Come along! The

annual New York

trip is the Model

UN’s biggest non-

simulation activi-

ty. We send thirty

students to the

United Nations for

briefings on the

role of the UN in disarmament and peacekeeping, and visit

with country missions, this year including Iran, Turkey and

the United States. There is enough free time for your own

diversions. The group travels by charter bus, leaving Sun-

day 14 October and returning late Tuesday 16 October.

How long you stay is up to you. You can travel and stay

with the group or make your own arrangements. If interest-

ed, contact Alan Rogers at ajrogers@odu.edu by October 5.

NY Trip Schedule Sunday, 14 October

Depart for New York

Afternoon & evening free

Monday, 15 October

Tour of the UN

Briefings by UN Secretariat

NY think tanks

Afternoon & evening free

Tuesday, 16 October

Briefings at:

Iranian Mission

Turkish Mission

U.S. Mission

Free time

Join us in New York

14 - 16 October 2012

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THE U.S. MISSION TO THE U.N.

The charter bus to N.Y.

Running the ODU Model

UN for 2013 is...

Society President Luke Watson is a sen-

ior economics major with a philosophy

minor. A Portsmouth native, he works at

Colley Ave Starbucks. This is his eighth

year in MUN, from high school to pre-

sent.

Robby Townsend is the ODUMUNC

2013 Secretary-General. The NOVA na-

tive is an English major studying to be a

teacher. Aside from MUN, he is a sea-

soned lifeguard, guitar player and avid

sports fan.

Meet your successors, the other current

officers at http://al.odu.edu/mun/about/

directory-officers.shtml

MUN Trip to South Africa, 1997

MUN High School Conference Secretariat, 1985

MUN in the U.N. Security Council room, 2002

From the archives...

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ODUMUN Alumni Event, 16 February 2013ODUMUN Alumni Event, 16 February 2013ODUMUN Alumni Event, 16 February 2013 The 2012 alumni reception for our 35th anniversary was an amazing success. We don’t want to

stop. We welcome you to the annual conference in February 2013 for the alumni reception and

dinner, Friday 15 February at the Sheraton Waterside in Norfolk. The dinner is free to alumni,

courtesy of financial support from the College of Arts and Letters. This is a smaller event.

Seating is limited. To reserve, contact Alan at ajrogers@odu.edu and 757-683-5933.

Matching

Matching Gifts. We are de-

lighted that Dawn Serafine

(Class of 1989) has pledged

to match every gift or pledge

up to $5,000 in all. With

your support and her match-

ing funds, Model UN will be

able to provide major schol-

arships for student leaders.

Your support will reward

our hardest working stu-

dents, facilitating participa-

tion regardless of their finan-

cial situation.

Long-Term Goal

Endowment for Model UN Schol-

arships. Serving as Secretary-

General of the ODU Model UN

conference is full-time. Our Presi-

dent and USGs work just as hard.

Like you did, they do it because

they love it. They greatly deserve

scholarship support. But this re-

quires an endowment, our highest

financial goal. A yield of $3,000

annually for scholarships to stu-

dents serving in these vital roles

requires an endowment of roughly

$70,000.

Short-Term Goal

Scholarships for Conference

attendance. Every year we

send 120 students to roughly

six events, from the New

York trip to crisis simula-

tion conferences. The $150

trip fee is a serious barrier

for many students. Help us

create an annual fund of

$2,000 to ease the financial

burdens and maximize stu-

dent participation in out-of-

town events.

Support the ODU MUNSupport the ODU MUNSupport the ODU MUN

To donate, contact us for details or go directly to Support ODU by clicking HERE. Be sure to

designate your support for ODU Model United Nations.

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Stay in TouchStay in TouchStay in Touch

Connect with friends on the ODUMUN

Alumni Facebook page. Post your pic-

tures; be sure to add explanatory captions

for those of us who weren’t there.

Share: If you know other MUN alumni

who might not be on our contact list, for-

ward this invitation and let us know. We

are compiling a photographic record of

your Society and MUN experiences. You

can help us tremendously by sharing your

pictures and background stories on Face-

book or by sending to ajrogers@odu.edu.

Send us a line to update your contact info,

especially for surface mailings. Even if we

have your current e-mail address, we do not

have post addresses for most alumni. To up-

date your info, register and update your entry

with the ODU Alumni Association’s Lion’s

Den at www.odualumni.org or with us at

ajrogers@odu.edu.

Alumni Book Project

It is our pleasure to thank everyone who sent us

a memoir of your MUN experience or an article

about what the program meant to you. We have

collected a lot of tales from 35 years of MUN

history and even more about where it led people

after. We are in the process of editing these into

a book to be printed and made available to all

ODU MUN alumni. Meant to contribute but

never got around to it? Don’t keep your memo-

ries to yourself. It is not too late to submit a

memoir. Contact Aaron Karp at akarp@odu.edu

ODU Model United Nations

Batten Arts & Letters, rm 2002

Old Dominion University

Norfolk, VA 23529

Phone: (757) 683-3923

Fax: (757) 683-5936

Website: www.odu.edu/mun

Aaron Karp, Director

Email: akarp@odu.edu

Phone: 757-683-5700

Alan Rogers,

Associate Director

Email: ajrogers@odu.edu

Phone: 757-683-5933

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