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Our fund drive is complete.
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CEASE WORK! Fund Drive 60 is officially CLOSED. Thanks to your generosity and continued commitment to WP-ORG, we have met our fundraising goal!

The numbers tell the story:

• Goal: $37,492
• Total pledged and collected: $38,017.28
• Mission accomplished: 101.4% of goal!
• 383 contributions from USMA classes alone, spanning generations of West Point graduates.

A special salute to our class leaders! The Class of 1964 led the charge with an outstanding $9,567.64 from 114 donations, including an impressive 22.1% participation rate! The Class of 1979 followed with $6,556, while 1969 ($3,340), 1968 ($3,030), and 1985 ($2,610) rounded out our top five. Together, these five classes contributed more than two-thirds of all class donations. Well done! Perhaps most impressive of all, our donors’ connections span the classes of 1948 through 2027 – a remarkable 79 years – and demonstrate that the Long Gray Line never stops supporting its own. From our oldest graduates to our youngest parents and supporters, this was a team effort. Every contribution, large or small, helped keep WP-ORG moving forward.

Effective immediately, stand down from all FD60 fundraising activities. To everyone who donated, spread the word, encouraged classmates, or helped behind the scenes, THANK YOU!

You can review the results here: https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report/

BEAT NAVY!

–Warren Hearnes ‘89
–for the WP-ORG Advisors

Hello WP-ORG!

We’re officially into week three of Fund Drive 60 and just about $5400 shy of our goal.

Any donation, large or small, makes a difference, and we’re grateful to receive each one: https://www.west-point.org/donate/

What we now know as WP-ORG began 30 years ago with a message left on a bulletin board: one grad looking for more grads on the World Wide Web. As these things do, it snowballed into a mission to facilitate communication and connection in an ever-expanding West Point community.

From my perspective, one of the most remarkable things about this project is the dedication of the people who make it work. Many of our email list moderators have been with us since the early days, and for a many of you, they are the face of WP-ORG. They watch over the lists that connect you to your class, society, special interest group, or parent club. They keep email addresses current; handle subscribes and unsubscribes and track down the cause of every bounced message. It’s quiet, essential work, and it keeps the mission on track.

Behind our moderators is a small core team: two grads, two parents, and me (a Class of ’64 kid). Together, we’ve worn whatever hats the moment required, and over the years there have been some moments! Through slow, steady progress and many hands, WP-ORG has grown from a desktop hobby into a reliable, modern cloud service. With our move to Amazon Web Services we have consolidated and standardized our systems, tightened security, and can better monitor and maintain the health of everything you rely on. The bottom line – WP-ORG is more stable and more prepared for the future than ever before.

None of this would be possible without you: your belief in WP-ORG and your support. Thanks to you, we’re standing here poised and excited for what’s next.

If you haven’t yet, please help us cross the finish line for Fund Drive 60: https://www.west-point.org/donate/

Thank you so much!

Megan Price Klein
megan@west-point.org
WP-ORG INC

If a recent email from a WP-ORG Email list ended up in your Spam or Junk folder instead of your Inbox, our system has now paused sending you any more mail from that address until this is fixed.

Here’s how to fix it — it only takes a minute:

1. Open your email and look for a folder called Spam or Junk.

2. Find the message from your WP-ORG’s group’s email

3. Open it and click the button that says Not Spam or Not Junk (different email programs use different wording, but it’s usually right at the top of the message).

That’s it — you should start receiving our emails normally again.

If you’re not sure how to do this, or anything above doesn’t match what you see, please email feedback@west-point.org and we’ll help.

— West-Point.Org (WP-ORG)

We are being stricter on complaints because we have crossed the threshold for our outgoing email via Amazon Web Services for complaints and placed on probation. We are now off of probation but have to be more strict in order to not cross that threshold again.

Thanks to all of you, WP-ORG has reached our semi-annual fundraising goal of $56,424 in less than 3 weeks! We appreciate your support and generosity, which helps us continue our mission and strengthen the associations that bind us together. 

Some quick statistics: Seventeen classes gave at least $1,000 to the fund drive. Thanks especially to the top five classes in dollar donations: USMA ‘64led the way with 83 donations totaling $9,467.28, followed by USMA ‘79, USMA ‘66, USMA ‘68, and USMA ‘78. 

A full donation report can be found at https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report/.

–Warren Hearnes ‘89

–for WP-ORG Advisors