Welcome, Alumni!                                                                          

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Make SJC a part of your summer plans at ALF
The Alumni Leadership Forum (ALF), an annual event founded in 2010, features workshops, trainings, and programs that bring together St. John's alumni, faculty, and administrators for a working weekend, during which college staff share current goals and let alumni know how we can support programs in Admissions, Career Services, and Alumni Giving. ALF rotates each year between the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses, and all alumni are invited to attend. Your contributions are invaluable. This year's ALF is Friday, June 6, through Sunday, June 8, in Annapolis. Read more.

ALF Opportunity Grants
St. John's College Alumni Association will award five to 10 Opportunity Grants of $250 or $500 each to alumni for the purpose of attending the 2014 Alumni Leadership Forum. This financial support is intended to help offset travel, lodging, additional meals, and incidentals. Selection for the grant will be based on applicant interest in volunteering, demographic data, and financial need. Please email the completed applicaton to sarah.palacios@sjc.edu by March 31, 2014. Click here for the 2014 Opportunity Grant application.

Annual Meeting of the St. John’s College Alumni Association
The 2014 annual meeting of the St. John’s College Alumni Association is Sunday, June 8, 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. on the Annapolis campus of St. John’s College. The annual meeting will be held during the Alumni Leadership Forum taking place over the weekend of June 8–9 and is open to all alumni, students, faculty, and staff.  During the meeting, alumni will learn about the current state of the association and will vote on new directors and a member of the college’s Board of Visitors and Governors.

St. John’s Comes to New York City
Alumni, parents, and friends are invited to join Annapolis President Christopher B. Nelson and Santa Fe President Michael P. Peters for a gathering in New York City on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at The Down Town Association (60 Pine Street). The reception is from 4–6 p.m. and is preceded by seminars on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” led by Presidents Nelson and Peters, from 2:30–4 p.m. The seminar is complimentary with the purchase of a reception ticket. Seating is limited to 20 participants per seminar, so please reserve your space early if you would like to participate in the conversation. Tickets are $35/$25 for recent alumni (2003–2013). To purchase tickets, please register online. Questions? call 410-626-2536.

The Alumni Office is now on Twitter. Please follow us!

Tis the Season for Senior Orals!
The first photo on this page is a senior oral in the King William Room of the Barr-Buchanan Center in Annapolis, from the college archives. The second photo is of 2013 graduates Karolina Richterova, Hannah Crepps, and Alicia Dondo celebrating the success of Ms. Dondo’s oral with the traditional champagne toast on the Meem Library placita. Photo by Chesirae Valentine (SF13).

Alumnus is Google AdWords Wizard
After retiring in Maui, Stephen “Sunny” Hills (SF78) became a certified professional life coach and a Google AdWords wizard. With a client waiting list of 75 companies, Hills uses his marketing savvy—and his mind—to live the good life. Read more.

St. John's College Email Domains are Changing
St. John’s College is in the process of changing its email. All college email addresses are now  myname@sjc.edu. (The Santa Fe campus email domain name has traditionally been myname@sjcsf.edu, and the Annapolis domain name was myname@sjca.edu.) Both old and new email addresses will work until September 20, 2014, after which time the old domains will not work. The Communications offices and IT are facilitating the change.

Piraeus 2014 – Continuing the Conversation
Piraeus is a series of mini-seminars held specifically for alumni. Whether you graduated last year or 50 years ago, Piraeus is your chance to stimulate your mind in the company of other Johnnies and recapture the magic of seminar. The next session of Piraeus 2014, on selected poems of Robert Frost, will be in Annapolis, May 29–June 1, led by Eva Brann (H89) and Lise van Boxel. The same weekend in Annapolis, Tom May and David Townsend will lead seminars on Dante’s Vita Nuova & Inferno. The last session of Piraeus 2014 takes place in Santa Fe, August 3–8, with Plutarch’s Lives, led by Jim Carey (A67) and Marsaura Shukla (A93). Registration is now open for the upcoming sessions; if you have any questions, please contact the Alumni Office (see below).

SAVE THE DATE for next year's Homecoming: Annapolis, September 12–14, 2014 | Santa Fe September 19–21, 2014

Remembering Santa Fe tutor Laurence Nee (Please click here)

Alumni Social Media Directory

Alumni Offices Contact Information:

Annapolis
Leo Pickens (A78)
director of Alumni Relations, 410-295-6926, leo.pickens@sjc.edu

Torii Campbell
assistant director of Alumni Relations for Regional Programs, 410-972-4518, torii.campbell@sjc.edu  

Dolores Strissel
manager of Alumni Activities, 410-626-2531, dolores.strissel@sjc.edu

Anna Perry (A11)
coordinator of Young Alumni Programs, 410-295-5532, anna.perry@sjc.edu

St. John's College Alumni Office, 60 College Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401, 410-626-2531, alumni@sjc.edu

Santa Fe
Sarah Palacios
director of Alumni Relations, 505-984-6103, sarah.palacios@sjc.edu

Chris Aamot (SF04)
associate director of Alumni Relations, 505-984-6114, caamot@sjc.edu

St. John's College Alumni Office, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87505-4599, 505-984-6103, alumni@sjc.edu