Happenings!
FEBRUARY UPDATE (Game Watch Change)
Hi Boilers and thanks to those that attended our first Happy Hour of the year at ER Bradley’s. It was a perfect night on the waterfront of WPB and it was great to see you guys again. A special welcome to Scott and Marker for coming out to their first Happy Hour with our group.
For our next event, we have been invited to join the Hoosiers at their Game Watch location, Duffy's in Boynton Beach for the Purdue vs Indiana Basketball Game on Sunday, March 4th with a 6pm tip-off. Next will be the March 14th Happy Hour at Old Keylime House in Lantana. And then we are up to one of our biggest events of the year, the Spring Cruise on Saturday, March 24th, leaving at 3pm from Ft. Lauderdale.
The Club needs your participation in the Spring Cruise to make this a great success as in past years and the first step is to sign up now. If you have any questions about this or any other event, please contact me directly. The website has more information about our events and you can sign up for the Spring Cruise there.
I look forward to seeing all of you at the Basketball Game Watch.
Boiler Up!
Dan Floyd
(561)704-3315
Welcome to the Boilers On The Beach!!
We are all looking forward to an exciting 2012 with plenty of events to get us all involved with our club.
This website is currently being improved and updated each day, so keep coming back to see the latest news and happenings with the Boilers On The Beach.
Our next event will be a Baseketball Game Watch for Purdue vs Indiana on March 4th at Duffy's in Boynton Beach, hosted by the Hoosiers.
On March 24th, we will have our Annual Spring Cruise in Ft. Lauderdale on the Intracoastal and New River. This event is one of our most popular of the year, but has limited space, so please sign up as soon as you see the details published on this site. Below is a list of known events for 2012, so please mark your calendar and we look forward to seeing you there!
2012 EVENTS
March 4th 6pm - Basketball game watch - Purdue vs Indiana Duffy's, Boynton Beach
We will be joining the Indiana Alumni at their game watch location
March 14th 6pm - Happy Hour Old Keylime House, Lantana
March 24th 3pm - Spring Cruise (details on our banner)
March 31st 11-4pm - Big 10 Picnic (details on our banner)
Topeekeegee Yungee Park
April 11th 6pm - Happy Hour Two George's, Boynton Beach
April 18th - Miami Marlins (Illinois sponsored)
April 19th - Miami Heat – (Illinois sponsored)
April 25th 6:30pm – Board Meeting, Boynton Beach (all welcome)
May 9th 6pm – Happy Hour JB’s On The Beach, Deerfield Beach
May 19th 12pm - Pub Crawl, Ft Lauderdale (details to follow)
June 13th 6pm - Happy Hour Aruba's, Ft. Lauderdale
July 21st – Boilers On The Beach Picnic (details to follow)
Sept – Nov Football Game Watch’s, Bru’s Room, Coconut Creek
Sept 22nd - Boilers on the Rooftop (hopeful, but not confirmed at this time)
Oct 6th - Boilers on the Beach ON CAMPUS, W. Lafayette
Purdue vs Michigan FB game and Tailgate - ON CAMPUS
Dolphin Tailgate (date tbd)
Dec 8th - Holiday Party (subject to change)
Boilermaker News
For new members, the club thanks Ted Priebe who went to great lengths re-establishing the club here in 2004. Ted is now the National Purdue Alumni President. GO TED!
A 1968 Purdue graduate, Ted is currently a senior consultant and member of the senior management team of ABG - Indianapolis, a consulting firm serving clients in the food and agriculture sector. Ted’s leadership credentials precede him, having served as president of both our club and the Central Iowa Club.
From some simple football game viewing events with a handful of alumni five years ago, the club has now grown to over a hundred members and enjoyed over 24 organized events from popular game watch parties to happy hour and tailgate gatherings at Marlin baseball and Dolphin football games. Our joint activities with the rest of the Big Ten schools have grown. The Boilers On The Beach have become major participants in the annual Big Ten Picnic and bi-monthly Big Ten happy hours. The Purdue Club has sponsored the tailgate activities for the Big Ten at both the Dolphins and Marlins ballgames.
SPRING EVENT BIG SUCCESS
One of the best highlights of past seasons has been the Annual Spring Event, hosted by Ted Preibe on his beautiful Fort Lauderdale roof garden.
PART PROGRAM THRIVES
The Boilers On The Beach have been major participants in the local P.A.R.T (Purdue Alumni Recruiting for Tomorrow) program. Club volunteers visited eight to ten high school college fairs in the fall promoting Purdue. Our thanks to Arthur Dubin who led the local program for many years and to Chuck Tiedje who has assumed the reins.
"BOILER JIM" BROOKS NAMED REGIONAL DIRECTOR
We are proud to have our very own Jim Brooks elected as Purdue Alumni Regional Director for the State of Florida. Following his Navy career, Jim is now the civilian Public Affairs Officer at Naval Air Station Key West. You will recognize him from his “Boiler Jim” blog on our football blasts and web site! Having been involved with several alumni clubs around the country he is a natural for the job! Congratulations Jim!
CLUB RECOGNITION PROGRAM
The Boilers On The Beach has received recognition from the Purdue Alumni Association (PAA) as a "gold standard" club. Factoring in alumni participation through events and fundraising, this gold standard provides your club fund-sharing advantages for more events as well as a scholarship for a local student attending Purdue University. We can proudly say that we continue to achieve this status each year.
ALUMNI BIKE TEAM
Many thanks to all who supported the Purdue Alumni of South Florida Bike team so generously each season during the for the MS 150 Bike Ride benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It was a great ride with nearly three thousand riders participating and raising around $2,000,000 for MS. Our team raised over $1,000 in the name of Purdue Alumni.
SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Congratulations to our 2011 scholarship recipients Cassie McCormick and David North. Cassie and David were selected on their academic performance and extracurricular activities. The Purdue Club of South Florida was proud to award Cassie and David with a $500 scholarship and wish them continued success as they pursue their Freshman year at Purdue.
Our club’s scholarship is to be given to incoming Purdue freshmen from Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties. Applicants will be judged based on their academic success, personal merits and financial need. If you know an incoming freshman who would like to be considered for a scholarship in the future, please contact Stephanie Eberline at sdenotaris@hotmail.com. The recipient will be notified in the spring and invited to upcoming events.
CLUB SURVEY
If you took our survey last winter, and thanks to you who did, you probably wonder what we learned. We had nearly 100 respondents. Here is a brief summary or the results:
67% of respondents were male.
40% were between the ages of 25 & 45.
60% were over 45.
60% were married.
40% single.
PAA members 78.7%
Local Club members 62.9%
County:
Palm Beach 39.9%
Broward 31.5%
Dade 14.6%
Martin 9.0%
Monroe 3.4%
St. Lucie 2.2%
Events you would like to see (in order of preference)
1. Annual Event (Roof Party, bfunch, dinner).
2. Sports Bar Game Watch.
3. Regular Club Happy Hours.
4. Game Watch (private location).
5. Wine Tastings.
6. Formal events w/speaker.
7. Golf Outings & Tailgates (tie).
Emails and Website:
Participants felt both were useful tools (though 9% felt emails were excessive. (Sorry!).
Activity Fees:
Most felt activity fees should be a requirement for membership (only 3% felt they should not).
50.8% felt that fees are about right while 46% felt that they could be higher.
PayPal is apparently not a negative issue.
COMMUNICATIONS
Many of our communications are accomplished with e-mail. If you are not receiving occasional e-mail communications from the Purdue Alumni on campus it may be because they do not have a current e-mail address for you. Update your information today at www.purduealum.org/ and click on the Quick Link on the right.
More importantly, If you would like to receive our local club communications please send an e-mail to drfloiyd@bellsouth.net and you will begin receiving our communications.
WEB SITE
Our Web site, www.boilersonthebeach.com, is active and will be updated regularly. Bookmark it and check it often as the “events” page is the quickest and best way to stay up to date with our activities. Don’t miss “Boiler Jim’s” football blog during the season. The “join us” page and the “events” page are provided with a PayPal button to simplify payment of dues and event charges. Please use it. It is free and greatly simplifies administrative work.
We also have a Facebook Group, "Boilers On The Beach," so please friend us and share your thoughs with us.
NOW HERE IS THE “KICKER”! – MEMBERSHIP
Our club membership has grown in recent years, but there are still faces in the crowd who are not members. Naturally our cry is always “come one, come all” to all of our events. We would, however, like to have you all as club members.
The Purdue Club of South Florida depends on its membership to show support through an annual activity fee. Thanks to our success in the Purdue Alumni Club Recognition program we have the luxury of revenue sharing funds. Consequently our family activity fee for 2012 will remain a mere ten dollars per household. The activity fee covers much of the administrative expense of the club (website, surveys, mailings) as well as offset the costs of membership events like the annual "Spring Cruise" and "Party on the Rooftop" and tailgate gatherings. To pay your activity fee online, go to: http://www.boilersonthebeach.com/joinusPayPal.html or the boilersonthebeach.com “Join the Club” button.
What are the benefits of club membership? Event discounts, better communication and knowing that you are supporting a great local club that proudly carries the Purdue banner across South Florida. (And you don’t have to ask the Big Ten Alumni here about that!)
Please join us if you have not already done so! Your support is very important to the success of our club. Join now and enjoy membership through December 2012!
Remarkably, many Purdue Club of South Florida members are not members of the Purdue Alumni Association. All alumni are encouraged to continue showing their pride and support by becoming a member of the Purdue Alumni Association. Annual dues are only $50 annually and a lifetime membership is $1000. Membership in PAA is more than just a yearly subscription to the association's Purdue Alumnus magazine and a pocket calendar. Membership in PAA provides many insurance and credit card options as well as travel benefits.
For more information on PAA membership and the value of membership, go to: https://www.purduealum. org/Membership/MembershipHome/tabid/4802/Default.aspx
A NOTE FROM DICK - Past President………..( I HOPE YOU GOT THIS FAR!)
While 2012 offers more opportunities for alumni to gather and have fun, the club must organize itself more fully to meet new standards required by PAA. In the coming months, the club will be asked to formalize a club constitution and elect officers with established term lengths. As bureaucratic as this might sound, PAA streamlines the process with some good expert advice and support. A rotation of club officers also keeps the club revitalized and distributes "the workload". Too often, clubs begin to backslide because leadership doesn't change. These changes will make for a stronger PAA and of course, better Boilers on the Beach organization. If I have not personally been in touch with you about the future of the club and you are interested in more organizational involvement please email me at dickstevens@comcast.net or call 954.817.1449.
I encourage everyone to rededicate themselves to ensuring 2012 is a more fun year for Purdue Alumni in South Florida. Whether the club is a source for networking, meeting new friends and renewing old acquaintances, or simple black- and-gold camaraderie, this club is YOURS. Together we can continue the growth that began five years ago.
Once again I want to say a major thanks to all of you who have so loyally supported and helped me with our many events. You are the ones who have made our club grow!
If you have not done so, please join us soon at one of our events. Please join our club! It is a wonderful group of folks sharing our Purdue heritage. Boiler Up! Hail Purdue! See you there!
