End of Semester

Good Morning, Members and Friends:

I'm pleased to say that we've wrapped for the semester on a fairly high note. We've finished Ceres, Celestial Legend and are looking forward to a new series in the Fall. We haven't scheduled our first meeting in August/September yet, but watch this space for info on that and on our Club rush activities.

To my great satisfaction, we've also been granted our first budget allocation from the Student Government Association. Thanks to an impassioned defense of our funds request by president Jose Luis De La Cruz, in the end we were awarded 2x the amount we originally asked for!!! Great job, sir!

We have some big plans for the summer and for next year: We're in talks with the people who are organizing San Japan to have an event on campus over the summer sometime soon, we're planning to join a group that will give us greater resources for our meetings , and we're planning to start on the road to self-sufficiency by having some fundraisers next fall.

All in all, as the advisor, I'm pretty happy with the way things are going right now. Our only issue is attendance; we need those of you who come regularly to the meetings to bring your friends and to help recruit new members!

If you have suggestions on how to make things better, please let myself of Jose Luis know.

Have a great summer!

-Darrell