Monday, May 16, 2011

New Facebook Page

The Alumni Relations Office created our original Facebook group as a way to connect with alumni and for alumni to reconnect with each other. Facebook is now making changes to their "groups" and we no longer feel that a group will meet the needs of the ever-growing Alumni Association. Our group has been scheduled to be archived, and will no longer be used by our office to send out information. Because of this, we invite you to "like" us at our new Facebook page to stay up-to-date about what is happening with the Alumni Association and what events will be coming to your area.

Friday, May 13, 2011

112th Commencement

On May 6th, Southern Utah University celebrated it's 112th Commencement Ceremony in the Centrum Arena. This year SUU graduated 1741 graduates, including 335 master’s degrees, 997 bachelor’s degrees 389 associate’s degrees and 20 certificates. The graduates ranged from ages 17-64, and came from 37 U.S. states and 14 different countries from around the globe. 992 of the grads are females and 749 are male, 59 of them being married couples.

The University bestowed honorary doctorate degrees on alumna and dedicated SUU public servant, Anne A. Judd, alumnus and business leader Edward C. Stokes and Harvard Business School professor and commencement speaker, Clayton M. Christensen. You can read Clayton’s speech here and student speaker Landon Gray Mitchell’s speech here.

Congratulations to the Class of 2011, and welcome to the Southern Utah University Alumni Association!








Monday, May 2, 2011

Thunderbird Night at the Bees

Alumni Relations and the Admissions Welcome Center partnered with the SUU Marketing & Public Relations Office on Thursday, April 28, 2011, for the second annual Thunderbird Night at the Salt Lake Bees.

It was a great night for a baseball game and BBQ, and we enjoyed visiting with alumni, their families and members of the 2011 freshmen class. We were also fortunate that the weather cooperated (unlike our first attempt on April 7, when we were rained out). Ted Whitaker ('71) our vice president for chapter relations threw out the first pitch and even got his picture taken with Bees right-hander Eric Junge and members of the Honeybees.

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