| Hello Everyone! I am hoping all of you have been able to stay safe and healthy over the past few months. First, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Olivia Audsley, I am the Arthur of the 2021 delegation and the President of Casque & Gauntlet Senior Society. I’m a Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies major from outside Rochester, NY. I hope in the coming years I’m able to meet more of you face to face, but for now an email will have to do! We are so excited to have the reorganization process underway, and to have so many incredible alumni supporting this work. We have made fantastic progress thus far, and are excited to give you all a full report. This process has been made possible by the time, energy, and skills of many students and alumni. I want to thank everyone who has been involved at any level, at any time. All of this work is in the spirit of reinvigorating C&G – building that same sense of community that exists at the House on the Corner across students and alumni around the girdled earth. We want to reconnect with alumni to share what was special then and what’s special now – the people who made up the delegations. At this point, all of our teams have been assembled and begun meeting. Please find detailed updates about each below. As our current delegates head into finals period, we want to wish them luck and update each of you on some of the progress C&G has made this term. In addition to welcoming 20 new delegates and hosting virtual induction, our interim board is thankful to have received the support of a number of alumni volunteers who are actively working in the areas of: communications, finance, alumni engagement, truth & reconciliation, student-alumni relations and governance. These volunteers are helping us build core infrastructure in advance of formal board elections this summer. Specifically, our communications team is bringing you this newsletter and working with alumni-engagement, students and mentoring teams to design and build a new database that will help us manage member communication and engagement preferences. At the same time, our alumni engagement team is coordinating to locate and update missing member data, our student-alumni relations team is working to build a robust mentoring culture and our governance team is researching and meeting with former board members to learn more about what worked well and what could be improved as we move forward. I’d also like to thank many of you that have supported us financially with seed funding; we are holding these funds until our new finance team can determine how best to use them for our organization. As we continue building, we invite you to join these efforts or suggest a project to address a need we may have overlooked. Let us know what interests you! We are committed to making the volunteer experience one that is flexible and responsive to your bandwidth and provides you the chance to fellowship with other C&Gs while we work toward shared goals. In addition to general volunteers, some specific needs we have right now include help from a financial analyst, LinkedIn manager, historian, graphic designers, website designers and artists. If volunteering isn’t something you’re ready to commit to, next term will bring more opportunities to engage in open member forums hosted by these various teams. While we are confident about the direction C&G is headed and we are feeling good about the progress we’ve made thus far, we know that this transition may still feel a bit opaque or confusing to some of you. Accordingly, if you have any questions or concerns, please let us know by responding to this email. I along with all of the student and alumni volunteers are committed to C&G; this is an ongoing process and we appreciate your support and patience, and welcome your comments and advice. Many fields, Olivia ’21, Arthur |