From the VASFAA Archives
1987 As VASFAA
started up the 1987-88 year, President, Karen Koonce of
Tidewater Community College lamented about “Reauthorization”,
“Technical Amendments” and the “new” Congressional Methodology.
She was concerned whether we would have time to assume our
regular duties of counseling students with all the changes that
were coming!
Lisa Russell
of Roanoke College was our Program Chair. The fall conference
was held at the Holiday Inn at Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, VA.
The program offered a three-hour new aid officers training
session on Monday morning of the conference. Topics highlighted
were employment verification and Congressional Methodology. The
spring conference was held at the University Hilton in
Charlottesville. We celebrated our 20th Anniversary
as a professional organization. Lisa Tumer, our archivist, put
together a historical brochure about the association called “20
Years of Managing Change through Professionalism”.
The College Board was busy
struggling with the implementing the new Congressional
Methodology. They planned several workshops through out the
state to go over anticipated changes to the “FAF”. Do you
remember “dislocated workers” and “displaced homemakers”?
Lee Phillips of James Madison
University was our membership chair. She was busy soliciting
members in the fall newsletter. Dues for the year were $20 and
she instructed everyone to send them to our Treasurer, Hugh
Scrogham of Lynchburg College. Hugh presented his budget to
VASFAA. It totaled $47,150.
In the fall VASFAA Newsletter,
Gary Spoales of George Mason University and Vendor/Sponsor
Chair, informed the association of the 1986-87 Sponsorship
Levels. Our Honor Patrons were Centrust Savings, Financial
Collection Agencies, Florida Federal, National College Services,
Signet Bank, SEAA and Wachovia Services.
The fall of 1987 was an anxious
moment in time for financial aid administrators!! Many changes
were on the horizon, but we all felt confident the association
would provide us with the guidance that we needed to perform as
professionals.
Submitted by
Holly Rison, VASFAA Archivist, Randolph Macon College |
