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“This is really strange,” says Meredith Ulmer ’14 as she walks into my office in the Hancock House. You see, her father, Dave Ulmer ’84, used to live in my office at 111 W. Park St. when he was a student. For 18 years, Meredith has heard stories from her mother, Leann Ellison Ulmer ’86, and father who met at Otterbein 28 years ago. Her parents would reminisce about their residence hall life in Davis Hall (where Meredith is living just down the hall from where her father also lived), campus life and involvement in fraternity and sorority traditions. Meredith is not alone as a new Otterbein student with alumni relatives. This fall, we have a selfreported 115 new students — Meredith Ulmer with Becky Fickel Smith in freshmen and transfers — who front of Hancock House. have joined the legacy ranks of the other 90 upperclassmen. Another Cardinal Tale comes from a new legacy student who is third generation and the third sister to attend Otterbein. She proudly declares their family has always sung the Otterbein Love Song at Christmas gatherings. I hope you share your Otterbein memories with your children and bring them to campus for athletic, admission, arts and alumni events. As our Otterbein Admission Viewbook reads “Students who come here find something real and they carry it with them…from these four years to the rest of their lives.” Cardinal Footnote: Call the Office of Admission to make your appointment for your personal tour. 614-823-1500 or 1-877-OTTERBEIN or visit www.otterbein.edu/visit.
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Number of pints of tan and cardinal blood donated at the Cap-Otter Blood Drive in 2010.
166
Number of alumni living abroad.
32
Number of alumni traveling on the Mediterranean cruise fall ’10 and Caribbean cruise spring ’11.
205
Number of legacy students (self-reported) currently at Otterbein. A legacy student is anyone who is related to an alumnus/alumna.
22,419 10,309
living alumni alumni who stay in touch by e-mail
1,150
alumni on Otterbein Alumni Facebook fan page www.facebook.com/ otterbeinalumni
1,008
alumni in the Otterbein Alumni Group www.linkedin.com
94
alumni following Otterbein on Twitter www.twitter.com/otterbeinalumni