August Newsletter
Gentlemen:
Greetings from 603 WW Inc - the recently formed Indiana based Not-For-Profit Corporation designed to celebrate the common interests of those Men who have had the privilege of living in the 603 WW building during their College.
We are working to establish a strong and dependable group of 603 WW Alumni to further and expand the 603 experience .We will welcome your membership and participation in this group.
We have formed a Board of Directors which at present is heavily populated by Men from the Classes of 1973-1980. Ralph Dixon is the Chairman and Rob Matthews the President.
Other members:
Mark Stuuan
Chris Baker
Mike Shaver
Jim Evans
Brad Ballentine
Dave Benak
Rick Batchelder
Paul Braun
Mark Noffsinger
Additionally, we have a Finance Committee which includes:
Bill Hill
Dan Koeppel
Bob Betz
and myself.
To finance ourselves, we have established an annual 603 WW dues format with dues at $50.00 --a gift of $100.00 would include Annual Dues and a $50.00 donation to the Foundation. We encourage everyone to join to provide the needed support to establish 603 WW as an effective Alumni group at Wabash. Gifts of greater value are welcomed as well. I estimate we have 30-40 dues paying Members at this time. We need to be build the dues base this year and next. Please sign up today. We would like to have 100-150 members in this beginning phase.
Social Events - such as the very popular Alumni "Squatfest "gathering in 2018 for the Depauw Football game - will be run on a "pay as you go " basis. All events have some cost associated with them.. The ticket costs are strictly pass through to the ticket holder.
We are also in the very early stages of establishing an Endowment Fund for the 603 WW group. Gifts to the Endowment are fully tax deductible. Endowment Assets are invested in low cost Indexed Equity Mutual Funds with an emphasis upon long term growth. There are no plans for, nor is there any anticipation, of any spending of the Endowment. The Finance Committee looks after the Endowment and meets quarterly.
We are using two email addresses:
603ww1@gmail.com
603.ww.inc@gmail.com
Please add these emails to your address book so that 603 email gets to you. We are experiencing a fairly high level of unopened mail. Please do your part to organize your address book. Thank you.
We can accept 603 Dues and other gifts at the following portals:
PayPal:
http://paypal.com
email address:603.ww.inc@gmail.com
Zelle Pay:
http://zellepay.com
email address603.ww.inc@gmail.com
by mail:
Mr Dan Koeppel
1207 Edgehill Road
Jacksonville, IL 62650-2727.
I appreciate your interest in 603 WW.
Lastly, all events surrounding the Monon Bell weekend 2020--have been cancelled. There is some well intentioned 603 WW discussion of alternate events this fall...nothing is yet planned or announced.
I look forward to welcoming you to the 603 group.
Cheers and Good Wishes to each of you,
RSword'76