The CDAA sent out its annual direct mail request for donations in December. To date, we have received almost $2,800 in donations.

The generous contributions of Cavalier Daily alumni are used for a variety of projects, including scholarships for current Cavalier Daily staff members to participate in summer internships relating to media and journalism. The CDAA also coordinates workshops for current staff members as well as social activities throughout the year for the CDAA members.

In addition, the CDAA is continuing to solicit donations in support of digitization of the College Topics and Cavalier Daily bound volumes, which encompass 112 years of University history. (See Page 3). Given the deteriorating state of many of the older bound volumes, it is critical that we continue to move forward on this project, and your strong financial support is essential.

Thank you for your continued support of the CDAA and its activities in support of The Cavalier Daily. If you have not made a contribution this year, please feel free to send a check to: Cavalier Daily Alumni Association, P.O. Box 4731 Charlottesville, Va. 22905. Any amount large or small is greatly appreciated.

During the past two years, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association has been actively pursuing contributions to bolster several worthwhile endeavors the CDAA Board of Directors has determined to be priorities for the organization. To date, the efforts have been extremely successful thanks to the generosity and strong commitment of many former Cavalier Daily staffers.

Donations to the scholarship endowment program have exceeded all our expectations. Currently, the scholarship endowment fund totals more than $70,000 and provides important funding for summer internships for several current Cavalier Daily staff members each year. We will continue our push to build the endowment fund into a permanent, stable source of funding to give staffers the valuable experience and connections that result from exciting summer internships.

Our second major initiative, a fund to begin digitization of the rapidly deteriorating Cavalier Daily bound volumes, also has been successful. The digitization fund currently totals more than $10,000 thanks again to generous contributions by Cavalier Daily alumni.

The CDAA is continuing to investigate and evaluate different options and technologies for digitizing the bound volumes. With the yellowing, fading, and even tearing of older volumes, some of which date back more than 100 years, it is imperative that we preserve the bound volumes as soon as possible.

The ultimate goal is to create a searchable, accessible database of every story in every issue of College Topics and The Cavalier Daily since the first issue in 1890. This obviously is a huge undertaking, but imagine what a valuable resource such information would be—a complete weekly and ultimately daily history of the University and the Charlottesville area since 1890!

As always, your contributions to these and other ongoing efforts of the CDAA are greatly appreciated. No donation is too small and no donation is too large—the main thing is that we all give back a little bit to the organization that meant so much to us during our days at U.Va. and thereby ensure the continued success of The Cavalier Daily for another 100 years and beyond.

Please take a minute to make a contribution today. Your tax-deductible donation should be made payable to the "CDAA" and mailed to: David Hallock, P.O. Box 1320, Richmond, Va. 23218. Thank you for your strong support of the CDAA and The Cavalier Daily!

The Cavalier Daily Alumni Association’s fall fund-raising effort was wildly successful with a couple of recent gifts nudging us over a key milestone to a total of $14,010. Donors contributed $8,845, while matching gifts counted for $5,165. Since September of last year, 60 donors responded to the CDAA’s direct mail campaign requesting help in growing the endowment to fund scholarships for student staffers. Those donors who opened their checkbooks to the tune of $100 or more were rewarded with their choice of a CD hat or T-shirt.

In recent years, scholarships subsidizing unpaid or underpaid internship positions or projects have been established to help budding journalists at The Cavalier Daily explore career opportunities and hone their talents. The scholarships will aid the CD in achieving its goal of remaining competitive with university-funded newspapers and large journalism schools. More importantly, the experience the CD staffers gain in their subsidized positions will allow them to remain competitive once they leave the CD for jobs as professional journalists. (See Scholarship Committee Report.) This fund-raiser was one way the CDAA is trying to match the efforts of CD staffers to keep the CD on top.

Although responses to the direct mail campaign are winding down, the drive to fund scholarships continues onward. Tax-deductible gifts are always welcome and should be made payable to the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association and sent to P.O. Box 4731, Charlottesville, Va. 22905.

—Chad Hall
CDAA Treasurer
April 1999

The Fund-raising Committee currently does not have a chairperson. There are, however, several people who are interested in serving as committee members once a chairperson is appointed. If anyone is interested please contact me via e-mail at hanlin@terralign.com or by phone at 703-437-2464 (W) or 703-528-9317 (H).

The Cavalier Daily Alumni Association conducted a direct mail campaign this summer seeking contributions for the CDAA Endowment Fund. This fund now supports two annual $1,000 media-related scholarships for Cavalier Daily staff members. With your generosity, our goal is to expand the total number and amount of our annual scholarship awards.