Alumni & Friends Gatherings

This fall, the Alumni Department hosted three Alumni and Friends Gatherings across New Brunswick. We chose this season to kick off these events because we wanted each event to have a theme of thanksgiving. We have so much to celebrate and be thankful for at Crandall University, and we know that the alumni and friends of Crandall are a huge part of the reason why we have been able to grow to where we are today.

Our first event at the Java Moose Coffee Shop in Rothesay was spent catching up with old friends, reminiscing about UBBTS, ABC, ABU, and Crandall and savouring freshly brewed coffee and decadent desserts. The event was attended by a great number of local alumni and the whole coffee shop was buzzing with laughter and chatter. In midOctober we welcomed more friends at the Odell Lodge in Fredericton, which was beautiful at the peak of fall. We spent the evening with our Fredericton area alumni eating desserts and enjoying the chance to get together after too long of being apart. "It’s so good to see you, it’s been too long" was the common phrase of the evening. Finally, for our third event we hosted a turkey dinner at Crandall University. The dinner was served 'open seating' style in our newly renovated dining room and the evening followed a casual, informal program that made the entire event feel like a Sunday supper with family. The dining room was filled with alumni and friends representing nearly every decade of Crandall's almost 75 year history. At the end of the evening, Crandall employees and student ambassadors offered tours of the campus and for many, this was their first time receiving a tour of Stultz Hall. With all the facility improvements that have been made over the last few years, it was great to show everyone what has been done to make our campus more welcoming.

Although these three events varied in things like venue and region, they all had one thing in common: friends gathering. Whether the fond memories being shared were of Salisbury Road or Gorge Road, it was obvious that lifelong bonds were formed during everyone's years of schooling. People who had not seen each other in 20 years were able to converse as if no time had passed.

After the success of these gatherings, we are so excited to plan more events of this nature going forward. We are already making plans to host events in other parts of Atlantic Canada, so make sure to stay tuned for details!

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