Dear C Club Member:

In the last C Club newsletter I shared our plans for a survey of current and potential members. Our survey was sent out in late May, and the response has been terrific. I’d like to thank the hundreds of friends, alumni, and parents who took the time to respond.

The purpose of our survey was to gather information that can help us make C Club membership more interesting and appealing as well as a more effective vehicle for supporting student athletes and Colby’s athletic program. I’ll report on the survey results and the C Club’s action plans in the fall newsletter.

Our last newsletter also included a note from Karl Dornish ’56 about the C Club’s new fund-raising initiatives, which were designed to help the Athletic Department cover selected items that go above and beyond its budget. Karl’s subcommittee has received several requests for assistance from Athletic Department staff, and C Club fund-raising volunteers have begun contacting Colby friends to help pay for a few important projects that were not fully funded or were not funded at all in the department’s budget. If a C Club member contacts you to help with a specific project, please respond with a (tax-deductible) donation if you can afford to do so. We’ll include information about C Club fund-raising initiatives in future newsletters.

Please read Arthur Brennan ’68’s article in this newsletter about another C Club initiative, the mentoring program for Colby’s student athletes. Arthur is working with the Athletic Department and Colby coaches to connect student athletes with a growing number of alumni mentors. Mentoring is geared toward helping students make the transition from high school to college and from college to the “real world.”

The C Club plans to honor Ed Burke ’60 posthumously as C Club Person of the Year at its next Colby Night Dinner, October 12, 2007.

As you can see, the C Club is serious about providing new and important means of support for Colby’s athletic program and student athletes. We’re also committed to making membership in the C Club a more appealing experience, and we’ll use our survey to help us identify activities and programs that our alumni and parents will enjoy and participate in.

Thanks for your continued support of Colby athletics, and enjoy the summer!

Sincerely,

Alex Wilson ’73
President, Colby C Club

Spring 2007 Recaps
Mentoring at Colby
C Club Survey Prizewinners