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

Hello alumni and friends,

It's been a busy, wonderful spring around our Marshall University.

We just had a fabulous Alumni Weekend. The 50th, 60th and 10th year reunion classes were honored at a luncheon. We were entertained by “Devil Anse Hatfield” and reminisced about former days. I renewed acquaintances with my third-grade teacher and former high school choir director. What fun!

Then our weekend ended with our 69th annual Alumni Awards banquet in the Don Morris Room. But, oh my, Nancy Pelphrey outdid herself and the Don Morris Room was transformed. Our wonderful evening honored students, faculty and distinguished alumni. The highlight of the evening was Mark McVey singing three numbers for us and I think I can safely say he brought the house down.

Then, graduation, and with it we added some 2,800 new alumni to our ranks. Sen. Robert C. Byrd (shaking hands with Marshall President Stephen J. Kopp at right) was our speaker and honoree. He was amazing, as usual, as he spoke to our grads. Sen. Byrd and businessman Tim Haymaker each received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree (see photo below). 

Dr. Kopp tried something we haven’t done at graduation for a long time. He had each graduate come up in order of their colleges and he shook their hands. That went very well and the individual college graduations were well attended. We, the Alumni Association, were represented by board members at all of these. It is our hope that we have brought a “face” to the alumni association so our new grads will join us and stay in touch and never forget Marshall!

Summers almost here. We will all get busy with things but keep your eyes open for Marshall happenings.

Sincerely,