A message from Sharon Porter,
president of the MU Alumni Association
 

Dear alumni and friends,  

Hope this letter finds you doing well in this new year.

Your alumni association is staying busy getting ready for our spring events. We had a wonderful turnout for the Marshall/WVU basketball game. That event was really sweetened by a WIN!! Go Herd!

Now we are looking at Alumni Weekend and graduation – and all the work and fun of these events.

Alumni weekend will be very busy and exciting, with the grand classes returning to campus and a 10-year reunion going on, too. We will end Saturday night with our Annual Awards Banquet. This is always such a lovely evening, wonderfully planned and executed by Nancy Pelphrey, coordinator of alumni affairs. Thanks to Nancy, these events always go off without a hitch!

Our young alumni/student recruitment committee is up and running. The committee’s mission is how to make the most contact with our new graduates and potential alumni by aggressively pursuing ways to connect with these students while they are seniors. One of our major goals this year was to make our alumni association visible to our young alumni as an active organization that will encourage them to join. I am so proud to see how far we have come this year to accomplish this goal.

We are very close to announcing our groundbreaking for our new alumni center and should be able to update you all soon on that major project.

Thank you for your wonderful responses to nominations for our board. Elections will be soon. We will have 10 new people on our board and 10 leaving us, but we will press on to our goals.

Hope to see you at our Alumni Weekend events and, as always, comments or questions can be sent to me at the Alumni Center or my e-mail, sharonp71@aol.com.

Sincerely,