Orientation Recap

Orientation Recap by Paige
Wednesday, October 4, 2006

. 57 incoming day students (class of 2008).
. 49 of them joined ASM. This seems a bit low, but maybe we can still
get them onboard.
. I'll be making a CD-and maybe a binder too-to pass on to next year's
Director of Orientation. If you have any input, please let me know.
. Our most successful events (in terms of sign-ups anyway) were the
Pub Crawl and the 1st year/2nd year party, with 45 and 53 attendees
respectively.

Some notes on events:
The ropes course in Grass Valley (On Course, Inc.) was very nice, and more
affordable than CSUS, but inconveniently 1.5 hours away.
If WBC or ASM runs the wine tasting trip again next year, they should
seriously consider going to the foothills east of Sacramento instead of to
Napa. Wineries are becoming more expensive and we had trouble finding
anyone who wanted to cut us a deal.

Money Stuff
The online registration system Geoff set up (through PayPal) worked really
well. Only one issue, and that's been resolved now.
The one drawback to using PayPal is that when we want to withdraw the funds,
we'll have to pay a small fee-between 2 and 3%. We tried to build this into
the registration fees. I haven't withdrawn the funds yet; I am trying to
get all payments finalized before doing that. When I do take the funds out,
they will likely come in my name, but I will just sign the check over to ASM
and Nick can deposit it right away.

I have actuals for all expenses except the Napa bus (waiting for an
invoice/statement from them still). Until I find out otherwise, I am
assuming the Napa bus will cost us about $600 (which is what we'd planned).
ASM also agreed to finance (sponsor) the ASM Welcome lunch directly from the
ASM budget-this cost us $676.36. I did not include this in my
"try-to-break-even" calculations.

Based on those numbers (not counting the ASM lunch expense), and factoring
in the PayPal fees:
ASM should come out approximately $34 ahead. Woohoo!!

Thanks for all your help!