Sentence examples for distinctive alumni from inspiring English sources

It has close to 26,000 students and among Tsinghua's many distinctive alumni is Chinese President Hu Jintao.

The College of the Holy Cross's graduating class of 1972 included a number of particularly distinctive alumni: a National Football League running back who won a Super Bowl with the Miami Dolphins in 1973, then established a successful legal career; a writer who received the Pulitzer Prize; even a justice of the Supreme Court.

She has also received the Tipper Gore Remember the Children Award from the National Mental Health Association, inaugural Young Leadership Award from the National Mental Health Research Association (NARSAD), and was named the first-ever Montgomery County Public Schools (MD) Distinctive Alumnus in 2007.

The most distinctive black-and-orange item in most alumni's closets is the class jacket, worn by seniors during Class Day activities and donned for marching in the P-rade at Reunions.

Many upperclass students and alumni wear a large, heavy, distinctive class ring known as the "Brass Rat".

Several alumni cited this design as a distinctive feature of the program.

One boy gained admission despite an academic prediction of 70 because "there was apparently something manly and distinctive about him that had won over both his alumni and staff interviewers".

Via their distinctive output, these men (along with other notable Cahiers alumni like Claude Chabrol), formed the nucleus of the French "Nouvelle Vague," or "New Wave," a film movement characterized by experimentation, innovation, and a new sense of artistic freedom and possibility.

Throughout, dedicated alumni known as Marshals maintain order in their distinctive orange "Da Vinci" hats and blue blazers.

We also will continue to foster our expanding younger alumni with the Recent Alumni Committee, which organizes fun, progressive and distinctive social events for recent graduates.

One of the great strengths of American research universities is that our alumni recognize -- and contribute in significant measure to -- the distinctive excellence of American institutions.