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Connections • cmualum.com Join us for summer fun By Marcie Otteman, '87 Executive director of alumni relations Summertime and the living is easy! Or at least a little more laid back than the usual rush around campus that goes on here during the school year. But summer with Alumni Relations is hopping with activity, not only here in Mount Pleasant but also around the state of Michigan and the country. two "meet the President and First Lady" receptions in Atlanta and Detroit. Join the Alumni Relations staff at a variety of baseball games in June and July in Michigan and Chicago to see the "boys of summer" play. Also in June, we are excited to be a co-sponsor for the time trials for the Tour de Mont Pleasant bike race on campus. It will be exciting to watch the racers fly by at 40 mph. June holds many events, including Of course summer also brings us back to the golf course for the Great Lakes Bay Region and Traverse City Alumni outings, whose proceeds help fund scholarships for deserving future CMU students. We've got artistic and educational events, too, including Grandparents U, a three-day camp for Alumni and Friends of CMU and their 8- to 12-year-old grandchildren. This year we have quite a few new sessions added to the roster to give our attendees a wide variety of enjoyable experiences while on campus. We are going to see Jeff Daniels in concert both in Mount Pleasant and Grand Rapids in August, and several clubs and chapters have outings planned over the summer around the country. We are still working on the details of our "Greatest Generation" reunion Sept. 16-18 on campus. Details will be available soon, and we are looking forward to hosting those alums back on campus for a weekend of reminiscing and reacquainting! We'll be traveling this fall for CMU football to Kentucky, North Carolina and East Lansing. And be sure to mark your calendars for Homecoming on Oct. 15! The weekend will be filled with exciting and memorable events. You can sign up for any of these events and many more on the website, cmualum.com, or call the Alumni Relations office to register. Be sure to friend us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter as we will be "tweeting" live from all our events and posting pictures to both Facebook and Twitter. Calendar June 3 CMU Night at Great Lakes Loons Game, Midland 9 Meet the President Reception, Atlanta, Ga. 10 CMU Night at Comerica Park 10 Tour de Mont Pleasant bike race time trials, Mount Pleasant campus 16 Meet the President Reception, Detroit 16 CMU Night at the Lansing Lugnuts baseball game 22 through 24 Grandparents U, Mount Pleasant campus 27 Great Lakes Bay Region Golf Outing and Dinner, Apple Mountain Golf Club, Freeland July 18 The CMU Thomas "Bud" Moore Scholarship Open, Traverse City Golf & Country Club, Traverse City 22 CMU Chicago and Goose Island Alumni Outing, Goose Island and Wrigley Field, Chicago August 20 Jeff Daniels at Max and Emily's Summer Concert Series, downtown Mount Pleasant 21 An afternoon with Jeff Daniels, Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids September 1 CMU Football home opener, Mount Pleasant campus 17 Fall into Jazz, Powers Ballroom, Mount Pleasant campus 16-18 60- to 65-year Reunion, Mount Pleasant campus 27 Meet the President Event in the Great Lakes Bay Region October 15 Homecoming, Mount Pleasant campus centralight summer '11 3333

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