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First-ever Jumbo Alumni Service Day spans two coasts
July 15, 2010
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Approximately 50 alumni, family, and friends partook in the first-ever Jumbo Alumni Service Day, a multi-city, joint effort between the TUAA Student Issues and Alumni Committee and four regional chapters, spanning two coasts. The event was conceived as a way to unite alumni across cities in a day celebrating the active citizenship spirit of the university. In New York, volunteers spent the afternoon working with Partnership for the Parks at Pelham Parkway removing litter and repainting facilities.
Boston-based alumni aided the Charles River Conservatory in Herter Park to assist with cleanup along the Charles. In California, San Francisco volunteers served breakfast at lunch at Gilde Memorial Church in downtown SF, while their Los Angeles counterparts partook in a cleanup with Heal the Bay at TOES Beach. The SIA Committee, chaired by Jeff Katzin and Harsha Dronamraju, sees this as a new tradition that can bring together Tufts alumni of different ages and backgrounds to give back to the community.
Next year's chair, Dronamraju, explains, "The summer is a great time for people from all points of the Tufts experience--current students, alumni, parents, professors, and staff--to get together and do something in and for their own community."
Additionally, the event encourages different regional groups to collaborate with each other and strengthen their connections with the alumni association and the Office of Alumni Relations. The committee hopes this will become a new tradition, and based on the positive feedback, will plan to repeat the event next year.
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