alumni

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MacDonald said she enrolled in St. Michael’s in part because her parents are alumni, and she wanted to play lacrosse for the school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

“Are you going to go after alumni who have been calling it Memorial Stadium? No. So you didn’t focus on that. You focused on people that could be more impressionable, and it worked.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Growth will typically occur over a five-to-seven-year horizon once alumni outcomes become visible and employer acceptance for these students stabilises as enrolment decisions are increasingly outcome-driven in India, according to Ghosal.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Who knows how many alumni from Garfield are living in Sacramento or nearby, but they have been known to travel around the country to support their Bulldogs, especially if rival Roosevelt is the opponent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Paul Coughlin, president of the alumni association, started placing calls to some of the university’s more prominent graduates.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown