Well it’s been a great 16 months! I’ve had a ton of fun as your VPF and I’ve learned a ton! I feel like I have succeeded as your VPF by accomplishing almost all of my goals. I got a new Novelties Sign installed, and the price of leather jackets reduced. We developed an open relationship with Retail Services, and now encourage them to advertise Leather Jacket Day as much as possible in the Engineering faculty. I ran ordering of custom hip flasks and class t-shirts in the spring, and got the Event-A-Tron working again. I’ve organized and hosted the two most successful Novelties Sales that Mary or I can ever remember. In the spring we sold $1800 worth of merchandise in two days, this term we blew that record out of the water by selling $2800 worth of stuff! I want to thank all of my directors for the hard work they put in this term. Thank you Adrianna, Cat, Forough, Karen, Lesley, Rebecca, Tim and Jessica. A special thank you goes out to Amanda for all the extra work she put in, including the pretty Novelties Board she decorated!
We’ve developed a wonderful relationship with Gold Crown Brewery on King Street. They decided to brew POETS Warrior Lager for us again, and it is now being sold in POETS and at all Engineering events licensed by Bar Services. This lager was brewed up until the very early 2000’s and was named after our lovely engineering pub on campus. The doors of POETS also have a mural of the label (which was designed by the Brewmaster’s wife). As of right now, we will be selling the beer for the foreseeable future, and I’m very happy about that!
Even though we still have a week and a bit left of classes, we’re holding EOT this Friday to avoid conflicting with Good Friday. It will be in POETS and the patio will be open to accommodate up to 150 people! Mother Nature thinks that there will be scattered showers that day, I’ll let her know to change her rain plans. We’ll try and put up something to cover parts of the patio if there’s going to be rain. The POETS managers have done a great job this term, they’ve organized Theme Thursdays, decorated POETS for special holidays, pulled off a super successful Super Bowl party, and even had POETS open after EngSoc Meetings for people to unwind and have a beer, or ten. I’ve seen POETS dressed in red, green and even balloons last Friday (unrelated), it’s been a great term for POETS indeed. Thank you Cat, Scott, Mike and Kim, I’ve enjoyed working with you very much!
Novelties has quite a few new items on order since the sale pretty much cleared us out! We have a brand new type of travel mug on order, which has stainless steel liner instead of plastic. We have more and smaller sweatpants on order, Black Sigg Bottles are on the way, and we have hockey jerseys with the EngSoc logo. Mike McCauley has designed a T-Shirt that will be on sale in Novelties this week, come check it out! We also have some sleek new leather folders that will make you look sharp in an interview. I wanted to remind students that Novelties is online at engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/novelties, but we’re still working out the kinks in the ordering and maintenance of the inventory. You can make your orders online, and mail us a cheque. When we get the cheque we’ll mail you your items. Now you can get those items on co-op too!
I want all directors to submit their receipts for reimbursement by EOT Friday. This will give me enough time to sort everything out before lectures end.
Last but not least I want to welcome Marc Tan as your new VPF. I have the utmost confidence in his ability to serve you as VPF. Good luck Marc!
This is Eric signing off! Thanks, it’s been a blast A-Soc!
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