News
Rebuilding New Orleans
Twenty-four alumni from all over the U.S. took part in an Alumni Association Home Building Community Service Project in January. The group worked on building and repair projects through HandsOn New Orleans, lowernine.org, and Phoenix of New Orleans. Read about their daily progress.
UMass Amherst Helps Haiti
The UMass Amherst community is contributing to earthquake relief efforts. The Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life and the International Programs Office are working with other campus organizations to provide opportunities to help.
New Leadership Introduced
The Alumni Association brought over 100 alumni and friends of UMass Amherst together in Springfield, MA to meet the university’s new leadership team and hear plans for economic growth and community collaboration with the flagship campus. Chancellor Robert C. Holub introduced the new team.
We are Listening...
I am taking this moment to provide you with the results of our recent alumni survey, which focused on the value alumni place on the benefits, programs and services we provide. The survey results indicate that what alumni value highly is being able to connect with each other and their alma mater, by way of the Alumni Association and campus communication tools.
Class Notes
Read the Latest Class Notes
Nancy (DeLisle) Stefansson '87, SOM, has been named Kaspersky Lab's Person of the Year 2009. The annual Kaspersky Awards are distributed to employees whose achievements can't stay unnoticed and whose contribution to Kaspersky's success is extremely valuable for the company. Nancy is the Director of Retail Accounts for the U.S. and Canada and she received this award for growing the North American retail business by triple digits each year for the last three years. Nancy was responsible for launching the retail business in the U.S. and Canada and Kaspersky is now the #2 selling Internet security software in the U.S. and Canada.
Alumni Profile
Making a Difference at Ground Level
For Charles D. Hadley ’64, ’67G; Bill Knecht ’65; and Keith Liederman ’84, life in the Big Easy hasn’t been so easy since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005. Longtime residents of New Orleans and leaders in their community, they anticipate that it will take 10 to 15 years for the city and neighboring parishes to truly recover. Still, they are seeing signs of progress, especially with the help of groups like our alumni volunteers that recently spent a week in New Orleans rebuilding homes.
