Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am extremely impressed with the leadership and mission of the University of Hartford under President (Walt) Harrison. I'm joining the university at a time of tremendous growth and see it as an opportunity to build a successful basketball team with a winning tradition of which our students, alumni and community can be proud.

I am always looking for a new challenge. Syracuse had everything I expected - great water, great facilities and excellent alumni support. It was a great foundation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Right now, Purvis is hurt; he sprained an ankle in the alumni game.

Clarence White

Our members have always wanted it to be returned to a high school. It's a historical place from the day it was built, ... The alumni are right behind (White) on this.

In 10 years, I see him as being very rich and having a family. When we come back for the alumni game in 10 years, maybe we'll be playing or maybe we'll be on the sidelines laughing.

I hope so. It would be neat for the game, the alumni and the community.

I'm joining the university at a time of tremendous growth and see it as an opportunity to build a successful basketball team with a winning tradition of which our students, alumni and community can be proud.

I'm ready. I want to play Placer Hillmen football at Le Febvre Stadium. This is one of the best weeks of the year, it's great to see all the alumni come back.

The Michigan State golf program would like to thank host Tom Ross III, David Hotze, and the rest of the alumni team for providing a great golfing experience.

Students with learning and attention challenges have been entering higher education in much increased numbers over the last 10 years. We've seen our alumni go on to graduate school in increasingly larger numbers.

Wendy Kopp

On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

It's a very exciting moment for all of our alumni and the school itself.

Dawn is the epitome of what the Distinguished Alumni Award represents. Since graduating in 1992 she has brought notoriety, prestige, and honor to the University through her personal and professional endeavors. Dawn's experiences at Virginia have helped her to impact the world in a meaningful way. She is most deserving of this recognition.

It takes a lot of planning. It involves teachers, staff, parents, students, alumni and a lot of business who donate a lot of services.

Bill Smith

It was great to see all of the alumni and family members out to visit our new home. It's a new beginning for a team rich in winning tradition.

It?s big knowing we kept the tradition going. It?s not just for the team that?s wrestling. It?s also for all the alumni from years past. They want to see us keep the tradition going that they started.

Joe Gordon

Never saw him at Steelers alumni gatherings. He pretty much distanced himself from football.

Gary Patterson

It was a great win for the program, but now it's time to move on. I'm very happy for TCU, the alumni and the players. It's been a lot of fun, but now it's back to work.

It's going to be tough. The alumni really have a good chance of winning because they played one more year and a lot of them played college.

It's getting harder to learn about these things because there are so few of them left. It won't be too long before there aren't any alumni around to talk about it.

The enthusiasm from the faculty members and student body has been great. I've gotten 10 or 12 e-mails from alumni going as far back as 1982 wishing us good luck.

You can't have a better match than that for Alumni Night.

The 'Come On Home' campaign will invite them back to see how far our branches have evolved, especially in the areas of educational enhancement and technology training. We think the alumni will be impressed.

Gordon Gee

The issue that all of us face is that alumni love to have the institution frozen in amber. The truth of the matter is that for an institution to survive, it has to grow, to look at the world as it is rather than how they want it to be.