This past April the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association Board of Directors elected me president of the organization. I accepted this very challenging responsibility for two reasons. First, the CDAA has great potential to become a very active organization that provides major benefits to the current CD staff and to its members. I want to help move us in that direction. Second, the CD provided me with opportunities unmatched at the University, and I want to give back to the CD and to its alumni who made these opportunities possible.

My Cavalier Daily career started in 1990 when I nervously climbed Newcomb Hall's stairs to the fifth floor. My goal was to become a staff photographer so I could get as close to the action at all the sporting events as possible. As many of you experienced, this small objective soon grow exponentially into more responsibility. For me, I became a Photo Associate Editor, then Photo Editor and then in 1992, Business Manager. After graduating with an MIS/Marketing degree in 1994 I moved to Northern Virginia where I currently work at Metron, Inc. I help market and sell a decision support system called TerrAlign to other businesses.

My goals for the CDAA include:

• Holding two first-class social events each year. We got a great start in June when the CDAA hosted a cocktail party during reunion weekend for its alumni and their families. It was a full-catered event with an open bar and plenty of food. I greatly enjoyed talking with everyone who attended!
  
  The second event is going to be a tailgate party before Virginia's homecoming football game on Saturday, October 4. No location has been arranged at this time but invitations will be sent well in advance of the event. The CDAA will provide the food and beverages for all interested CD alumni and the current CD staff. My thanks to Diane DeBerry for volunteering her time as the Events Director. Please RSVP to me via e-mail (hanlin@metsci.com) or phone (703-528-9317) if you are interested in attending. This will help us in planning.

• Providing more support for Lisa Guernsey's already outstanding programming efforts. As shown in these pages, Lisa is already well into planning workshops for next year. I encourage everyone to attend the workshop in Charlottesville on September 20. It will be tremendous!
  
  Currently Lisa is doing most of the planning for these events on her own. I would like to find a few more volunteers to help her with planning and organizing of workshops and related events. Another goal is to compile a complete list of CD alumni who are willing to volunteer their time and knowledge and lead a workshop. This list will help facilitate Lisa's efforts.

• Facilitate networking between CD alumni and between CD alumni and the CD staff. This goal has many parts.
  
  The CDAA must provide a means to easily disseminate information. Matt Lane has create a CDAA web site that can service as the main communication vehicle. It is located at www.cdalumni.org. He will soon add bulletin board capabilities that will allow alumni to post job openings and other messages for the CD staff and CD alumni to see.
  
  Next we need to gather more detailed information about our membership. Update addresses, phone number, e-mail addresses. Find out who has access to the World Wide Web and e-mail to decide if a web page is the best means of communication. Most importantly identify the members who would be willing to field correspondence with CD alumni and staff about their careers, etc.
  
  Implement the updated data in our web site and promote it to the membership and the CD. This web site can be used to find a long lost friend's phone number or to try and find out more about a career path.

• Increase communication with the CD staff. This is primarily my and   Editor-in-Chief Robin Pinnel's responsibility. I will attend at least one CD staff meeting to introduce myself and the CDAA to the CD. Most of the CD staff does not know about the CDAA and the services we provide. My objective is the educate them and to listen to their needs and ideas. Holding events such as the tailgate party will also increase the communication between us.

• Completing the Endowed Scholarship Fund by next April's meeting. Currently with John Herring's generosity and the CDAA match of his $500 donation we are awarding the annual Herring Scholarship to one CD staffer who has a media-related summer internship. With the combined financial efforts of the CD and the CDAA I would like to have $50,000 set aside by April for the scholarship fund. This amount will allow us to expand to three annual scholarship of $1,000 each. I would like to award two in April 1998 and expand to three in April 1999. In order to reach this $50,000 goal the CDAA will hold another fund raiser in the coming months.
  
  Stay tuned and please keep this Endowed Scholarship Fund in mind when making contribution to the University. All donations to the CDAA are counted towards the University's Capital Campaign and are tax deductible. Please send contributions to The Cavalier Daily Alumni Association, P.O. Box 4731, Charlottesville, VA 22905

• Facilitating Matt Branson's effort to document the history of The Cavalier Daily. Obviously this is a huge undertaking and we need to find volunteers to write, interview, and just help Matt manage this project. One goal I have set for Matt is to try and document the history of all the awards that are distributed by the CD. This will give the CD a perspective on why these awards were established and the significance of each.

I look forward to the challenge of completing these goals and I look forward to working with you soon. Please contact me if you would like to volunteer or make a comment: home: 703-528-9317, work: 703-437-2464, e-mail: hanlin@metsci.com.

Steve Hanlin
CDAA President