Class of ’78 to select agents
By MARLA RAGLAND
Seniors interested in being
elected class agent for the class of
78 may attend a workshop for class
agents on Feb. 18.
Class agents are the formal repre
sentatives of the class to the Associa
tion of Former Students and are
charged with keeping class mem
bers informed about association
acitivies and Texas A&M Univer
sity.
Interested seniors should register
with Olive DeLucia, class program
director of the association, before
Feb. 17. Her office is located in the
Forsyth Center of the MSC. The
workshop will be held in conjunc
tion with the spring meeting of the
association council.
DeLucia said the association is
encouraging seniors to run in pairs
and serve as co-class agents because
of the size of the graduating class.
Candidates are required to have a
petition signed by 78 of their
classmates.
The class agents will be elected
for a five-year term at the senior in
duction banquet which is the formal
induction into the Association of
Former Students. The banquets for
May graduates will be held April 17
and 18.
The class agent has five primary
responsibilities. He is responsible
for representing the class on the As
sociation of Former Students Coun
cil. The council holds meetings
twice a year in College Station.
Phil Callahan has served as a class
agent for the class of‘69 almost nine
years. He is a research associate
with the Texas Real Estate Research
Center.
“Another responsibility is to write
class letters,’ Callahan said. “The
purpose of these letters is to inform
class members about what’s going
on at Texas A&M and what their
classmates are doing. Each class
agent writes two or three letters a
year. The association provides the
stationery, mailing list, printing and
postage. All we really have to do is
write it.”
In conjunction with this duty,
class members are encouraged to
write to their class agent and inform
him about their changes of address,
job promotions, marriages and
births. The class agent then informs
the association.
One of the most time-consuming
activities is the formal class reunion
which each class holds every five
years. The agent must tell all class
members when and where the re
union will be held and then handle
the arrangements.
Class agents also help coordinate
numerous informal reunions. Class
members may have reunions in
parking lots after football games in
Houston or Dallas.
Another duty of a class agent is to
encourage class members to con
tribute to the annual fund, which
the association raises from alumni
contributions to support academic
and other programs of the univer
sity.
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