thanks, Kathy Roper"

Milt

Monday, April 16, 2007

Letter from the President

This was sent out from Keith Templin to the Alumni email network. If you are an Alumni member and want to get involved in these early stages of our development please send an email to mizzoulaxalumni@gmail.com.

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"Now is the time to act. Dues are set for $25.00 annually. Pay your dues and you get to vote on what we do. No money is EVER spent with the exception of office supplies for whoever the poor shmuck is that does all the work. One membership is one vote. Simple majority is rule with a min. of 55% of the paid membership voting.

We are run as follows:

The President is a figure head and is the main go to guy for the public(public is as broad or small as is required). This person stays in contact with the team leadership, coaching staff, and faculty advisor. He would go to some of the team meetings to learn what is going on. The President would give the Alumni Association news and updates from the current team.

A VP that does less than the president. He would fill in for the president as needed.He will automatically be the president the year after serving as VP.

A Seceratary keeps role, watches the gmail account, sends updates from the president, and watches the money. The guy that has to do all the work. He would keep the members informed of the financial status of the team.

A Funraising Chair. All we need is somebody to bring ideas to the group and field incoming ideas from the alumni. Present it to the alumni for decisions.

Anyone can submit an idea or bill to be voted on. Items that will require voting are spending money, deciding on a fundraiser, electing officers, or changing the way the organization is run. All ideas will be presented on the 1st of each month and votes collected for 14 days.

That is it. Its simple.

The acting officers are President: Keith, VP: Schuh, Secretary: Milt, Fundraiser: No one so please volunteer. We will vote on all positions as soon as we reach 20 members.

After the elections we will start to work on upcoming activities, member benefits, fundraising, etc.

Please send your $25 with Credit Card or paypal to our paypal address which is mizzoulaxalumni@gmail.com .

Keith Templin"
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Between the lines is the email word for word. In the very near future this organization will be fully legitimate and organized as it should. Once that is done we will be looking at our goals and mission as a support organization.
Milt

We need more pictures!!!

There are two reasons that I am looking for more pictures right now, and I need two types of pictures.

1. I need fun pictures showing play in games, comaraderie, smiles, etc. These are for dressing up the web site and making silly merchandise to selll.

2. I need more logos that we can put on clothes to sell. You can see some of the official Mizzou Lacrosse logos, but I need them to be tweaked so they say "Alumni" somewhere on them. They look very nice and I think we will sell a lot since it is a truly usable (non embarassing) article of clothing.

Please get some practise using your graphic art skills, we would like these to look professional. Please email what you have to mizzoulaxalumni@gmail.com
Thanks,
Milt

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

More updates to web page and store

We are now selling advertising links on our webpage. They are $30 per year for 2 lines of text or a small picture. Also, Milt has added a bunch of pictures from Hedrick for the online store. Please buy a T-shirt or Calendar!

You should have all just gotten an email from me tonight with additional info on it. If you didn't get that email, or are not on our email list please send me a note at mizzoulaxalumni@gmail.com

Friday, February 23, 2007

New Web site!!

Hi everyone, Milt here. This is our new web site. With the exception of the low registration fees for the name (www.mizzoulaxalumni.org) it is free and should get us by for a bit. Our web address is www.mizzoulaxalumni.org and I also have www.mizzoulaxalumni.com .

If anyone wants to plan a happy hour, other activity, or make an announcement please send an email to mizzoulaxalumni@gmail.com and we will get it posted. The calendar is on the right side under the great pic of Eddie.

The "DONATE" button does work. We have a paypal account all set up to take your credit card or paypal money.

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