September 2018 Alumni Council Update

An update letter from Alumni Association president Kristel Bulthuis announcing the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, new Council members and other news.
An update letter from Alumni Association president Kristel Bulthuis announcing the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, new Council members and other news.

We are looking forward to a busy fall, full of exciting events. October 4th is our Distinguished Alumni Award Reception, celebrating Dr. Dan Reilly as the 2018 DAA recipient at the C Hotel. Our first-ever reunion, for the classes of 1988, 1998 and 2008 is coming up on November 9th and we couldn’t be more excited! If you graduated in these years, keep an eye out for your invitation coming in the mail in September.

This September, we also have two RAMP events happening for the Business and Psychology departments. If you have degrees in either of those areas and would like to share your experiences with current students, please let us know!

We are very excited and grateful to welcome Dr. Graham as Redeemer’s new President. If you are on campus, please take a few minutes to welcome him to the Redeemer community. We look forward to working with him.

This past May, we successfully ran our first ever Alumni Council election, with thanks to the many alumni that participated! We are happy to welcome Leanna Petrusma ’18 and Luke McKee ’14 as the newest members of our Alumni Council. If you are interested in running next year or want to know more information about what we do, you can visit the Alumni Association page.

As always, if you’ve moved, gotten married, or had a new baby (and future Redeemer student!?), please reach out and let us know. We’d love to celebrate these milestones with you! We can be reached at alumni@redeemer.ca, or you can fill out the alumni update form.

Kristel Forcier
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