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President's Message

Friend raising is Alumni Association's top priority

Tim SullivanThere is a special place in my heart for Northwest Missouri State University, and I suspect you share that feeling. It is an honor to serve as president of the Northwest Alumni Association Board of Directors. Our mission statement guides the Alumni Association to establish and maintain connections with the Northwest family. We like to reduce the mission to two words: friend raising.

Thirteen chapters from Mid-Missouri to Japan provided more than 200 chances this past year for you to connect with the Northwest family. The variety of events was impressive: a Mardi Gras dinner; helping patients with crafts at a children’s hospital; a wine and cheese social; marches in local parades; hosting the Bearcat jazz band at a local chapter event; a Northwest professor reading poetry at the local library; and, of course, socials at local watering holes and football watch parties. Friend raising is fun!

All alumni and friends are welcome at all Northwest Alumni Association events anytime and everywhere. Please come, have fun and connect with friends, new and ‘old,’ who share that special feeling toward Northwest.

As part of the Central Iowa Alumni Chapter activities, I had the delight of working the Northwest booth at tBearcat Babyhe Iowa State Fair in August. The fun included putting a Bearcat paw tattoo on the 14-week-old daughter of an alumna, “selling” Northwest to prospective students, talking with current students about the upcoming football season and meeting alumni of all ages. The Fair, Bearcats and friend raising go together well.

Because of a strong relationship with the Northwest Foundation, no “dues” are charged by the Alumni Association. Becoming a member is simple: help current Northwest students by donating $40 or more to the Northwest Foundation and you become a member of the Alumni Association for a year. I think of it as payback: by helping the University that helped me, I get a good feeling in my heart (and a membership card in my wallet).

Please look for Northwest Alumni Association events near you. If you don’t know if there is a chapter where you live, get the full listing of locations and officers at www.nwmissouri.edu/alumni/chapters.htm. Then come, participate in the friend raising and make new memories.

Bearcat best!

Tim "Sully" Sullivan '75
President, Northwest Alumni Association

 

P.S. Please contact your local chapter or the Office of University Advancement at (660) 562-1248 or alumni@nwmissouri.edu and get involved today.