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If you’re one of the 150 million active users of Facebook, visit the new page for the Alumni Association at bgsualumni.com/facebook. From there, you can get the latest news from on and around campus, watch videos and other media, post pictures and connect with old friends. While anyone can view the page, a Facebook account is free, easy to use and also required to take advantage of the full networking opportunities the site has to offer.
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Alumni Day mixes Mileti & Athletics
with mozzarella
Each year, the BGSU Alumni Association invites area alumni and friends back to campus for Alumni Day, a day full of Falcon athletics and classic favorites from local restaurants. Alumni Day 2009 didn’t disappoint, with a family pizza party at Mileti Alumni Center and exciting games with BGSU men’s and women’s basketball and hockey.
MACBASH In March, hundreds of Falcon fans rallied support for BGSU basketball during festivities at the Mid-American Conference tournament in Cleveland. Always a huge event for the hoops program, the tradition draws Falcon faithful from across northern Ohio.
Volunteer Leaders Conference sparks ideas and inspiration
As you might imagine from the varied alumni events nationwide, the Alumni Association includes a vast network of volunteer leaders who help plan, coordinate and host unique programs as well as create scholarship funds for deserving students. Launched in 2007, the Volunteer Leaders Conference is a biennial event that welcomes leaders back to Bowling Green for a series of workshops to help inform, inspire and energize their local alumni communities. The conference featured keynote speaker Bill Dallas ’77 of BGSU’s Dallas-Hamilton Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and offered topical workshops on community service, networking, BGSU’s unique faculty and programs and student recruitment. To learn more about volunteering on behalf of BGSU in your community, please visit bgsualumni.com.
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From vanity plates to credit cards – Falcon spirit makes a difference The Alumni Association has partnered with a variety of organizations that offer competitive benefits and special services for our members, including the state of Ohio’s Falcon license plate, with all proceeds funding the BGSU Alumni Laureate Scholarship Program. Hundreds of Falcon alumni are also taking advantage of the Alumni Association credit card, offered by Bank of America, which contributes 1.5 percent of every purchase to BGSU alumni programs. Learn more about these and other programs, including life, home and auto insurance, at bgsualumni.com/spirit.
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