Letter from Steve Bobinsky

January 2000

Dear New Mexico Tech Alumni:

Thanks for your patience and cooperation as we try to establish new procedures and routines for alumni stewardship. We are anxious to keep in touch with you more frequently than we have in the past. This second issue of Gold Pan, soon after your last issue, is one example of that.

In all new operations, there are always a few bugs. Our attempt to use eGroups.com as a communication tool among alumni did not work out the way we had intended, and we apologize for the inconvenience to some alums. We are pleased to see that there are a number of alums who are actively using eGroups to communicate among themselves. We are currently looking into other platforms to establish communication, so you will hear from us reasonably often. More details will follow in a future Gold Pan.

We appreciate all the alumni who are willing to receive Gold Pan electronically, via email or at our website, www.nmt.edu/mainpage/alumni.html. In order to bring you Gold Pan more frequently, it is important that we economize on printing and postage costs.

We are interested in your feedback, and we are looking for new ways to involve alumni with Tech, with current students, and with prospective students. As one example of this, on January 16, we held "A Night with New Mexico Tech" in Albuquerque to bring together alumni, prospective students, and parents of prospective students. We appreciate the participation of those who turned out.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Stephany Moore, who is moving to a job in the Research and Economic Development Office. During the couple of years she has worked for the Advancement Office, she has been an enormous help in managing databases and statistics, organizing events, and helping establish communication among alumni, and in many other ways. Thank you, Stephany, and good luck in your new job!

Steve Bobinsky
Director of Advancement
sbobinsky@admin.nmt.edu