Message from the Board

I can't believe it is almost May! Where has 2011 gone? The Board of Directors of the Cornell Club of Minnesota has been hard at work discussing ideas and putting together more events for the last half of 2011. We hope the upcoming events will continue to generate interest from the local alumni and new friendships and networks will be made.

Board member Carlos Gutierrez reintroduced a great tradition this past week by inviting over 150 Cornell Alumni who have moved to the Twin Cities in the last three years. We will be having another one of the dinners in August/September time frame. It is a great way for Cornell alums who may not have a large network of friends or contacts in the area to instantly connect with a large, diverse group. During the dinner at Malone's in Maple Grove we learned that 3M has its own Cornell Alumni network with over 20 active members. Please let us know if your company has its own Cornell Alumni network.

We have planned events for the upcoming months including:

• Slope Day Celebration next Thursday (day before the actual Slope Day)
• St. Paul Walking Art Tour, June 11 
• Guthrie Theater backstage tour and play on Saturday, June 25th.
  God of Carnage is what we will be seeing. We have a block of tickets reserved.
• New Student Send off on Sunday, July 31st    
• Coffee tasting/Starbucks 101 (details TBD)
• St. Paul Saints game/tailgate (summer)
• Habitat for Humanity landscaping event in September
• Zinck's Night in October
• Monthly book club continues to meet every month.

We need your help!!

We are looking for the following:

• Volunteers to help plan and chair events. We can have more events but are limited with our volunteer pool. If you have an idea for an event and can help us please contact one of us on the board.
• Young alumni (Class of 2000 or younger) chair to plan events for our most recent alums
• Social Media Chair: We have all the tools set up ready to go but we need someone to stay on top of it every week or couple of weeks.

We will help and assist our volunteers with communicating to alums. Please sign up.

We will be sending out more consistent messages from now on.

Thank you for your continued support and every member of the board looks forward to meeting you at the next event.

Go Big Red!
Nick Halverson
President - Cornell Club of Minnesota
nick@solpropertygroup.com
612.819.8154