The Alumni & Friends of
Yorktown High School, Inc. is an all-volunteer charitable
organization whose purpose
is to develop alumni
support for Yorktown High School, with fellow alumni, faculty
and current students through reunions, scholarships, career
development, and other special activities. All such purposes shall at all times be exclusively for charitable, educational, and
scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of
distributions to organizations
that qualify as exempt
organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code, or the corresponding
section of any future federal tax code.
Although we work closely with
Yorktown and it's staff, and the Yorktown High School PTA -
and make every effort to coordinate our activities - all three
organizations are independent of the other. Accordingly,
none are responsible for the acts or omissions of another.
We are a 100% volunteer
organization of YHS alumni, parents of current and/or former
students, and other friends of the school.
Unlike the Alumni Association
of most colleges and universities, we are currently 100%
dependent on our modest dues to fund the regulatory compliance
costs, postage, web-site expenses etc.
One of our corporate policies
is that no one associated with the management of our
organization receives any salary, commissions, remuneration of
any kind (other than reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses
expended on behalf of the corporation) or special
consideration of any kind by virtue of their involvement with
the corporation.
We are planning a number of
school-related activities, including the following the current
status of which is indicated in (brackets):
- a web site - (Started I/01)
- quarterly newsletter -
(Since I/01)
- a manual of "lessons
learned" for local
reunions - (on going)
- organizing and posting of
scholarship opportunities - (Accepted by the School Board in
October 2001)
- preservation of Yorktown
High School's history - (Started, but Volunteers needed)
- maintenance of academic,
athletic, and community recognition and awards
earned by alumni, current students, and faculty - (started)
-
private, non-commercial, free electronic mailing lists,
organized by class (all created; about 75% operational)
-
Centralized Market Place for Booster Club Fund Raising
Activities