Governing Board Resource Guide 2008-2009 ThankThank YouYou To our Association Leadership, Since 1853, the Mizzou Alumni Association has carried the torch of alumni support for the University of Missouri. From our fi rst president, Gen. Odon Guitar, until today we have been blessed with extraordinary volunteer leadership. Thanks in large part to that leadership, the Association has been a proud and prominent resource for the University and its alumni for 155 years. This resource guide is the product of our commitment to communicate effi ciently and effectively with our volunteer leaders. We are hopeful the enclosed information is a useful tool for you as you serve on our Governing Board. It is critical that you know and share the story of how the Association proudly serves the best interests and traditions of Missouri’s fl agship university. We are proud to serve a worldwide network of 250,000 Mizzou alumni. Your volunteer leadership represents a portion of our diverse, vibrant and loyal membership base. While Mizzou has many cherished traditions, the tradition of alumni support is one that we foster by our actions and commitment to the Asso- ciation and the University. Thank you for your selfl ess service to MU and the Association. With your involvement and engage- ment, I am confi dent we will reach our vision of becoming the preeminent resource for the University of Missouri. Our staff and I look forward to working with you in 2008 - 2009. Go Mizzou! Todd A. McCubbin, M Ed ‘95 Executive Director Mizzou Alumni Association Table of Contents Table Table of Contents SECTION 1: OUR ORGANIZATION SECTION 4: OPERATING BUDGET • Alumni Association History • Fy09 Budget • MAA Vision, Mission & Guideposts • Form 990 • MAA Long Range Plan • Constitution • Bylaws • MAA Executive Directors • MAA Past Presidents SECTION 2: GOVERNANCE SECTION 5: REFERENCE • Offi cer Job Descriptions • 2008-09 Year-At-A-Glance Calendar • Governing Board Member Expectations • 2008-09 Tourin’ Tigers Travel Program • Confl ict of Interest Policy • CASE & ASAP Awards • 2008-09 Nominated Board Members • Governing Board Travel Supplement Form • 2008-09 Appointed Board Members • Standing Committees & Committee Guidelines • Ad Hoc Committees SECTION 3: PROGRAMS, SERVICES & STAFF SECTION 6: UM SYSTEM • Membership Benefits, Programs & Services • MU - Chancellor • Graduates & Members • Tuition Rates 2008-2009 • Association Staff • UM - President • Organizational Chart • UM - Board of Curators Our Organization Our Organization Alumni Association History MAA Vision, Mission & Guideposts MAA Long Range Plan Constitution Bylaws MAA Executive Directors MAA Past Presidents On the occasion of the MU Alumni Association’s sesquicentennial (that’s 150 years, for those who don’t speak Latin), the association asked a researcher to dig up its history. The story is one of loyal alumni and citizens acting on behalf of Mizzou. (Perhaps what says it best is the legend of how alumni and locals saw to it that the Columns became Mizzou’s foremost campus icon.) As part of the sesquicentennial celebration, the Association adopted a new brand - The Mizzou Alumni Association. Keep your hands off these Columns he Mizzou Alumni Association was founded in 1853, but perhaps the best story that encapsulates its meaning to MU comes from a tenuous time in the University’s history. It’s the story of loyal alumni Tand citizens acting on behalf of Mizzou and how the Alumni Association saw to it that the Columns became Mizzou’s foremost campus icon. The inferno that consumed Academic Hall in 1892 somehow spared the six limestone Columns. To many alumni and Columbians at the time, they quickly became an enduring symbol of all they held dear about the University. But to others, including the University’s Board of Curators, the Columns looked out of scale with the new University buildings they hoped to construct around them. They resolved that the Columns would have to come down. Few people now know – perhaps because it weakens the legend – that the board originally intended to leave the Columns in place or reposition them on campus. But the board changed its mind, and some alumni and locals didn’t like it. Among them was Jerry Dorsey, a leading Columbia citizen of that period. According to a newspaper report, Dorsey watched with interest as workers carried off the chard remnants of Academic Hall. He was appalled to learn one day that Gideon Rothwell, president of the board, had ordered a pair of mule teams hitched to one of the Columns, with instructions to tear it down. “Mr. Dorsey sought Mr. Rothwell and protested against the destruction of the Columns, who insisted that they were a menace and dangerous,” according to the newspaper account. “Mr. Dorsey declared that the Columns could not be pulled down by a herd of elephants, whereupon Mr. Rothwell announced that they were coming down if he had to dynamite them. The argument became heated, Mr. Rothwell struck at Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Dorsey