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Spartans Engage in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
As Hurricane Sandy was pounding the northeast corrider, the Spartan Network was in action. "We're OK" became the most often posted words on Spartan Twitter and Facebook timelines. And within hours,...
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All Aboard The Spartan Line!
I've had a lifelong love affair with trains. My grandfather was an estimating engineer at the Lima Locomotive Works and helped create the great steam locos that were catalysts of commerce for America....
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The Spartan who stood up against racism
By Bob BenensonOn the day in which Barack Obama was sworn into a second term and we mark the courage of Martin Luther King Jr., I pay respects to another figure in the civil rights movement whose obit...
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What is a Spartan?
Listen to an audio version of this message.When I first came to Michigan State University in 1973, many of my friends at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School wanted to know why. There was a Big Ten school in...
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Spartans Will Power - A Global Day of Service
A recent survey by the US Department Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that being a volunteer can acutally make you a better leader. That wasn't news to us.We do it every day. It's imprinted on our DNA....
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Sue Petrisin Breaks Gender Barrier
From a Kiwanis press release on June 28, 2013 Vancouver, BC—Sue Petrisin, Associate Director for Alumni Programs at the Michigan State University Alumni Association and a 25-year member of the Kiwanis...
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The 60th Reunion of the Michigan State Baseball Team of 1954: Insanity or...
This post was written by Bob Reising, Conway, Ark.Hang the Almanac’s cheat and the Catalogue’s spite! Old Time is a liar! We’re twenty tonight!“The Boys”Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1859...
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Enrichment: Changing the Lens Used When Planning Alumni Activities
By Daniel Mathis, Associate Director of Alumni Engagement, MSU Alumni Association"Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible."– William Arthur...
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How Do We Exemplify the Michigan State University Brand?
By Tim Bograkos, Director of Major Market Engagement, Rocky Mountain Region, MSU Alumni AssociationAnyone who has heard Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon speak has a firm...
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Written by the MSU Alumni Association Engagement Team. Empower Extraordinary, the campaign for Michigan State University is MSU's largest fundraising campaign to date, with a goal of $1.5 billion...
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To the MSU Class of 2012
The greatest joy I associate with my work as the head servant for the MSU Alumni Association is the many opportunities I have to get to know our students.We may exalt the more familiar names who paint...
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Remembering Dick Beals
When I first met Dick Beals, I admit to being awestruck. 4'7" tall, with a forever young voice, Richard Beals was a true star who made a career out of thinking big. A 1949 Television and Radio grad in...
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A Future Without Dues
As of July 1, 2016 the MSU Alumni Association will eliminate the dues requirement for membership in recognition of what many alumni have been telling us for a long time – dues are a distraction.At the...
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How do you mend a broken heart? Through Selfless Service
Yup, we’re out of the tournament. High hopes are dashed. Great expectations splinter into a thousand shards of disappointment. What now?One of life’s great ironies is this: You can begin to heal by...
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