Alumni Association Launches The Brockport Alumni Association launched a new Young Alumni Program last November with events in Rochester and Buffalo. Designed for alumni who have graduated within the past 20 years or are 40 and younger, the Young Alumni Program will offer networking opportunities, mentor/mentee programs and social events. Check the alumni event calendar on the website (www.brockport. edu/alumni/event_calendar) for upcoming programs. Young alumni events are highlighted with an asterisk. If you would like to volunteer to help organize an event or have program ideas, please contact Bill Sachman, coordinator of alumni relations, at wsachman@brockport.edu.
Young Alumni Initiative
James Parry ’07, Michael Yates ’08, Chad Shaw ’10 and Matthew Taylor ’10 enjoy an evening at Pearl Street Bar and Grill in Buffalo during a Young Alumni Event with six other Western New York Area colleges.
We hope to see you soon! Cassandra Aman ’08, Bill Sachman ’07, Tony DiPonzio ’06, Lauren DiPasquale ’07, Kim Becker ’08, Karen Gottermeier ’10 and Kim Ehret ’05 catch up with one another at Bamba Bistro in Rochester.
Ted Bondi Memorial Scholarship Theodore A. “Ted” Bondi, Class of 1951, was a longtime physical education teacher, coach, and athletic director at Geneseo High School. He was a four-time All-American soccer goalkeeper at The College at Brockport. Ted was a member of the Brockport College Athletic Hall of Fame. He was a doer, an initiator, and a faithful friend. Ted died of a heart attack, at the age of 81, on September 11, 2010, at his home on Conesus Lake. He is greatly missed by his family, many friends, and all who knew him. Mary Lou Bondi, his wife, four daughters, Lu Ann, Tawny, Tracy, and Kathy, and two former Brockport College soccer teammates, Gene Orbaker ’53, and Harry Nash ’54, are working to help establish the Ted Bondi Memorial Scholarship. Bondi, Orbaker, and Nash are hoping that other former teammates, alumni, Brockport faculty and staff, fellow coaches, and friends will contribute financially to the Brockport College Foundation to help fund the scholarship. The goal is $10,000 for a yearly award of $500 to a student
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with a major in Health and Physical Education or Sports Management. For more information about the Scholarship, please contact Gene Orbaker at (585) 637-5538, Harry Nash at (315) 342-0178 or Mike Andriatch at the College at (585) 395-5809. To contribute to Ted’s Scholarship, please make your check out to the Brockport College Foundation and write “Ted Bondi Memorial Scholarship” in the note section.