"Stepping Out with Gene Keady" was the theme for the first meeting of The Purdue Alumni Club of Central Kentucky (PACCK). Fellow Boilermakers of Central Kentucky officially helped create PACCK October 11, 2001 at its charter meeting held in Lexington Kentucky.

Men's head basketball coach Gene Keady was the evening's keynote speaker and was joined by longtime friend, University of Kentucky head basketball coach Tubby Smith.

Kellie Cox, Purdue Alumni Association Assistant Director for Clubs, brought greetings from the campus and the Purdue Alumni Association.

The winner of the drawing for an autographed _ basketball was Deanna VanBusscam. Election of officers was held and the following officers were installed: President, Les Brooks, Vice President, Mike Shaffer, Secretary, Bill Sheets, Treasurer, Lara Beth Sheets

Les Brooks

Welcome to all of you, who elected to be a part of the Purdue Alumni Club of Central Kentucky. I personally want to thank the steering committee that worked very hard during most of 2001 to make this club a reality. The committee was made up of graduates from the sixties to the late nineties. The membership is no less diversified in areas of education and work experience as the diversity of the steering committee.

The club was prompted by a Christmas gift from my youngest daughter, which was a packet from PAA for starting an alumni club. Now that the start up is done the club is designed to be yours. The new board has formulated a list of club sponsored activities for the year and plans have been laid for each member to have their own activity presented to the membership. I hope to meet each of you at sometime throughout the year.

My personal goals for the club consist of memorable times for the membership and making young members of our community aware of the opportunities available at Purdue University.

Hail Purdue!

PACCK has a presence on the Purdue Alumni Association web site. Simply go to

http://www.purduealum.org then click on alumni clubs under the heading "PAA at Your Service." An interactive map of the United States will appear, then click on the state of Kentucky and a list of clubs will appear for the Southeast region of the United States. You may then click on the link for Central Kentucky, http//www.purduealum.org/Pacck

and you will be at the web site for PACCK. We hope you enjoy browsing the site and looking at some of our photo gallery pictures. In addition to the web site we have established a discussion board at http://pub9O.ezboard.com/bpacck in order to facilitate discussion among the members of our new club. We hope you will take a little time to visit these two sites and become connected to other Purdue alumni in Central Kentucky. We know you'll be glad you did!