OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland

Our club is partnering with Coats For Kids for the Fall Football Banquet as a community service project. There are a few different ways for The Greater Cleveland Buckeyes to help out:

1.     You can bring a new or like new child’s size coat to the Football Banquet on November 24th and place it in the donation container which will be at Window’s;

2.     You can bring a check to the banquet and place it in the donation box which will be at the registration table. Please make out your check to Coats For Kids-Cleveland and write OSU Alumni on the memo line; or

3.     You can mail your check to:       Coats For Kids-Cleveland

P.O. Box 74767

Cleveland, OH 44194

Please join OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland  on  Thursday June 11, 2009 from 7pm-9pm in a sampling of fine wines with a complementary pairing of  appetizers.  Wine tasting will be guided by a Wine Expert from the Cleveland Wine School.  Dave’s Markets will be providing the perfect appetizers to enjoy during the tasting.  Proceeds will benefit our club’s scholarship fund.

A limited number of tickets will be sold, and you must pre-register.  Tickets are $35 per person; dress is casual and guests must be 21 or older to enter event.  Reservation deadline is June 1, 2009.  This event will be held at the Cleveland Wine School at 3355 Richmond Road, Suite 191, Beachwood, Ohio 44122.  Visit their web site at www.clevelandwineschool.com if you’d like to learn more about the wine school.

Click here to download a registration form.  Any questions, please contact Patricia Carney at 440-548-2134 or email greenibucki@gmail.com. 

Your enthusiastic and generous support over the past 50+ years for the OSU Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland’s Football Appreciation Banquet and the scholarship fund it benefits is much appreciated. This event has helped our club send the best and brightest from Northeast Ohio off to help “make Ohio State great.” We’ve made a difference in the lives of many students.

It is with sadness that we announce that the 57th Football Appreciation Banquet, scheduled for November 25, 2008, will be the last. Policy changes at the OSU Alumni Association and the OSU Athletic Department, coupled with the upcoming shift in the football schedule and increasing scrutiny from the NCAA, mean that our major scholarship fundraising event cannot continue in its current format.

The events committee is working hard on developing a new fundraising event where Northeast Ohio Buckeyes can show their pride and spirit and “pay it forward” to the next generation of Buckeyes. In the meantime, we’re asking you to help make this final football banquet and silent auction a rousing success by making your reservations now.

Let’s go out with a big Buckeye bang!

From Duane Smith, our local alumni band coordinator:

We got a last minute request last week for our alumni band to play at a 90th birthday party.

The family of Joe Russo held their birthday celebration at Walton Hills Lake (near Bedford) with about 50 in attendance. My contact came in from California & in her attempts to find a band had a suggestion from another family member in Columbus to have the OSU Alumni Band. TBDBITL in Columbus passed along my name & phone#.

Any way, that’s the short version.

On such short notice, I was still able to assemble a band of six along with our own ‘Brutus.’ In return for our performance, a donation of $400 was made to our Scholarship Fund.

It’s nice to have fans that want to include us in the special events.

The deadline to enter the football ticket raffle is approaching quickly. Remember, the raffle is for the chance to PURCHASE at face value a pair of great seats for a Buckeye home game this fall. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5, and there is no limit on the number of tickets purchased per person, but only one pair of game tickets per person. A drawing will be held on or about August 7 to determine the winners. The first name pulled has their choice of the seven home games. The second name drawn has their choice of the remaining six games, and so on. Winners will be notified by phone. All raffle tickets must be received by August 4.

Download the ticket form here: http://osuclevelandalumni.com/ticketraffle.pdf