Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

The alumni team we're going to put together will include two years before they moved to the Gardens, when they played at Ontario Arena at Western Fair and were called the CNRA London Nationals.

The alumni still come up very often to have events with us and do all that. It's a lot of fun.

The alumni game is one of the best events of the year. It is great to see a lot of the players that have done great things for the Bears over the years. I think that they will be excited about the things that are happening to Bears soccer as we move fully back into Division I. The plans for the new stadium complex are unbelievable and will give us a great new home.

Lou Holtz

The alumni buried me every week. The plots have a view of the dome. It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

That would be the junior B London Nationals. We're planning a reunion and alumni game for Hockey Day in London in March.

We will reach out to all factions: Stan, the alumni and the current rowers.

We have brought together some incredibly talented performers, and we're pleased that we can present a free show for both the Galesburg community and all the alumni who come back for Homecoming.

We're really promoting Homecoming as a chance for alumni to enjoy the energy and excitement that takes place at Colgate every weekend,

Ryan Holmes

Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.

We have a lot of alumni that work at GE, or worked at GE, and a lot of them have built up a substantial amount of wealth through their GE stock.

My best attribute is that I handle pressure very well. My job is to see how good I can get this team to be. I went to the Touchdown Club one day, and I listened to all the different opinions from alumni and others. Then I said, 'I really appreciate your opinions, but I have no interest in them. It's kind of like me going to your work for an hour and watching what you do and then telling you how to do your job. My staff and I work 80 hours a week, and just because you think we should do this or that what kind of leader would I be?' I let the people know.

Most alumni have great memories of being at Western. It's been an easy sell on our part.

Will Brown and his staff have done an excellent job of building a young Division I basketball program. The team accomplished many historical things this season. The foundation has been laid for the program to be successful for years to come, something that our students, alumni and fans can enjoy with great pride.

You kind of say once the ball goes up, it won't be important, but that was a huge crowd for us. We filled up one whole side of the gym. It was family, students, faculty, staff and alumni support. Everywhere I turned, it was one of those groups.

We're blessed that God dropped her into Alumni Hall one day.

We got everything we wanted. We got the people back. We got the alumni back. The setback was that we didn't perform. If we play well and get beat by 25, that's not a problem. But to play that poor and get blown out, that's no fun.

To become the best possible writer, one must keep learning and building up networks, which is why the publication and the mentors are so important. Our mentors and alumni especially provide a really good literary network that most writers cannot obtain.

One of the reasons for Princeton's lower rank could be that it is a smaller school. Plus, it raises a disproportionate amount from alumni as opposed to other institutions with large corporate donations.

Craig Johnson

I was stunned . . . how many alumni told me how much he meant to them ? and not only musically. He is a real model for all of us.

Funding from the Alumni Association MasterCard Grant program and a co-sponsoring from the undergraduate Student Government got things started.

Jim Tressel

If it's the last game you'd ever want to see in your life, it might be these two teams, 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.

Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni and much-hyped annual awards ceremonies. One year Mel Gibson recited Hamlet and escaped from a straitjacket. Tom Cruise has strutted in a bra and stilettos. This year Sarah Jessica Parker gets the prize. A recent ... episode was about money woes. I wonder if there will be any jokes about dough this time!

I think it's great that UNCA tries to keep its alumni involved with campus life through the awards and all of the other events that we invite our alumni to attend.

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.

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.

We'd love to see former players and school alumni there for a community celebration.

Our students have to pay to go the game; they were tremendous. It gives our team a lot of confidence. We have proven ourselves to be a competitive team in the Atlantic 10 with less than most of what other teams have. We've been patient, and we have a lot of good things going here. The alumni are fired up. I think our administration will come through in the next year or so.

Our fans are great, but it's even better when you have the alumni here. So we obviously have extra motivation because we have a lot of family and friends coming back into town for this weekend, and anytime they're here you go out and give it your all.

Some of the guys and our alumni were talking about how great he played in that game. It was a great experience for him.