Happy New Year! I thought I’d set up another “meeting” for local alumni of the University of Chicago (College, Law School, GSB, whatever) at the Old Toad for Thursday, January 29th before the month got away from me. As it has been a popular destination and is easy to find, we’re going to again have it at Rochester’s authentic British Pub, the Old Toad, which is located in Rochester at 277 Alexander Street. There is parking in back and, while for pay, the bar will discount all but $2.00 of it (or at least that has been their practice). Let’s say from 5:00 to ? (I’ll be there from about 4:30 and people can stay or leave as they wish or their schedules demand). Let me know if you’re going to come by Tuesday morning so I can save enough seats to accommodate us.
I would really like to keep these going and get more of you out to meet other local University of Chicago alumni. I know that we seem to only go to pubs with great beer (we did do a coffee shop once), but our regulars have tended to like that type of venue. However, I could use some new ideas for times, days and locations for alternative places to hold these meetups, which are just informal get togethers for local alumni to get to know each other and build the local alumni group. Even If you can’t come, please drop me a line and let me know where and when would work better for you. I’d also like to hear from people on other types events that you’d like to see the group do more often and, always, would like to hear from anyone who has ideas or who’d like to help me work with me in creating some interesting events this year for some of the more than 1,000 alumni in our Western New York region (from the shores of Lake Erie to past Syracuse…).
Greg
Gregory V. Bell
President
University of Club of Western NY
Added January 29th: This event was cancelled due to yesterday’s weather and lack of interest, but I neglected to update this blog entry. If anyone came by through this post only (most were invited by email), I hope more than one did so you had your own meetup. Alas I wasn’t there. I’m going to set up something soon for February.
