Did you know … 32 % of Ohio State students experience food security – or- that 8,458 visits were made to the Buckeye Food Alliance food pantry during the 2023-24 academic year?   The need is truly real.

We want to help with this by sponsoring a food drive to stock the shelves of the food pantry.  An Amazon Wishlist has been setup to allow you to easily do so.  For the month of April, we will be supplying rice, pasta, granola bars, and cans of chicken or tuna that will be shipped directly to the food pantry. 

To help with this:

1 – Double click on this link https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/202QF7G0DCFJM/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2
2 – Sign in to Amazon
3 – Select the item(s) you wish to purchase.  Proceed to Checkout.
4 – Select the address for OSU Wellness Center / Buckeye Food Alliance.  Click on “Use This Address”.  Continue with payment.  
5 – Checkout.   Select “Add Gift Options”.  Confirm that your name is indicated in “From”.   
6 – Select the box “Email the recipient of their gift receipt”.  Type in email address mwenger1101@gmail.com  (This allows me to assure orders are delivered)
7 – Choose the option for Free Delivery.  Free delivery is likely pre-set for PRIME customers, others will need to purchase $35 or more (maybe partner with someone to meet this threshold).  
8 – Once you have submitted your order, you will shortly receive an acknowledgement email from Amazon.  Please forward that email to mwenger1101@gmail.com

Please don’t delay helping since the Amazon Wishlist will only be active during the month of April 2025.  Questions or concerns can be directed to Marianne Wenger, mwenger1101@gmail.com or (614) 582-0854 (no texts please).

Thank you SO much for your support of this very important effort!

The museum is a gem located just on the northern edge of the main OSU campus, and it houses not only memorabilia from the best golfer in Buckeye history, but also a history of the game itself.

We have arranged a group tour at a discounted rate for our Franklin County Alumni on Saturday May 17.  We’ll meet at the museum (parking is free!) at 11 am, and visit for about an hour and a half. 

Click here the get to the Ticket info page

This event is open to members and non-members alike, so bring your golf fan friends!  Sign up above  or you can send a check if you prefer (make sure its payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni Club and mail it to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum Drive, Worthington 43085).  It’s only $7 per person, a $5 savings off the museum’s current individual cost.

Questions?  Reply to to this email or call 614-893-0559.  

We are welcoming our new members to the club, and thanking the members who have been long-time supporters!   Please plan to join us on Saturday, June 28 from 12 N to 2 pm at the Longaberger Alumni House for a celebration of our members.

We will have a variety of appetizers and beverages.  We’ll be indoors in the air conditioning, but the patio will be available if the weather cooperates.  If you want to dress up in your festive Buckeye gear, that makes it even more fun!  

Sign up here online:   

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or send a check (made payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni Club) for $10 / person to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum Drive, Worthington, OH 43085.

There will be, 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!  
Questions?  Call Leyla at 614-893-0559.

Our fan-favorite event, the semi-annual Wine Tasting Dinner at the Wine Bistro on Lane Avenue, is back again this Spring for TWO dates!  

It will be held on Wednesdays; April 2 (SOLD OUT) and April 16.

Both nights will begin at 6:30 pm. The chef will create a special menu for us, to pair with a variety of wines. The same menu will be served at both events, so you can choose which night is most convenient for you!

We hope by offering two dates, we’ll be able to have more people enjoy this event with us.  There is still limited seating available for each evening, so you still need to get your reservation in early!  The Bistro will provide an amazing 4-course dinner, with wines paired to complement each serving. You’ll even be able to order bottles of the wines you enjoy right after dinner!

Sold Out

Plan to arrive by 6 pm so you have time to find parking and to socialize before dinner.  Parking is available behind the building (very limited), or on nearby streets, or also across the street in the Lane Ave Shopping Center. 

Questions? Call Leyla at 614-893-0559 or email us at OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com

Sign-up Deadline Past

This year we are partnering with the Circle K alumni, so we will be in a different location.  A map will be sent to you a few days before the event.

  If you order by mail, please include your name, phone and email so we can contact you.

GO BUCKS!!

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 3, and help us make Buckeye dreams come true!The website link to make your donation is:

https://giveto.osu.edu/makeagift

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 alumni clubs to raise awareness.  

THANK YOU so much for supporting our future Buckeyes!

Get ready to join us for our most important task we do each year – reviewing scholarship applications to select our 2025 recipient!  In February our Scholarship Chair Frank Stoy, will need 12-15 people to volunteer to review applications and rank the candidates. 

From a field of over 150 last year, we chose a handful of the best to interview, then selected a winner.  You will be so impressed with the quality of the candidates among these local high school seniors. The time commitment involved is approximately 2 weeks in mid-February.  You’ll be sent a list of applications, and will have a few weeks to review and “score” or rank the applicants, and a deadline to turn in your ranking list. To volunteer or if you have questions, please contact Frank at 419-386-6511 or frankstoy1@gmail.com.

January is a great time to stay indoors and curl up with a good book!  Our annual Book Club reading will begin in January, and we’re co-hosting again with the Asian & Pacific Islanders OSU Alumni Society. This partnership offers us a chance to learn about another culture, and after reading, we will gather for dinner and discussion.

Full description of the book:

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. 

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.

Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together.

Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond.

Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.

Here’s a great Holiday gift idea — Get the whole family tickets to join us for our annual gathering to watch the Top 15 ranked OSU Women’s Basketball team!  Our Franklin County Alumni Club has a block of Club Level mid-court seats to the Lady Buckeyes’ last weekend home game this season vs. Purdue, on Sunday, February 23, at 12 Noon. 

Tickets are just $13 each for this exciting BigTen match-up, so bring the whole family!  

You can order HERE or send a check (made payable to Franklin County OSU Alumni) to Leyla Hawkins, 1149 Tillicum Drive, Worthington, OH 43085.  If you send a check, be sure to include your phone number and email address so we can send you a confirmation and your tickets.

We are welcoming our fellow alumni from the OSU Black Alumni Society to join us for this game.  We will meet pre-game for our usual “Tailgate” party in the Huntington Club (2nd level of the Schottenstein Center). 

Questions?  Call Leyla at 614-893-0559 or email us at  OSUAlumniFranklinCounty@yahoo.com.