I wanted to thank all of you for attending the first LIVE
Financial Aid Conference in two years! Dallas was a
wonderful place for a meeting if you can only have one
meeting a year! The other two places (Philly and Chicago)
were not fully open or had restrictions on meetings when
we were trying to set up our usual meetings in December
of last year, so Dallas was the place. It worked out well,
the hotel was great, the speakers were outstanding, and
airfare for most was cheap due to Southwest Airlines
having their hub at Love Field which was also right
outside the door of the hotel.

We had good crowd with over 65 school people in
a1endance and all were decision makers in their schools.
We had people from as far away as California, Michigan,
and  Massachusetts and of course from all over the
Midwest and South. Thank you all for your dedicated
support and kind words after the meeting.

We are in the process of planning 2023 now and it looks
like we will have our usual 3 meeting in Dallas, Philly, and
Dallas as before. I would like to have your input into what
subjects you would like covered so please take the time to
answer our survey questions when we email them in
coming days.

We also would like to have your input into next year’s
meetings. If you would like to help, we are planning to
have several opportunities for schools to participate in
the planning of next year’s meeting. We would like to
have regional school people help in this process and we
will be contacting several of you to help. Of course, if you
would like jump in help, please contact Terry Hopkins at
your convenience. alohaterry@tampabay.rr.com

I would like to thank all our speakers and sponsors for
their help in this meeting. We all owe them a big thank
you for stepping up, taking time out of their busy
schedules, and doing a fantastic job at this meeting! I
know we all appreciated your help and the knowledge
you shared with us.

If you need your certificates of attendance or PowerPoint
copies of any of the presentations, please email me at
alohaterry@tampabay.rr.com and will get yours at once!
Thank you,
Terry Hopkins “Aloha Terry”