upheld his Kentucky traditions and returned the blow. Spectators separated the combatants and the controversy continued in a battle of words.” At this point, Dorsey may have charged off to the courthouse to get a writ of injunction against tear- ing down the Columns. But writ or no writ, alumni got wind of the board’s plot and added their voices of protest. In fact, the president of the Mizzou Alumni Association (MAA) Gardiner Lathrop, made a persuasive speech to the curators, according to a story that engineering Professor Luther “Daddy” Defoe (association president in 1903-04) used to tell. A 1924 account goes like this: “Following a brilliant plea before the board, during which Lathrop pleaded with tears in his eyes that the Columns be preserved intact, a plan was presented that the whole of the elevated campus (now Francis Quadrangle) be cut away, except for a small tract around the Columns, which should be terraced into mounds, to rise above the level of the campus.” This time around, the board resolved that its previous resolution was a bad idea. After Lathrop’s speech, Mr. Rothwell stated “Let the Columns stand. Let them stand for a thousand years.” In many ways, imagining Mizzou without its beloved Columns is like trying to imagine a strong university without alumni support. It is only fi tting that more than 100 years later, the MAA Long Range Planning Committee penned a mission statement that begins with “The Mizzou Alumni Association proudly supports the best interests and traditions of Missouri’s fl agship university and its alumni worldwide.” Mizzou and MAA: Through the Years... 1839 entomologist, helps save the French wine industry Boone County wins its bid to locate the University in from an aphid by grafting French vines onto resistant Columbia. The Geyer Act establishes the University, Missouri rootstock. the fi rst publicly supported higher education institu- tion west of the Mississippi River. 1877 College of Engineering was founded. 1841 Classes begin. 1883 Alumni vote to raise $10,000 to endow the associa- College of Arts and Science established. tion. 1843 1885 The University’s fi rst commencement was held. The Original tombstone of Thomas Jefferson from Robert L. Todd and Robert B. Todd become the Monticello is dedicated on Francis Quadrangle. University’s fi rst alumni. 1888 1849 Mizzou Discovery First course in civil engineering offered. Sanborn Field is founded the oldest continuously used research plot west of the Mississippi River (and 1853 second oldest in the U.S.) Sanborn Field also was the Alumni Society (Association) forms with Odon site of landmark studies in crop rotation that are the Guitar as fi rst president. Robert L. Todd gives fi rst basis for today’s sustainable agriculture. alumni oration at commencement. 1889 1862 At the alumni association’s annual meeting, alumni The Civil War forced the University to close for resolve to create an Alumni Annual containing the most of the year. annual oration and information on all alumni. (fore- runner to MIZZOU Magazine). 1868 Normal School, now the College of Education, 1890 established. Mizzou fi elds its fi rst football team. “Tigers” is chosen as the university mascot. 1870 Federal Morrill Act makes MU a land-grant univer- St. Louis chapter formed. sity. 1891 College of Agriculture founded. Kansas City alumni chapter formed. Mary Gillett becomes fi rst woman graduate. 1893 Mizzou Discovery 1872 MU entomoligists determined that the cattle tick Law department (school) established. causes the deadly Texas fever disease, and scientists at the MU Agricultural Experiment Station discover School of Medicine established. how to eradicate it. Anna Ware becomes fi rst female to graduate with a 1895 four-year bachelor’s degree. Jesse Hall is dedicated. 1873 1900 Mizzou Discovery Department of Household Economics, now the Col- Charles V. Riley, MU lecturer and the fi rst state lege of Human Environmental Sciences, established. 1904 1909 First nursing class graduates. In 1920, the Depart- New York City chapter forms. ment of Nursing is established within the School of Medicine. and it becomes the autonomous School of 1910 Nursing in 1975. MU Extension division founded. 1905 1911 Alumni Association publishes The Missouri Alumni Athletic Director Chester Brewer to return home Quarterly magazine and offers a subscription of and pack Rollins Field for the annual football game $1.50. against Kansas. Mizzou “Homecoming” is born. The game ends in a 3-3 tie. 1906 New Missouri county chapters: Adair, Audrain, 1912 Barton, Bates, Boone, Buchanan, Butler, Cape Gi- Alumni Association publishes The Missouri Alumnus rardeau, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Cole, Cooper, magazine. A subscription came along with the $2 Dade, Greene, Grundy, Jackson, Jasper, Lafayette, annual membership dues. Lawrence, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Madison, Mon- roe, Nodaway, Pettis, Pike, Putnam, Randolph, Ray, Washington, D. C. chapter forms.