We want to welcome our new members to the club, and thank the members who have been long-time supporters! Please plan to join us on Saturday, June 22 from 12 to 2 pm at the Longaberger Alumni House for a celebration of our members!.
We will have a variety of appetizers and beverages. We will be indoors, but there is room to go outside if the weather cooperates. If you want to dress up in your Buckeye gear, that is totally appropriate! There will be photo opportunities with celebrity guests, games and prizes, and an opportunity to purchase unique Buckeye souvenirs to support our scholarship fund.Everyone is welcome to attend this event! Come meet our leadership team, ask questions about the club, and see how much fun we are! This is a family-friendly event, so feel free to bring yours!
Questions? Call Leyla at 614-893-0559.
Or you can send a check (Payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni) to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum Drive, Worthington, OH 43085. Be sure to include your name, email address, and phone number so we can contact you!
Join us on Saturday, June 1 at 10 am as we visit Green Lawn Cemetery for a guided walking tour through Ohio’s second largest cemetery. We will begin inside the historic Huntington Chapel, then stroll outside across the expansive grounds to explore unique monuments, special graves, and hear fascinating stories. We will also visit several state champion trees and enjoy the rich natural environment that makes Green Lawn such a special cemetery park.
Founded in 1848, Green Lawn is a vast tapestry of history, art, and nature. They are also part of the Scioto-River Green Lawn Audubon Important Bird Area and an arboretum.
A “rain date” will be scheduled later if needed, in case of inclement weather. Green Lawn charges only $10 / person for this guided tour with a cemetery expert. If you have any questions, please email: OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com.
Or you can send a check (Payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni) to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum Drive, Worthington, OH 43085. Be sure to include your name, email address, and phone number so we can contact you!
Go behind the scenes in the most famous landmark on campus — inside Ohio Stadium!
This VIP tour will be guided by a “Redcoat” (stadium usher) and take you inside the Press Box, President’s Suite, Recruit Room, Band Center, Home Locker Room, Huntington Club, and even onto the field!
Our tour date is Saturday July 13 at 11 am, and we are joining together with the Fairfield and Delaware Counties Alumni Clubs to bring you this opportunity. Tickets are $35 / person, with a maximum of 4 tickets per order.
Info that you need to know: No video cameras (you’ll be allowed to take regular photos in most places, but there will be some restrictions). There will be lots of walking — wear comfortable shoes. Please let us know ahead of time if you need wheelchair access. No food or beverages (only water bottles are allowed). Parking is not included in the cost. No bags — same limitations as a game day (5″x8″x1″ maximum size bag/purse). Tour will last approximately 1 1/2 hours.
Order here (limit 4 tickets per order).
Or you can send a check (Payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni) to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum Drive, Worthington, OH 43085.
We will send parking suggestions with a reminder a few days before the event. Questions? Email us at OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com.
Join us for a unique afternoon as we get a special tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, on our OSU Campus.
The tour will begin at: 1:30 pm on Saturday July 20.
We’ll have our own tour guide, who will take us behind the scenes and show us special and unique items from their collection. There is no cost for the museum, you only have to pay for parking.
To attend, please send your name, email address, and phone number to us at OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com. Tell us how many people in your party so we can plan for the number of tour guides we’ll need.
You’ll receive an email confirmation, and then closer to the event date, you’ll be sent directions for parking and where to meet the group. Questions? Reply to this email or call 614-893-0559 or email us at OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com..
Experience the wonder and tragedy of the world’s most famous ocean-liner,Titanic. Viewed by more than 30 millionpeople worldwide, this exhibition includes more than 200 authentic artifactsrecovered from the wreck site of Titanic on display with full-scale roomrecreations. This is an educational andintriguing experience for all ages.
If you try to go see the “Titanic” exhibit at COSI on your own, it will cost the average adult $45. But we are putting together a Group Tour for our members that will only cost you $25! Join us on Saturday August 3 at 1 pm at COSI, 333 W. Broad Street in downtown Columbus. You’ll have time to visit and look around COSI before and after our tour, but we will enter the Titanic exhibit as a group. Order online here or send a check (payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni) to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum drive, Worthington OH 43085. Be sure to include your name, email address, and phone number with your payment so we can contact you!
MAXIMUM 4 tickets/person. You’ll receive a reminder with group meeting instructions a few days before the event. Questions? Email us at OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com.
