Spring 2003

Sign Up For Your Permanent Rose-Hulman E-Mail Address

Rose-Hulman alumni now can have a permanent Rose-Hulman e-mail address through a new e-mail forwarding program available through the Office of Alumni Affairs. This new service is free to all alumni with an e-mail address.

With e-mail forwarding your e-mail will follow you wherever you go. E-mail for-warding provides a permanent e-mail address which automatically sends e-mail to your current e-mail mailbox. For example, John Doe, Class of 1995, might choose an email forwarding address of john_doe95@alumni.rose-hulman.edu. He could use this address permanently, even though he might change the place where he actually receives his mail. John will direct the service to automatically forward e-mail from this address to his real mailbox. Your choice will be the address you'll share with friends and colleagues.

E-mail forwarding provides a forwarding service. It is not a mailbox. Keep in mind that choosing an e-mail address which is hard to remember, may hinder alumni or colleagues from finding you. Subsequent e-mail will pass through this address to your personal account previously set up with the service provider of your choice.

To sign-up for this exciting new service, please go to the Rose-Human web page and click on Alumni Affairs (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/alumniaffairs/), then online alumni directory and click on e-mail for-warding on the left side of the page.

The Alumni Association has added a tour to its 2003 season for Rose-Hulman alumni and friends with "Italian Escapade" which will run June 24-July 7.

History, culture, cuisine, magnificent scenery and extraordinary art combine to make this a destination that appeals to the heart, mind and senses.

Highlights include all of the "must-sees" of Italy – Florence, Rome, Milan, Pisa, the Italian lake region, Venice, Assisi , Isle of Capri, Sorrento and Pompeii. Tour price per person begins at $3555. Contact Bunny Nash, Assistant Director of Alumni at 1-800-248-7448, ext. 8465 or bunny.nash@rose-hulman.edu.

ALUMNI SUPPORT SOUGHT TO HELP SENIORS WITH CAREER PLACEMENT

The Alumni Association Career Services Committee and the Rose-Hulman Office of Career Services are teaming up to solicit increased alumni support in the placement process this year.

"Because of the continuing difficult job market conditions, we are trying to reach out to alumni even more to help this year’s seniors enter the job market," said Kevin Hewerdine, director of career services. "We are asking alumni who know of employment opportunities where they work to consider funneling them to us."

The alumni association has thrown its support to this effort, said Mark Owens, chair of the association Career Services Committee and a member of the Class of 1972.

"Normally, our committee focuses on alumni placement, but given the current situation, we want to focus our energy on this year’s graduates and pull alumni in to help with the process," Owens said. "We have a large body of alumni and we want to use that to create opportunities for this year’s seniors."

"Alumni have done a good job for Rose-Hulman and our students in the past, but this year, we’re asking them to go the extra mile to get our students’ name in front of those people making the hires," Owens said.

Any alumni who know of openings with their employers should contact Hewerdine at 1-800-248-7448, ext. 8184 or via e-mail at kevin.hewerdine@rose-hul-man.edu. Owens can be reached via e-mail at mto@lilly.com.

ROSE-HULMAN MEMORABILIA SOUGHT FOR NEW ALUMNI CENTER

Don’t forget Rose-Hulman when cleaning out your garages and closets this spring. The new Alumni Center in Hatfield Hall provides an area that allows us to display memorabilia from Rose-Hulman’s past.

If you come across some items from Rose-Hulman’s history, don’t pitch them until you contact the college. The center currently displays a variety of items, from beanies to pennants to programs to historical photos, etc.

"We want the Alumni Center to provide a fitting tribute to our Rose-Hulman heritage," said Alumni Director Brian Dyer. "We encourage alumni to contact us about potential contributions for the displays."

Bill Nicewanger (class of 1963), chairman of the association’s honors and awards committee, will be heading a committee to formally contact alumni about such donations. If you have questions or thoughts about this project, contact Dyer at 812-877-8359 or via e-mail at brian.dyer@rose-hulman.edu.

Two alumni have joined the Alumni Association Advisory Board.

Sam Reed, class of 1981, president of BSA Lifestructures, Indianapolis, is the new chair of the advisory board’s Stude4nt Recruitment Committee.

The other new member is David Boodt, class of 1981, vice president and general counsel for the United Student Aid Funds in Indianapolis. He heads up the Alumni Clubs Committee for the advisory board.