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 Alumni association position came open and you were an ideal candidate. I

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mean, you had seen hundreds of
students come into issue, hundreds of

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graduates going to issue and there had
to be a lot of uh satisfaction that

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highlights in that position. And might
you cover some of those? Yeah, it

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was, I mean, again, that was a labor
of love for mammoth, you know, three

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time sun double and most of my careers
was at a U. So, uh yeah, trying to

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get um alumni really feeling more
attached to the university was very

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important uh for me at a su during the
seventies, uh it was a time of huge

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growth and a lot of commuter students
and there was really not a strong

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affinity to the, to the university. A
lot of the my contemporaries felt as

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though we worked really hard and uh uh
we were working, we went to school

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et cetera. So trying to really find
ways to attach the alumni back day

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issue. And for me, it was really
focused on um letting them know that

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really incredible upward trajectory
that the university was still taking

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and that really their degrees, the
value of their degree was increasing

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every time we made a uh a gain in our
academic and, and overall reputation.

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So it was really fun to try and
strategize around that. Uh the messaging

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that we gave to our alumni either
through the magazine, through any kind

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of communication. Uh and the fun part
and just a fun part for me was just

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, you know, getting to know alumni.
And I just read a, a retirement letter

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from a colleague of former colleague
of mine. And he said when he took his

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job, his goal was to shake the hand of
every alumnus. And while I never

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could have done that, it still was
really rewarding to me to, to, to meet

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and get to know as many as I could.
And I still keep in touch with a

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really large number.