WHEN: Saturday, March 27th.
1:00pm at the Midlothian location and 3:00pm at the Glen Allen location.

WHERE: Romp n’ Roll
Romp N’ Roll – Midlothian
11541 Busy Street
Richmond, VA 23236
and
Romp N’ Roll – Glen Allen
9677 West Broad Street
Glen Allen, VA 23060

WHAT: The Richmond Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association would like to invite our alumni and their families out to Romp N’ Roll for a FREE, fun-filled afternoon! The Midlothian location will start at 1:00pm and the Glen Allen location will start at 3:00pm; the event at each location will last for 1.5 hours. Each location has tons of fun things for children from slides, to jungle gyms, to a moon bounce!

All children who attend will receive a complimentary Identification Card, complete with photograph and fingerprints courtesy of New York Life!

Each location is limited to 30 children and 30 adults at a time so to guarantee your child’s admittance please e-mail familyevents@richmondhokies.org or call (804)741-1156, ext. 533 and leave a voicemail message with your number of attendees, children’s ages, and location of your choosing. In the e-mail or voicemail message, please also include your name and graduation year from Virginia Tech.

You are also welcome to show up the day of the event, but please be aware that those families that RSVP’d will have first priority to the facility.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Antwain or Jackie at familyevents@richmondhokies.org or call (804)741-1156, ext. 533.

Our “Hokies Helping Hokies” business & career networking group is growing every month! Thank you to all who attended in 2009! Our next session will be Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at the Virginia Tech Richmond Center, 2810 N. Parham Road, Room 333 on the 3rd floor. Networking begins at 7:15 A.M., and the meeting will be from 7:45 A.M. to 9:00 A.M.

If you would like to promote your business at our Hokies Helping Hokies meeting but cannot attend, we are looking for door prizes. If you have a product or service you would like to promote consider donating a door prize for our new monthly drawings.

Mike Lavery of Wells Fargo Advisors is sponsoring our meeting this month. As part of Wells Fargo & Company, Wells Fargo Advisors connects you to some of the industry’s finest financial services professionals. His Financial Advisors draw on a talented force of market analysts, financial planning and investment specialists, and portfolio managers to provide you with the advice and guidance that can help you reach your goals.

This is a business and career networking group for Richmond area Virginia Tech alumni who are interested in engaging other Hokies for business and employment opportunities. There is a $5.00 charge to attend. Bring your business cards, business literature, lists of job openings, and résumés! If you are planning on attending, please register by e-mailing Rick Curry at networking@richmondhokies.org or calling (804)741-1156, ext. 524. The meeting attire is business casual.

During this year’s Food Fight the Hokies and ‘Hoos collectively raised $10,335 and collected 9,020 cans of food. This equates to 63,811 meals for the hungry.

Congratulations to James River High School for winning the schools competition. They beat out 10 other area schools by donating the equivalent of 4,000 meals!

Thanks to all of our partners, sponsors, local schools, alumni, fans and friends for making this year’s Food Fight such a tremendous success!

www.hokiesvshoos.com

Email foodfight@richmondhokies.org for any questions about this year’s event or to learn how you can participate next year!

If you are interested in being on the planning committee for the 2010 Central Virginia Wine Festival, you are invited and encouraged to attend this meeting.

For further information about participating on the planning committee, please e-mail winefestival@richmondhokies.org or call (804)741-1156 or (888)RIC-HOKIE (888-742-4654), ext. 528.

Would you like to sponsor this or any of our future events? E-mail Jeff McMahan or Tracy Jones, or call them at (804)741-1156 or (888)RIC-HOKIE (888-742-4654), ext. 516.

We will meet at the Virginia Tech Richmond Center located at 2810 N. Parham Road, Suite 300 (3rd floor) in Room 303.

All Richmond area alumni are invited and encouraged to attend our open quarterly alumni meetings as they are announced on this page, through e-mail alerts, or by calling (888)RIC-HOKI and press option 3. We meet at the Virginia Tech Richmond Center located at 2810 N. Parham Road, Suite 300 on the 3rd floor — JUST FOLLOW THE SIGNS TO OUR MEETING ROOM. These meetings are always held at this location unless otherwise noted. Please call (804)741-1156 or (888)RIC-HOKIE (888-742-4654), or e-mail info@richmondhokies.org for directions. Your presence and involvement matters, so we hope to see you there! REMEMBER: UT PROSIM!

The event is held annually during the spring semester. On their one big Saturday (April 17, 2010) volunteers will head out into the community and complete hundreds of projects. They provide all of the tools, supplies and the entire workforce required for each project, free of charge. The 2009 Big Event saw over 5,700 students complete over 740 community service projects throughout Blacksburg, Christiansburg and the New River Valley. The Big Event has been in existence at Virginia Tech since 2002 and has grown every year since coming to Tech’s campus. This year organizers are expecting around 7,000 students to complete over 1,000 service projects throughout the community.

In addition to expanding their own event, they have begun to focus on expanding The Big Event nationally. Organizers have created The Big Event Association, a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization with the sole purpose to expand, promote and fundraise for The Big Event across the country. They hope that this organization will eventually serve as a unifying organization for universities across the country and encourage them to come together to better The Big Event and to expand it to other areas as well as provide a benefit to their donors and sponsors.

As can be seen, The Big Event at Virginia Tech is a great project. They are expecting The 2010 Big Event to be the best Tech has ever seen. In order to allow this project to meet its potential, organizers are partnering with local government, businesses, and other organizations to create a network that will improve The Big Event. Whether you are a local business, resident or organization The Big Event is looking for ways to partner with you to improve this event and to better the impact it has on the community.

The Big Event is looking for any sort of help, whether it is through sponsorships, donations, ideas or project requests, they would appreciate any contributions. Please feel free to contact them for further information.

CLICK HERE FOR THE BIG EVENT SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

The Big Event Executive Committee
The Big Event at Virginia Tech
www.vtbigevent.org
125 N. Main St. #500-425
Blacksburg, VA 24060
(248)565-6559

If you are a Hokie alumnus living in the Richmond area and want to be an alumni association volunteer, help is needed with these local alumni committees:

• Community Service
• Public Relations
• Event Volunteers

Just send an e-mail to volunteer@richmondhokies.org if you’re interested.

We also need fellow Hokies to volunteer with the events we host throughout the year. We also want your input and ideas for new and current events and programs.

All Richmond area Virginia Tech alumni are encouraged to volunteer with at least 1 event per year.

Please e-mail volunteer@richmondhokies.org or call (804)741-1156 or (888)RIC-HOKIE (888-742-4654) to get involved. Your presence and involvement matters…and remember: Ut Prosim!!!