Your Alumni Newsletter
Volume 4, Issue 7
September 2010

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Bryant Spirit Day
Pull out that Bryant sweatshirt or t-shirt from your closet!


Bryant’s Reunion @ Homecoming will bring hundreds of alumni and their families back to campus the weekend of October 8-10.  We hope everyone will celebrate the day and sport your Bryant pride by wearing that special Bryant t-shirt, hat or sweatshirt on Saturday, October 9. 

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Alumni Helping Alumni
On the MOVE to end Alzheimer's




Brittany Slater '10 and her grandfather,
Gerard A. Juaire '59



Join Brittany and other alumni and friends to raise money for Alzheimer's Disease, and to recognize one very special Bryant alumnus, her grandfather Gerard A. Juaire, Class of 1959.

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Alumni Profile


Finding a niche in which to prosper:
Alan Duro ’07
Entrepreneurial alumnus recognizes great business opportunity while still in college and helps grow thriving company providing dorm room essentials.

Alan Duro ’07 admits he hadn’t really thought much about the spartan furnishings provided in a dorm room before going to college. “Bryant’s partnership with a company that provided the room essentials opened my eyes to the need for dorm-room related products,” he says.

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Alumni Profile


Planning for the future:
Kimberly (Murray) Butler ’89, ’97 MBA
Alumna finds her passion helping others create a charitable legacy for Bryant.



When Kim (Murray) Butler ’89, ’97 MBA was a little girl, she watched her mother walk out the door in her business suit every morning, off to her job as Treasurer and Controller at J.F. Moran. “Watching my mom put on her ‘power suit’ and set off to work as a respected corporate executive inspired me,” she says. “I always knew I wanted to get a degree in business because of her enthusiasm for her career.”

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Ringing in a New (Fundraising) Year
The Bryant Fund supports scholarships and student enrichment

A group of 30 talented and enthusiastic students, freshmen through seniors, will reach out to the Bryant community during evenings to update alumni on campus activities, academic accomplishments and to ask for support of The Bryant Fund.   

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President Machtley joins Alumni at Upcoming Regional Programs

As Bryant University begins its 148th year of educating young men and women for success, we invite you to join other alumni and friends to hear an update from President Machtley and celebrate the University’s achievements at three upcoming regional alumni events in Little Compton, Hartford, and Boston. 

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Headlines from Bryant

The Bryant Interfaith Center has won the 2010 Honor Design Award from Faith & Form magazine/The Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture. The award, presented in the category of Religious Architecture -- New Facilities, will be included in the winter awards issue of Faith & Form and will be exhibited at the American Institute of Architects national convention.

A group of Bryant marketing majors won the statewide competition to name Rhode Island's new transport hub. The new Intermodal facility at T.F. Green Airport will be known as the INTERLINK, according to the announcement from the Rhode Island Airport Corporation.

Associate Professor of Economics Edinaldo Tebaldi and Bryant alumni Lelani S. Bonner '06, Kevin M. Ricci '94 and David C. Sweet '05 are among the 40 Rhode Islanders selected by the Providence Business News to receive the 2010 "40 Under Forty" awards for their contributions to the state. In Connecticut, Dan O'Brien '03 was one of 40 similarly honored by the Hartford Business Journal's 2010 "40 Under Forty" award.

Bryant Football makes National Television Debut


The Northeast Conference announced their football television package for the 2010 season which marks the largest deal in conference history and will feature Bryant University vs. Monmouth University, October 16, 2010.


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Bryant's 2010 Football Season Tickets
Now Available!

Season tickets for the 2010 Bryant Bulldogs' football team are $64 for reserved seating and $48 for general admission; these tickets are a steal! Contact the Bryant University Ticket Office at (401) 232-6942, Ext. 2, or buy them online at www.bryantbulldogs.com (scroll to the bottom of the page for ticket link).

Join us on Bryant's campus for the home games or tailgate with us at Central Connecticut State, Wagner, and Monmouth.

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