Dear Hood College Neighbor,
Please join me and members of my senior staff for a special Presidential Breakfast for Neighbors on Wednesday, October1, 2008, from 7:30 to 9:00 am in the Whitaker Campus Commons. My staff and I will share with you recent developments at the College and our plans for the future.
As you may know, the past year has been another exciting one for Hood. In October our Board of Trustees will consider how the College will address future housing and parking needs on campus. As our neighbor, you are a very important constituency, and we would like to keep you informed. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to remain a good neighbor.
I hope you can join us for this breakfast meeting on October 1. Please R.S.V.P. to Zoe Welsh at (301) 696-3130 or welshz@hood.edu.Sincerely,Ronald J. Volpe, Ph.D.President
Monday, September 29, 2008
Hood President Volpe's Oct. 1 Invitation
Some neighbors had not gotten the Sept. 16, 2008 letter from Hood College President Volpe inviting residents to an Oct. 1, 2008 breakfast meeting to discuss the College's upcoming changes. We're reprinting the letter in its entirety below:
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For many of us, the breakfast was a repeated exercise in frustration. As typically happens, the neighborhood meeting was scheduled at a time inconvenient for most working people or folks with school age children -- the majority of people in this neighborhood. Dr. Volpe repeated his standard stump speech, running about 70 minutes, leaving little time to ask questions or make comments. I appreciate Hood's effort to reach out to the community, but can't help but question the college's sincerity in truly wanting to cooperate and communicate with the neighborhood. This really wasn't much of an open forum, and some of the neighborhood did not receive any official notice of the breakfast meeting from Hood -- they only learned about it from the flyers passed out by the Hood Neighbors group. I want Hood to be successful. It's an asset to the Frederick community. I also want to maintain the quality of life of my neighborhood. I wish Hood College had a little better understanding of the definition of dialogue. But let that not stop us from continuing to work with both the college and the city for the best outcome for the school and the neighborhood.
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