Your Alumni Newsletter
Volume 3, Issue 6
July/August 2009

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Cap the summer with Regional Alumni Network activities in your area

Thursday, August 6, 2009
MD Regional Alumni Network
Alumni Reception and Summer Send Off

Connect with fellow alumni in your area, meet a few current students and incoming freshmen and enjoy a lovely evening amidst the pristine beauty of the Greenspring Valley at the Chestnut Ridge Country Club. To register for this event, please click on
"Chestnut Ridge".

Friday, August 7, 2009
NY Regional Alumni Network

If you live, work or are visiting the Lake George area, please join us for an alumni reception at the beautiful Hiland Park Country Club. Hearty hors d'oeuvres will be served from 5:30 – 7:30 in the Club Room overlooking the golf course. Come early for golf if you can! To register for this event, please click on "Hiland Park".


Thursday, August 20, 2009
NY Regional Alumni Network
Alumni Welcome

Calling all New York Bryant Alumni - Come welcome our newest Alumni to the region! Join us for our 3rd Thursday kick-off gathering at the Galway Hooker. To register for this event, please click "Galway Hooker".

2009 Reunion @ Homecoming Update

Alumni Reunion Breakfast: Achieving Professional Goals
Saturday, October 3rd, 9 a.m., Bryant Center

Do you know where you’re going? What your goals and dreams are? Most importantly – how will you seek to achieve them? A breakfast seminar led by Bryant alumna Beth Carter ’85 will help you achieve your professional goals.

Enjoy meeting other Bryant alumni and creating your own career and life plan.  After breakfast, stop by the Amica Center for Career Education and get an overview of the career services available to alumni, or sign up for the Alumni Career Link to mentor current Bryant students.


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All Bulldog Pass purchasers will receive a valuable gift.

Reunion @ Homecoming planning is in full swing, with special activities planned for the classes ending in '4 or '9. In addition, a special all-Greek reunion will coincide with Bryant's traditional Reunion @ Homecoming celebration. Register early and reserve your local hotel room as space is filling up fast. View the schedule for a link to hotels with special rates when you mention "Bryant Alumni."

Reunion@Homecoming 2009 Schedule

Reunion@Homecoming 2009 Registration

Are you Linked in to Bryant?

Growing at the rate of 50 new alumni members per week, the Bryant University Alumni Association group on Linked In is a powerful force for networking, information sharing, and job searches.  A new feature that will allow alumni to join a subgroup provides a vehicle for alumni from similar industries and affinities to find one another and network in a more targeted way.

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Alumni Profile


Dog’s best friend: Kathryn (Jurewicz) Puishys ’81
Alumna chooses alternative to traditional business career and finds fulfillment with family life and community service.


When Kathi (Jurewicz) Puishys ’81 was a high school senior looking at colleges, she had just a couple of requirements. First, she wanted to attend a good business school; and second, the Wayne, New Jersey, native wanted the opportunity to experience a new community and meet new people.

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Alumni Profile

Rob ’90 and Paula Fox: The “Inn” Crowd
Alumnus achieves dream of owning his own business by converting 1870s farmhouse along Nubanusit River in New Hampshire into a bed and breakfast.


Long Island native Rob Fox ’90 came to Bryant in 1986 with a definite plan in mind: he was going to get a business degree and experience new things. “I made campus visits to at least eight universities, but the moment I drove onto Bryant’s campus, I knew it was where I wanted to go,” he says.

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Bryant young Entrepreneur Launches Under30CEO.com


An inspiration leader: Matt Wilson ’08
Alumnus uses personal and business experiences to motivate, advise, and encourage aspiring entrepreneurs.

New York entrepreneurs Matt Wilson ’08 and Jared O'Toole decided that terms like "down economy," "dreadful job market," and "poor outlook" were just too bleak for what this exciting world has to offer, so they created a magazine, http://Under30CEO.com, for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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Bryant Alumni Career Link
Connecting Students and Alumni for Job Information

The Amica Center for Career Education hosts the Bryant Alumni Career Link. This online database lists Bryant University alumni from various career fields and geographic locations who have volunteered to share their knowledge and expertise with interested students and alumni. Consider adding your name to our list and helping current and future Bryant students.

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AMICA Center for Career Education
(formerly Career Services)



The Job Source is a weekly list of available positions in a variety of fields published by the Amica Center and is available to alumni via email. To subscribe, send an email to the Amica Center for Career Education and ask to be put on the electronic distribution list.  For a complete list of the last month's Job Source listings, please click on "Job Openings" below.

July job openings >

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