Catalog
The SUUSI catalog will be mailed via bulk mail at the end of March.
Until then, check for updates here on the website, SUUSI NUUS, or browse last year's catalog. The catalog is provided complete and in smaller sections for those who do not have high speed Internet access. You will need to have Acrobat Reader software to view the files below.
Each year, registration forms are not published on the website until the first catalog has been received by mail in the wild.
If you'd like to be put on the mailing list for future catalogs, please click here.SUUSI 2008 catalog
The SUUSI 2008 catalog will be bulk mailed at the end of March. Until you receive your copy, or if you would prefer an electronic copy, you can download the catalog below.
SUUSI 2008 catalog (2.4 MB)
SUUSI 2007 catalog
The 2007 SUUSI catalog will be mailed via bulk mail at the end of March. Until then, or if you'd just prefer to have an electronic copy, you can download the catalog below.
Request a Catalog
We mail a paper copy of the annual SUUSI catalog to everyone who requests a copy. If you came to SUUSI in the last five years, we'll automatically mail you a catalog.
The catalog is the paper document with the logistics and detailed listing of workshops, Nature trips, and other activities for SUUSI. We post all the information in the catalog - and more - on this Web site, including the registration forms, but SUUSI is a paper-friendly as well as Web-friendly organization. We even have the catalogs from previous SUUSIs still online.
You can let us know when you move so the catalog will find whither thou hast gone - yea verily, even unto the nether regions of northern Alabama and the wilds of Toronto. (We use bulk mail to reduce postage costs substantially, but that means the US Postal Service won't forward the catalog to you.)
If you have not attended in the last five years and wish to receive information for the next SUUSI, or if you have attended SUUSI recently but need to make changes to your name or address, please fill out the following form.
Previous Catalogs
You can print all the information in the catalog from this web site, but we also print around 3,000 copies of an 80-page (or so) catalog each year. It costs about $1.50 per copy to provide paper copies, but that's one way to reach a large number of potential participants. (The catalog is convenient and never loses power - and do you see people taking laptops into bathrooms?) Most of our marketing is via word of mouth from previous SUUSI participants, but if our information distribution is effective and the universe evolves as it should, about 900-1,000 people should come to SUUSI each year...
We usually mail catalogs near the start of April. Mailing costs are substantial, and we always try to minimize the administrative costs for SUUSI, so we mail catalogs via a bulk rate. It saves a large percentage of the postage cost, but delivery typically takes 5-21 days.
We send catalogs to congregations after we mail them to individual addresses. (In theory at least, few "old time SUUSI people" will pick up a duplicate copy on Sunday, if they already have received their personal copy at home, so the copies sent to congregations will reach new-to-SUUSI folks.)
If you think you might come to SUUSI this year or next, please add your name to the mailing list for future SUUSI catalogs.
Each year, there's a different graphic that illuminates the theme for SUUSI. We use the annual image on the catalog cover, as well as on annual editions of the SUUSI T-shirt. There's a great quilt of catalog covers, scanned by Jim Blowers.
NOTE: You will need to have Acrobat Reader software to view the PDF files below.
2006 Catalog
2005 Catalog
2004 Catalog
- General Information - pages 1-15 (Will this be your first SUUSI?, Calling All Ministers, General Information, Getting to SUUSI in Blacksburg, SUUSIBoyz, Community Expectations, Volunteers, Information Office, Housing, Food!, About the Campus and Accessibility, Heath Care at SUUSI, Support Groups, Child Care COOP Dorm, Ingathering and Banner Parade, Spiritual Growth, Nightlife, Youth Program, Teens, Young Adults, Medians, Athletics)
- General Information - pages 16-33 (General Workshop and Nature Activities Information, General Workshops)
- Nature Program - pages 34-48 (Overview and Detailed Trip Descriptions)
- Registration - pages 49-53 (Fees, Deposits, Room Assignments, SUUSIships)
- Registration Forms - pages 54-64 (Oodles and Oodles of Forms...)
2003 Catalog
- front cover
- General Information - pages 1-6 (Will this be your first SUUSI?, Calling All Ministers, General Information, Getting to SUUSI in Blacksburg, Artisans Bazaar and Gallery, Community Expectations, Volunteers, Spiritual Growth, Gatherings, Athletics)
- General Information - pages 7-8 (Nightlife)
- General Information - pages 9-11 Youth, Teens, Young Adults, Medians)
- General Information - pages 12-13 (Information Office, Housing, Food, SUUSI Store, Telecommunications, Accessibility, Health Care, Child-Care Co-ops)
- General Information - page 14 (General Workshop and Nature Activities Information)
- General Workshops - pages 15-27
- Nature Program - page 28 (Introduction)
- Nature Program - page 29 (Introduction - continued)
- Nature Program - pages 30-42 (Overview and Detailed Trip Descriptions)
- Registration - pages 43-46
- Forms - pages 47-56
2002 Catalog
- all 52 pages of the 2002
- pages1-7 (What's New, General Information, Volunterers, Gatherings, Spiritual Growth)
- pages 8-17 (General Workshop and Nature Trip Information, Teen Way Off Broadway, Artisans Bazaar and Gallery, Nightlife, Young Adults, Medians, Athletics, Youth, Teens
- pages 18-19 (Information Office, Housing, SUUSI Store, Telecommunications, Food, About the Campus and Accessibility, Heath Care, Child-Care Co-ops, Support Groups)
- pages 20-33 (General Workshops)
- pages 33-43 (Nature Trips)
- pages 44-52 (Registration Information, Forms)
2001 Catalog
2000 Catalog
1999 Catalog
