Alumni Association News A Note from the Alumni Association Executive Committee
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Haverford, the AAEC, and various alumni affinity groups have sought to provide resources and connections to help us navigate this new world.
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Dear Fellow Alumni, he past year has taken a toll on many of us: from the impact of COVID-19 on the health of our loved ones, to the economic fallout from the pandemic, to an increased intensity of political discord. On the positive side, we’ve also seen a heightened level of activity around racial justice and equity in the United States. And many of us have had Evan LeFlore ’06 Beverly Ortega Babers ’84 reasons to celebrate, from recent births and graduations to meeting personal challenges (like finally learning how to interaction, Haverford, the AAEC, and various make banana bread). All the while, the Alumni alumni affinity groups have sought to provide Association Executive Committee (AAEC) has resources and connections to help us navigate this continued its mission to strengthen relationships new world. For example, we have held a town between alumni and Haverford College, build hall for alumni of color, a forum to help parents connections across generations, and develop navigate changes in the college admissions avenues for alumni to support current students. process, and numerous professional networking events. We have also launched initiatives to Finding New Ways to Connect support the school’s antiracism efforts, including As the pandemic has made it necessary for through documenting the experiences of everyone to move to more digital forms of Haverford students across generations who
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A survey conducted by the AAEC identified the kind of information about the College and opportunities to connect that alumni respondents most value.
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