As expected, my name did not come up (I later learned she found my new name through my college alumni magazine first), but those of 19 other Vilenkins did.
As for his "exile" in Java, the "Prinz van Asanti" led the Batavian learned society's protocol list in 1855, and when he died in Java in 1906, he was interred in the great botanical gardens at Buitzenberg -- a fitting tribute to the man who, according to his alumni record, "first planted coffee in the forests of Java".
On back of envelopes which Athletic Association sends out to alumni, the first printed instruction is this: "All Harvard men may buy for their relatives or friends, for whose respectable conduct at the games they are willing to vouch, a reasonable number of season tickets".
This is what students see: boosters and alumni come first, while they've been instructed to cheer their teams, pay their loans, and mind their business.
Over the years, Whyte's second-floor dining room hosted many meetings of clubs, associations and alumni, the Seventh Regiment, Princeton and Purdue among them.
Of its 28,000 alumni, two-thirds remain in education roles, including as principals and superintendents (about half of those educators are in classroom settings).
Camarillo will not make anybody forget Paul Warfield, the star receiver of the '72 team, but for at least a few hours, these Dolphins made the 1972 alumni the second-most popular men in town.
In real life they are American business executives or South African kennel owners, Danish gynecologists or Brazilian homemakers, Oxbridge and Ivy League alumni or ninth-grade dropouts, 22 or 92 years of age, and can have accents from anywhere at all.
Anchored by a remarkable 2008 show at the Barrow Street Theater in the West Village, "Trust Us" fleshes out the artistic process with a brief prologue covering the genesis of the act (both men are alumni of Second City in Chicago) and its people-watching preparation ritual.
Based on statistics compiled by PayScale in 2011, Duke alumni rank seventh in mid-career median salary among all U.S. colleges and universities.
