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CONTENTS
Dean's
Welcome
Happy,
Passionate Employees Key to Good Business
M.A.
Wright Investment Fund Wins National Title
Students
Head To Big Apple
Digital
Technology Revolution
Third
Annual Wine Tasting
Southwest
Business Plan Competition
Class
Gift Challenge
Perspectives
on Women in Leadership
Employment
Prospects in
Silicon Valley
Student
Club Updates
ALP
Profiled in Continental Airlines Magazine
Second
Annual All Class Reunion
Schuler's
Mission at Enron
Getting
the Word Out About the Jones School
Patrick
Van Pelt: Paving His Own Path
Diary
of an MBA: A First-Year Student Writes Journal for Business Week
International
Trip: Singapore and Vietnam
Serving
Unique Corporate Educational Needs
Life-long
Learning
Offshore
Technology Conference
Faculty
News
Rice
MBA 2001 Placement Report
Alumni
Association President's Letter
Class
Notes
Alumni
Leadership Challenge
2001-02
Alumni Association Board
Please send
comments to:
Deanna Sheaffer, Editor
Director of Alumni Affairs
Jones School of Management - MS 531 Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892
e-mail:JGSalum@rice.edu
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Class Gift Challenge
– By Maya Houston (MBA ’99), Jones School
Director of Development
This summer marks the beginning of the Jones Graduate School Class
Gift Challenge.
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What
can I do?
Volunteer to be a Class Gift Liaison or a team member!
How
do I volunteer?
Contact Maya Houston,
director of development for the Jones School, or phone 713-348-6145.
Will
this be fun?
Of course!! We will be having kickoff partios this summer
and hope that each of you will be able to attend at least
one of them. The dates are July 18 12-2pm, July 26 and August
7 from 5-7pm at Herring Hall. The dates and more information
are available on the Jones
School website.
Will
it be a lot of work?
We will make the role of CGL as easy as possible by providing
information about the campaign, a list of frequently asked
questions and answers and as much alumni information as possible.
As MBAs are a mobile group, many addresses and emails are
incorrect, so the most difficult part of the job will be tracking
some classmates down. Mostly it will be fun as you can get
back in touch with classmates with whom you have lost touch.
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The challenge is to get all of the classes to make class gifts
to the Jones School in honor of the Next Century Campaign and the
26th graduating class. The class (or classes) with the highest participation
rate will be honored with a dinner in the new building.
This year’s graduating MBA class has led the charge for this
challenge by pledging to raise over $275,000 in the next five years.
This represents pledges made by more than 70% of the 150-member
class. The Class Gift Chairman Michael Wieland felt strongly that
his class should leave its mark and recruited a strong team to help.
The 2001 Class Gift team is determined to have the highest participation
rate and will continue to attempt to reach its goal of 100% commitment.
The EMBA class of 2000 was the first graduating EMBA class and
honored the occasion by presenting the dean with a $250, 000 commitment
to name the EMBA Student Commons in the new building. The 41-member
class achieved this incredible goal with a generous matching funds
gift given by an anonymous donor.
Now the rest of the classes can get involved and place their names
on some aspect of the new program, from a bricks and mortar gift
of a classroom or team study room to an investment in the future
student body with a scholarship set up in the name of the class.
Several classes have already started getting organized, have named
Class Gift Liaisons (“CGL”), and will be contacting their
classmates this summer (1985, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999). The rest
of the classes need CGLs and a team to get started.
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