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May 2006
Reunion - Celebrate Your Medical Memories at Michigan!
October 20-21, 2006It’s time to register for Reunion! This fall the classes of 1956 (and prior Emeriti classes), 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001 will be celebrating Reunion.
The weekend will be filled with memories relived and friendships rekindled. A variety of events are planned for you…from faculty presentations to class dinners to Michigan football. It’s a weekend you won’t want to miss! To view a complete schedule of events, click here.
For your convenience, blocks of hotel rooms have been reserved specifically for medical school alumni attending Reunion. Click here for more information regarding hotel accommodations.
We look forward to seeing you at Reunion 2006! For further Reunion information, please visit our website, or contact Julie Antis at (734) 998-7703 or antisj@umich.edu. For further Reunion registration information, please contact Dawn Bednarski at (734) 998-7622 or dbedski@umich.edu.
Click and Connect – Update your Alumni Record Today!
It has never been easier to stay connected to your fellow alumni. Access the Alumni Network in the IMPROVED Alumni Records component of the Alumni website and get in touch with former classmates, update your profile, post class notes, read what your classmates have been doing, and much more.
Already registered? Take a second, pop on line, and check to make sure your information is current. Need to Register? Registration can be done in four simple steps and takes no longer than four minutes. Be sure to update your email address – information on the latest programs and special events on campus and in your area as well as special mailings, like MPulse, will be sent via your updated email address. Also remember, just because you register your information does not mean that you have to make your records public. You can keep confidential any information that you do not wish to share.
Also make sure to visit our updated Class Notes web page. You can post a class note of your own or search notes posted by your fellow alumni. Personal news such as birth announcements, marriages, and relocations are housed in the class notes web page as well as professional news such as professional awards won, recent employment changes, and educational accomplishments.
For more information, please contact Theresa Finney Dumais
at (734) 998-7584 ordumaist@umich.edu
A Message from the Dean
One of the perks of my position as dean of the University of Michigan Medical School is hearing first hand the heartfelt “thank yous” that come from the students who have benefited from alumni scholarship gifts. An example: “Because of my scholarship, I am today bound only by my own imagination and aptitude. You alleviated a financial burden for both myself and my family, and helped me to see that I have now a seemingly limitless array of career possibilities….” This quote precisely captures the goal of scholarship support, to allow our students, who are all among the most promising medical students in the nation, to be as good as they can be, uncompromised by debt, the worries that accompany debt, and the strategies - like outside jobs and the selection of particular specialties - that are employed to reduce debt.
Many of you are familiar with our opportunities for named scholarship gifts: the $5,000 one-year gift, the $20,000 four-year gift, the $100,000 permanently endowed scholarship fund. All of these named gifts offer the rewarding opportunity to get to know “your” student and to be engaged in the life of the University of Michigan Medical School today. I also know that you may only have the capacity at this time to make a gift of $10 or $100 or $500. Know that gifts of every amount are crucial in providing our students with the tuition assistance they need and signifying to them your interest in their success.
If you have made scholarship gifts in the past, I urge you to continue to do so. If you have not yet made a scholarship gift to support medical students at Michigan, I hope you will consider making a gift now. In addition to changing one student’s life, your gift is a worthy investment in the future of this great medical school of which we are all a part and in the future of medicine in America.
Please join me in making a scholarship gift this year. If you would like details on any of the named gifts, or more information about how your scholarship dollars will be used, please call B.J. Bess at (734) 998-6044 or e-mail her at bjbess@umich.edu. She will be glad to speak with you. Or feel free to send your scholarship donation today to B.J. Bess, ATTN: Scholarship, 301 East Liberty Street, Suite 400, Ann Arbor, MI, 48103.
Sincerely,
Allen S. Lichter, M.D.
Dean, U-M Medical School
Newman Family Professor of Radiation Oncology
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