University celebrates 2008 Alumni Weekend & Homecoming
Thank you to all alumni, family members and friends who participated in the 2008 Alumni Weekend and Homecoming on October 2-5.
Many wonderful re-connections were made, new friendships formed and endless possibilities emerged
as a result of the most collective university Alumni Weekend and Homecoming effort in the history
of Case Western Reserve University.
Here are just a few of the highlights from the 2008 Alumni Weekend and Homecoming activities:
The African American Alumni Reunion returned to campus for their reunion in almost a decade
The CWRU/CIM Join Music Program celebrated its 40th Anniversary with its first-ever reunion celebration
The Weatherhead School of Management
MOD/MPOD Reunion programming had over 100 attendees
The College of Arts and Sciences hosted over 6 different events across the campus and the weekend
GospelFest participants performed to a sold-out crowd
Don't forget to put next year's Alumni Weekend and Homecoming, October 22-25, 2009, on your calendar today! We look forward to another spectacular Alumni Weekend and Homecoming experience.
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University News and Highlights
The Alumni  Association of Case Western Reserve University Awards 2nd Annual Distinguished
Alumni Award
On October 3 during The Grand Classes Luncheon
held at Adelbert
Gymnasium, the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University awarded its 2nd Annual Distinguished Alumni Award to Lawrence (Larry) Sears, CIT'69.
Larry Sears is an undergraduate alumnus from Case Institute of Technology and founder of Hexagram Inc.,
a Cleveland-based electronics company that designs wireless meter-reading systems for utility companies. In 2006, he and his wife, Sally Zlotnick Sears, FSM74, LYS'74, gifted $5.9 million dollars to fund the Sears Undergraduate Design Laboratory at the Case School
of Engineering. The facility provides students with superior technical resources that enhance the school's core educational mission while raising the level of visibility of the department of electrical engineering
and computer science (EECS).
Regarding the selection process, Dr. Laura Nosek, NUR’61, NUR’81, GRS’86, chair of the alumni association awards committee said, “From among numerous highly deserving alumni, Larry emerged as a man who changed lives through his invention of censors that allow utility meters to be read from remote locations.
In addition, he has changed the lives of more students than we can imagine through his untiring volunteer mentoring and teaching activities with students.”
The above photograph features Alumni Association board members Nancy Fink, WRC'73, Laura Nosek, NUR'61, NUR'81, GRS'86, and award recipient Larry Sears, CIT'69.
This November, Case Western Reserve University will introduce its new magazine, Think.
 At Case Western Reserve University, thought and ideas are at the heart of everything we do. That's why we created Think—to highlight these ideas and the people who generate them.
This biannual publication will offer thought-provoking content that is as intelligent as its readers, and its bold design aspires to be as innovative and forward thinking as the university itself.
Think's purpose is to inform, entertain, engage and, above all, to stimulate. Keep an eye out for this new magazine and be sure to let us know what you think.
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Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association Makes $5 million Commitment to Case Western Reserve
The Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association of Case Western Reserve University will distribute its remaining endowment in a series of gifts to
Case Western Reserve University—a combined commitment of $5 million. The commitment was publicly announced on October 4, during the association's annual reunion tea honoring the fiftieth reunion class.
The commitment includes $2.6 million for scholarships, a $1 million challenge gift for the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, and nearly a dozen additional designations that support the performing arts, athletics, capital improvements and presidential investments.
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The Alumni House
 Dedicated during Alumni Weekend and Homecoming 2007, The Alumni House at Case Western Reserve University just celebrated its first anniversary as your home on campus.
In that year, over 100 events for alumni, students and the Cleveland community have been hosted in The Alumni House and over 2.500 alumni and friends have toured the beautifully renovated home on Juniper Rd.
Your generous donation to The Alumni House through the Annual Fund will help allow the university to maintain and upgrade this special venue as needed over the course of time.
Please support The Alumni House today by making a gift to the Annual Fund and ensure that the next generations of students and alumni always have a home on campus.
IRA Rollovers: A Great Way to Give to the Annual Fund
The recently renewed federal charitable IRA legislation offers a great opportunity for Case Western Reserve donors aged 70-1/2 or older to make outright gifts from individual retirement accounts to the Annual Fund without tax complications.
Join dozens of other Case Western Reserve alumni and friends who have given over $2.4 million in IRA rollovers since 2006. Support today’s students and faculty and enjoy numerous tax advantages!
To learn more about making a gift to the Annual Fund through an IRA rollover, please contact John Shelley at 216-368-4460.
Dale A. Burke, D.D.S. '57 (pictured) took advantage of the original Pension Protection Act to make a leadership gift to the Dental School Annual Fund and other gifts totaling $50,000 in honor of his 50th Reunion.
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