Alumni!

As the Outlaws group began rebuilding large numbers in the past few years, our alumni from years past were never forgotten. Many individuals knew one or two past graduates and the connections were always very fruitful, if sporadic. In 2003, the ad hoc Constitutional Committee added a standing committee with the goal of creating more formal and widespread ties with our alumni.

When the new Outlaws Constitution was approved in 2004, the newly created committee began an effort to locate as many alumni as possible. This was done by networking with those we knew at the time, and, before long, a list of alumni and contact information has built up that stretched back more than 25 years.

Soon after the creation of the list, the committee worked to establish a periodic newsletter to keep alumni informed about the great things going on in the LGBT community at UMLS. In the future, we hope to see more active involvement of UMich Outlaws alumni in the newsletter itself--to keep our alumni informed about the great things going on in each others' lives and careers.

The goals of alumni outreach are many, but include career networking, resource sharing, admissions promotion, fund raising, and active sharing of all that goes on with the University of Michigan Law School Outlaws world. The efforts are fledgeling, but our hopes are high and our enthusiasm to build a real community is proving to be quite contagious.

We will soon be working to refine our information for each of the alumni already contacted and are always on the lookout for more alumni from any year, even those who did not benefit from the active group when there were at the law school and even those who did not have the luck to have an active group on campus when they were attending.

If you're an alumnus/alumna from UMLS, we hope you'll let us know how you're doing. It's very inspirational for current students to hear the life stories of those in whose footsteps we are walking. Please, take a moment and send us a message at alumni@umoutlaws.org. We look forward to hearing from you.

~the alumni committee.

Newsletters:

• August 2005 (current)
  
• February 2005