In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Fran's memory to the Joseph A. and Mary A. Donovan Scholarship Fund, The University of Maine Foundation, Two Alumni Place, Orono, ME 04469.
While we know that the economists think that college is a great value, we still do not know much about the value that alumni place on their college education and experience.
Without alumni support, "this place will not survive — it can't," he warned.
George Vaill, of the Yale Class of 1935, explained that the first alumni reunion took place in New Haven in 1824, and it was a "fund-raising device".
It was all about the kids when during the evening two Margaret's Place alumni (a 15-year-old and a 19-year-old) expressed their gratitude to the Foundation for making a significant change in their lives.
Smoke, lights, dancing and singing also play big parts in the production, by Circolombia, a company that places alumni of the school.
This mammoth 40th-anniversary gala, directed by Place alumnus Aletta Collins, involved some 70 performers in excerpts of pieces both old and new, spliced with voiceovers and film extracts.
The phone at the Cornell Club in Manhattan is bleating incessantly as alumni look for places to watch the Big Red, seeded 12th in the East Region, go up against the region's top seed, Kentucky, in Syracuse on Thursday night.
Ms. Prey will be interviewed at 6 p.m. by Paul Lieberman, an arts writer and fellow Williams alumnus, about her place among other NASA artists, who include Norman Rockwell and Robert Rauschenberg, and the state of watercolor painting in the United States, a subject she can talk about with some authority.
Then come magazines I never subscribed to in the first place, like alumni magazines from college, grad school and my high school.
Over the years the parade was eventually moved to campus, but anytime that the homecoming was taking place, many alumni would choose that weekend to return to campus.
