1. CEO Update - in T's absence, Gary Howe gave quick update. So many things going well - new chapters with the resulting increase in membership.

2. Endowment Update - fundraising going well. Restricted money, specifically the Holaday Training facility and the Center for Character and Leadership Development, are really going well.

The participation rate is up to 20% now; goal is over thirty.

3. Board Update/By-Laws Update - The next revision of the By-Laws will be distributed to the Class Advisory Senate soon. After that review, the CAS will solicit input from the class and get the "vote" message out. We need 25% of the membership to vote or all is for naught.

4. Election of Officers - the CAS Officers were unanimously re-elected. Yours truly remains the VP. We added one more position to the Executive Committee bring the total to seven. Mike Mosier, '73, is now a member of the Ex Comm.

5. General Gould's visit, Jan. 12 (tentatively) - the CAS members were asked to use the discussion thread on the CAS FaceBook page to input suggested talking points.

6. Meeting Schedule: Should we change? - We are in the process of moving our meetings to the second Monday of the designated month vice Thursdays.

7. IT Update/facebook, etc. - the CAS has done some research to develop ideas how we might improve our interaction and TWO WAY communications with our classmates. The Class of '68 is fortunate in that we have a class website. In addition, we are looking at webcams to improving the CAS meetings and we have established a CAS facebook group as a learning exercise. We will see where his leads.

8. Moving Forward, 2011 - 2013: First Look. - the CAS prepares a document to be provided to the AOG Board. We are working the rough draft internally now. We will share with you for comments at the appropriate point in the process.

9. Adjourned

1. CAS November 17, 2010 Meeting Notes
3. AOG Budget FY10
5. 2008 Donor Report
7. CAS Moving Forward 2009-2011
9. USAFA Endowment Briefing - 8Jul2009
11. AOG-USAFA Endowment MOU (Final Draft)
13. USAFA Endowment - Letter April 2011

Support Your Association of Graduates

Remember our dues or life membership fee does not come close to meeting the operating costs of our AOG.

Consider becoming a Sabre Society donor (Class of '68 currently has 41) and/or increasing your annual donation. If you are not an AOG member become one (29% of our Class are not members). Let's increase the numbers. To see how we stack up to the Classes of 1959 through 1979, click here.

Your Board of Directors are: Terry Storm, '61, Chairman; Vic Andrews, '66; Steve Beasley, '93; Brian Binn, '72; Rip Blaisdell, '62; Roger Carleton, '67; Jack Fry, ’67; Bob Munson, '73; Bebe O'Neil, '83; Kathleen Rock, '98; Mark Rosenow, '03; Frank Schmuck, '88; and Bruce Wright, '73. More information about the Board of Directors is available on the AOG web site, see link above. You can contact the board by clicking here. Click here to read the minutes from the Board Meetings and click here for the next meetings agendas.

Our AOG Board selected William L. Thompson, Class of ’73, to be CEO. Known as “T” to classmates and friends, is an entrepreneur who has owned successful small businesses, and he has served on boards of directors of a number of diverse organizations, ranging from national charities to local banks. He also served for 17 years – under three different governors from both political parties -- as an appointed commissioner on the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission. Along the way he also became a lawyer. The remarkable thing is that he accomplished all of that while flying for Delta Airlines, eventually becoming a captain who gave Delta crews check flights. One of his former bosses, the chief pilot at Delta, described him this way: a very sharp guy; street-smart; well-connected; a tough negotiator.