Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Gee

What has gratified me the most is the enthusiasm I have witnessed this week on campus and among our alumni and friends. No doubt that a winning team brings great credit to the university.

Alumni Hall worked great, and he's trained real well and he's sharp. You get indecisive when you have another race that suits him 20 miles away. Of course, the Gold Cup is a great race so we're kind of on the fence right now, but we'll have a decision pretty soon.

Alumni come out of the woodwork for this one.

This center will greatly benefit students who will one day be alumni themselves.

Cael Sanderson

This is a chance to make a statement to the nation about where we stand as a program. We have young talent and successful alumni and this is a platform to get more experience.

This institution has been around since 1887. It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

This institution has been around since 1887, ... It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

For a small institution like this to raise that large amount of money involving such a high percentage of its alumni is significant.

Wendy Kopp

It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

This memorial garden, designed to spring into life each September, will be a living memorial to the alumni who were lost. It is a quiet place to reflect about the importance of friends, family and life, amidst a turbulent world.

It's a really neat atmosphere around school. Everybody's excited. The administration has been so supportive. I'm getting e-mails from alumni who graduated as far back as 1982.

As being a Washingtonian I just think that Howard is a great institution. I mean this Gym was built in what 1963, so of course there are some things that need to be improved upon. So I need to get the student-athletes that have graduated to give back, because that is what is going to get us going. I have to convince the alumni to get on board, because there are some things that the university can't do alone.

People told me that nobody was going to show up. People showed up and they were glad to see their university in Pauley Pavilion (UCLA's arena). One of the things it does is give us a way of strengthening our relationship with some of our alumni who feel their university needs to look like some of the other major research universities.

Eric Gordon

Our alumni present us with a unique opportunity to build a foundation of support to be a strong public school.

The student body and community have been unbelievable in supporting the team and the program. I am also thrilled with the involvement and interest our alumni have taken. I know the players have also appreciated all the support at their matches and around town. People have been so good to the team, and they love playing in front of a great home crowd.

The most important thing to me is to be playing well. We need to win some games away from Alumni Gym because the tournament isn't being played there.

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

These alumni are aware of funding issues confronting their initiative and are committed to accomplishing funding requirements inherent in law school start-up and operation.

This game will have a playoff atmosphere with a lot of alumni returning to watch both teams. The only difference is there will be some baseball left to play for both teams instead of the season being over for the losing team.

We are honored to have such a committed community of alumni and friends. We welcome our HPU family back to campus on this special weekend and encourage them to join in our extraordinary vision for High Point University.

We are honored to have such a committed community of alumni and friends, ... We welcome our HPU family back to campus on this special weekend and encourage them to join in our extraordinary vision for High Point University.

We have received hundreds of letters from fans and alumni who are disturbed by what they saw.

The exposure that has resulted from our recent football success has had a profoundly positive impact on NIU. Enrollment applications soared, financial support rose and student and alumni pride and participation flourished.

Jim Tressel

especially because they're Ohio State and Texas, two great schools that if you had to pick two you'd want to see play, if it's the last game you'd ever want to see in your life, it might be these two and that makes it special, two great football states, two great schools, two of the largest alumni in the world. The interest level is tremendous.

Bill Thomas

Even though the building was torn down in 1972, people still have a strong connection to Atlanta High School. It was a very successful effort from alumni all over the United States.

We wanted something so people who are interested in the program can stay in touch. I think it's going to be especially useful for alumni who are out of the area now.

Continue your Brown experience . . . with the Brown Alumni Association

You have aspirations of doing things, and it's kind of neat to see everything fall together. The parents and the alumni are really the people that's made it happen. Everything has kind of snowballed.

We had a good week of practice following the alumni game, made some personnel adjustments to get our best players in the most crucial spots, and our offense has been executing well in practice.

We will be hosting our first alumni track meet for the boys and girls track teams. We would like to see as many former athletes come back as possible, just for the fun of seeing everyone again.

We do put out an annual report to all of our patrons and alumni every year. A lot is spelled out to the parents and also our patrons, who are so generous.

Every time we have an outsourcing forum, it's like a GE and McKinsey alumni association meeting.

We just think it is a really good way to introduce the students to the Alumni Association.