Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia, and our accounts will transition from Wachovia to Wells Fargo Oct 14-16 2011. While most things stay the same, SAANC is likely to be assessed $12/month bank fees since the minimum balance is slightly above what we generally maintain. SAANC Treasurer will be talking to Wells Fargo after the transition to see if anything can be done about this.
Income:
Expenses:
The manual for SAANC Treasury operations is coming together nicely. It is in the xibod wiki here:
http://xibod.org/index.php?title=Grad_Treasury_Manual
If you are a past Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer, or other sibling with advices to give, please feel free to make changes, add stuff, etc. I can take it :) And it will be a better manual for your input.
And for anyone interested in the nitty-gritty-down-and-dirty of how SAANC deals with its finances, it makes good readins.
–LeAnn Sherman Xi 1996
Mentoring has been a big buzzword lately – from business mentoring, to youth mentoring, and so on. One reads a great deal about “intentional interactions” and “mentee development”. Part of the reason that it’s popping up so much is that it works – although, interestingly enough, it appears to work better when conducted on an informal basis. (See Taking a Hard Look at Formal Mentoring). The St Anthony Association of North Carolina Mentoring Program is designed to be a structured but informal way for Hall members to connect to folks who are not only working in (or retired from) a field they might be interested in but who they might not regularly encounter in their day-to-day.
The pilot group for the SAANC mentoring program will be about 5 or 6 pairs of brothers and sisters. If you are interested in being a part of this group – either now or in the future – please sign up here!
Folks, there hasn’t been much time to write on the blog since Swingout. There’s an issue of Tony’s Tattler to be produced; mentor program information to upload; and I find myself sadly behind on various volunteer duties for the Hall.
Fear not, however: I am also working on a potential SAANC benefit members-only mailing that will ROCK your HISTORICAL SOCKS off. This will also be lots of fun to produce – and read! If you are signed up as a SAANC member anytime before August 1, 2010, you will get this as an exclusive member benefit (though non-members will be welcome to purchase individual issues).
At any rate. One of the fun benefits of having done a lot of poking around in various archives is coming across writings like this: 1962 Funny Minutes. I would like to have it noted that the Annex bathroom floor – the Annex which was only built and completed a year prior – is already being referred to as a garbage pit.
Swingout 2010 Banquet Attendees at the Carolina Alumni Club
Much, much fun was had by the 75+ attendees of Swingout 2010. If you weren’t able to make it – we missed you! – and you can peruse a small selection of photos at the Swingout 2010 photo gallery.
The biggest change this year was the SAANC member meeting being inserted into a “regular” meeting. Despite some initial hiccups, and some difficulty hearing, I think it went quite well. SAANC president Mike Glover requested feedback from those who were in attendance, and if you want to drop him a line you can do so from the comment form.
The next Swingout is slated for April 8-10, 2011 so mark your calendars now!
The St. Anthony Association of North Carolina will have a semi-formal meet-up/cocktail mixer at the Tutto Mondo night club (next to the Pewter Rose Bistro). We’ll be gathering between 5 and 7 PM.
This is a casual affair intended to provide the opportunity for members of St. Anthony Hall in the greater Charlotte area to socialize and renew their bonds with old friends and new.
All chapters are encouraged to come – and guests are welcome, too.
As the BoD works to streamline and professionalize our operations as much as possible, we’ve taken up the task of actually considering and approving a budget for 2010, the first time I’ve seen this done in my time at the Hall. There are both highly summarized and highly detailed versions of the proposed budget up on the Board of Directors wiki, but in the meantime here are the highlights:
In other, less flashy news, I am spending my last few weeks in office weeding out the old Treasury records. There are a number of very old records which I need to archive if interesting or destroy if simply outdated in order to stay in line with commonly accepted document handling procedures. The rest will be organized into a file that contains anything from the previous seven years which we have on hand, plus information on general corporate financial identity (EIN, etc.) so that there are paper backups of much of that data.
If anyone is just desperate to spend time sitting by a shredder with me, please let me know. ;)
Many, many snaps to everyone who could make it out to Doug’s house on the 26th of December for the casual SAANC get-together. At final count there were some 35 people who dropped by, spanning three decades of Hall life. Pictures are up and available for your perusal. For those who couldn’t make it, you were missed.
Next SAANC event: January 17th, St Anthony’s Day. Contact Brian Antczak at events@stanthonync.org for more information.
The St Anthony Association of North Carolina cordially invites you to a casual post-holiday gathering on Saturday, December 26th from 5-9 PM at the home of Doug Baldwin X’94 in Durham, NC. Some hors d’oeuvres and beverages provided – if you have something to share, please bring it!
We’ll have a photobooth too, so feel free to get creative with your attire.