What a better way to kick off Spring than to enjoy some Buckeye Football!! The Scarlet vs. Gray spring football game will be on Saturday, April 13 this year. We’ll order a block of tickets, and we’ll host our traditional tailgate party! Game time is currently listed at 12 Noon.
Over the past 10 years, the OSU Alumni Club of Franklin County has awarded $50,000 in scholarships to incoming first-year students from Franklin County high schools.
We can’t do it without your support! Mark your calendar for the Annual Day of Giving on April 17, and help us make Buckeye dreams come true!
If our FRANKLIN COUNTY Scholarship Fund doesn’t appear automatically, click the “search” button and enter our Fund Number 600137. You are welcome to go to this website any time throughout the year to donate, but this is the one day each year that we participate with all the other clubs to raise awareness.
THANK YOU so much for supporting our future Buckeyes!
We’re sponsoring a diaper drive and packing party this spring to help the Columbus Diaper Coalition. This organization helps struggling families with access to clean diapers. For more information on their mission, visit columbusdiapercoalition.org
The Columbus Diaper Coalition is in need of the following:
Newborn through size 7 diapers (biggest need: sizes 2, 5, and 6)
Pull-ups (any size)
Baby wipes (unopened)
They accept new or loose, open packs or sleeves of diapers.
Feel free to bring your donation to our meetings in February and March. Karyn Johnson will collect and deliver them on the day of our packing party.
Can’t attend a meeting? There are various donation sites throughout Columbus or donate via their Target or Amazon wish lists. If you donate that way, just let us know so we can include your gift in our contribution totals. Email: OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com.
Packing party: We will deliver donations and stay to pack diaper bundles on Saturday, April 6 from 9:30 to 11:30 am at the Columbus Diaper Coalition.
The address is: 3840 Lacon Rd, Suite 12 (Enter at Suite 14), Hilliard, OH 43026. This is just off Cemetery Road. We will have lunch after the packing at either Scramblers or Rusty Bucket afterward.
To sign up, please email Karyn Johnson at englanke@yahoo.com or call/text her at 614-822-1430. She will provide more details and a map just a few days prior to the event.
After all the holiday excitement, sometimes January can be a bit dull. Too cold for outdoor events, so you’re stuck inside? We have the cure: join our annual Book Club!
The Alumni Association encourages alumni groups to present educational and cultural activities, so we paired up with the Asian & Pacific Islanders OSU Alumni to present an educational event with a splash of fun at the end. We’re going to read the book, “I Belong Here: Living the Life I was Born For in America,” by Helen Yee, a local (Columbus) author, a memoir about growing up Chinese in America, mastering resistance to bullying and discovering her own destiny. (A full description is below.)
You can find this relatively inexpensive book on Amazon or at your nearest bookstore. We’ll aim to complete the reading by March, and then our alumni groups will join together for dinner to discuss. You’ll get to meet a whole new group of alums, enjoy a great meal, and learn from an interesting discussion. And since this author is local, she is planning to join us for our discussion and dinner!
Email us at OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com to let us know if you’re interested, and we’ll add you to the list to contact when we schedule the dinner. If we get enough people to join us for dinner, the Alumni Association might even cover the cost of the meal! Questions? Call Mary at 614-323-5379.
Description:
I Belong Here – Living the Life I was Born For in America tells the story of one of the 4.5 million women who have been bullied with a gun, beginning with the night Helen Yee faces a masked gunman inside her car. Yee is no stranger to harassment. As a Chinese immigrant, bullying had plagued her formative years, but no longer does she passively accept it. Relying on years of martial arts training, she quickly forms a strategy based on the wise advice, “never go to a second location.” Written with candor and aplomb, I Belong Here follows Yee’s journey from a cloistered Chinese childhood into mainstream 1960s midwestern America, navigating between dual cultures and revealing events that cause her to reimagine traditional concepts of family. Yee courageously pursues her own version of love and romance while training for the Olympic Taekwondo Team and discovers the destiny-changing power of massage and acupuncture and a future calling. In the current climate of Asian disdain, Yee’s unfathomable resilience and daring approach to personal and business challenges will inspire not only Asians, but cross over racial lines to those who feel beaten down by haters, bullies, and mockers. She offers a fresh vision to those seeking the hope of a brighter future. Optimistic and uplifting, I Belong Here encourages all readers to find their inner strength, identity, and the fullness of their destiny.
