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Welcome All Alumni- As of July 1, all UMass Amherst alumni are members of the Alumni Association. In our continued effort to engage and include more alumni, the requirement of paying annual membership dues to receive alumni benefits has been discontinued. We welcome all alumni!
Alumna wins Emmy for Documentary Work- When the Emmy Awards were presented this year at the New York City branch of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Sarah Foudy ’96 (STPEC/comparative literature) was on the receiving end, twice. Foudy is a producer/editor for the Spanish-language documentary series Nueva York, which covers Latino cultures in New York and airs biweekly on public television CUNY-TV.
Pioneer among Electrical Engineering Graduates- Before Bob Raymond '49 graduated as an electrical engineering major, he experienced World War II, the GI Bill, the legislative action establishing the University of Massachusetts in 1947, the campus reorganization creating the School of Engineering in 1947, and the formation of the Electrical Engineering Department in 1948.
Scott Slarsky '86 on cover of Architect Magazine- UMass Amherst alumnus Scott Slarsky '86 is featured on the cover of the May issue of Architect Magazine. He is a partner in designLAB, which was selected as Architect's "Top 50" firm. designLAB was named the fastest rising firm by the magazine as ranked according to three critical goals: profitability, sustainability, and design quality. Scott previously designed the Fine Arts Center box office addition at UMass
Alumnus Publishes New York Times Bestseller- Inder Sidhu '83 has become a bestselling author. Sidhu, a senior vice president of strategy and planning for Worldwide Operations at Cisco, wrote the New York Times bestseller, Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today’s Profit & Drives Tomorrow’s Growth, published recently by FT Press.
Building a Career in Radio, Alumnus Learns about Life- “My relationship with radio began at age thirteen,” says Peter Thomson ’85 (STPEC), environment editor for The World, a daily one-hour public radio news program produced at WGBH, Boston by Public Radio International and the BBC. The result of his esteem, his talent for lyrical storytelling, and “luck intersecting with and maybe even trumping initiative” is an award-winning career that has helped set the standard for environmental journalists across the county.
The difference between Harvard and UMass- Jonathan Fortescue '89, an English and Linguistics alumnus who is currently the Managing Director with J. Robert Scott Executive Search in Boston, MA shares his thoughts on the differences between Harvard and UMass and gives some advice on how to build a career. "They say education is wasted on the young but I felt that I got everything out of my undergraduate education that I possibly could have."
Alumni Profiles
Creative Crackers- Whitney Lamy '80 never saw herself doing just one thing for her entire career. An artist at heart, she has always gravitated toward jobs that provided a creative outlet. Through her latest venture, Castleton Crackers, Lamy is applying her creative energies and love of baking to develop her product line of hand-made artisan crackers and market it around the country.
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Class Notes
Floris Wilma Ortiz-Marrero '97 MED, '09 EDD was recently named the 2011 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year! Ortiz, a native of Puerto Rico, teaches English as a second language at Amherst Middle School in Amherst, MA.- Read more class notes and submit your own!
