Word: alum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also anticipate meeting new people at Harvard Club events. Every year, the Harvard Club of Maryland sponsors a winter luncheon for members and current students. In a room full of strangers, conversations spontaneously combust into being. This past December, I sat next to a Business School alum and his wife. We talked about his old job (captaining an oil tanker), his new job (real estate development), his wife's job (sales) and my future job (journalism). We discussed the state of the real estate market in Baltimore; they gave me strategies for apartment-hunting in New York...
...exuberance was enough to make an old alum smile--and there were quite of few of them there as well...
...Somewhere after that response, an old alum, Athletic Director Bill Cleary '56 smiled. He preached the same gospel to his hockey players and he was among the last to hear the same cheers from the Crimson faithful...
This decision has prompted a mixture of anxiety and disdain from friends with Senior Gift posts. Maybe they feel the way I did when an alum refused to give to Radcliff College Fund: no special prizes, and above all, no score for me. But the fact that they construe my choice as selfish or unthinking makes me suspect there's something more behind the need to make everyone give. Sort of like Secret Santa, where everyone is assigned a gift and recipient but ends up giving boring little gifts to the sole satisfaction of the person coordinating the affair...
...Hillel Co-Chair Michael A. Kay '01 says direct donations, as opposed to University funding, make up 70 percent of the organization's budget. Of that 70 percent, Kay says, a significant amount comes from donations by Hillel alums--solicited through mailings and student phone-a-thons--while the rest comes from the National Hillel Association and non-alum donors with an interest in the Jewish community...