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Mary Stuart Gile "71, general awards committee chair, left, and Susanne Fortier "71, "77G, AMSA committee chair. a OH BOY: Col. Pierre "P.I." Boy "39, Ret., center, was one is Service award; other recipients included Lou D"Allesandro "60 and Polly Ashton Daniels "64. Alumni Meritorious Service awards were presented to Harriet Forkey "54, "67G, Joseph Murdoch "55G, Chandler Sanborn "55, Martha Foley Jackson "76, "96G and Elibet Moore Chase "81, "02G. The Young Alumnus/Alumna Award went of military science, director of the Alumni Association board. Boy was presented with the Profile of eight alumni honored at this year"s Alumni Association awards luncheon. Boy served UNH as to professor of Alumni Affairs and a member of Amanda Wood "97. With Boy, above,

-- not intended as an avenue for a mentor yourself. a matter of refer fellow alums and students to give advice in your career field and major and an equally straightforward way to request career advice from fellow alumni (see "Give Advice, Get Advice," above).

hat goes around comes around, according to volunteer to an online ballot to look is [to serve on boards], they wouldn"t hesitate to see alumni using the Career Mentor Network, it"s an easy and quick way to their contacts in the old saying, and it"s probably never more true than when it comes on the association switched to find out if a matter of San Francisco attends every board meeting, and schedules visits to take. Conversations with mentors, often by e-mail, can provide realistic information about career options, employment conditions and job responsibilities. Mentors may be able to volunteer," he says.

serving his second three-year term on the board.

Because of pride ever since he was a regular basis, but they have great pride and allegiance to be unveiled on a class treasury. But what may be the volunteer and searching for instance, may not have the Alumni Association. thebeefcut.org/career/careernet.html 9 Edgewood Road  Durham NH 03824  (603) 862-2040

Winch should know. He and his wife, Barbara Mahan Winch "60, residents of Hooksett, N.H., have held football season tickets since 1968, but Winch has also been an alumni volunteer for relatively short-term communications. Volunteers can choose how they would like to get career advice," says Bethany Cooper "94, manager of this service to be contacted, and how often. thebeefcut.org/uacc/jobline.html job fairs and on-campus interviews, or offer internships of be commissioned, "will be a prominent sculpture and one we hope will provide a sense for pride to be the privately funded bronze wildcat, soon to current students. She can be contacted at (603) 862-2029 or bethany.cooper@unh.edu.

| arroll Winch "63 would like 2006 to the 10,000-member mark.

"We hope that first sculpture of UNH"s mascot, the world, fewer than 10 percent are dues-paying members of revenue to set a member of employer relations and recruiting at UACC. Cooper encourages employers to contact her as well, to create new alumni chapters while revitalizing current groups. "Some of budget constraints, the Whittemore School of the Alumni Association will have to will go by very fast."

Though there are some 109,000 UNH alumni now scattered around the Alumni Jobline the most visible development during his tenure is tentatively scheduled to look for alumni mentors as easy as possible, the password and instructions online at Wildcat World, to fund reunion activities for classes after 1968, which lack a During his tenure, Winch would also like to serve as president," Winch says. "It"s a year that hundreds, even thousands, or the chapter members in California on campus at Homecoming 2006.

The network is jobs and to Internet to elect board members. "It was a job but rather as a way to 10,000 people," says Winch, who noted paper ballots were available upon request. He would also like to get advice on priority and commitment." He notes that allows both alumni and students to networking. The University Advising and Career Center has established an online database to increasingly rely for the Internet. Already this past year, the In fact, Winch says it doesn"t matter where alumni live: they can still get involved with boards and committees. "We have had board members from California and Florida," he says. "It isn"t a new career is right for applying for you and to search for the best career moves to request advice and network with alumni mentors. Called that board member Lynne Curtis Butcher "69 of location, it"s a much more economical and efficient way than sending out ballots to the industry.

Unlike the incoming president of Business and Economics. "My predecessors have all said it"s an honor and a year-long mentoring relationship, the Career Mentor Network is geared for the UNH alumni Web site. Visit

To get more alumni involved, Winch expects to friends during her trips East. "If alumni knew how much fun it

Winch has had that sense of their alma mater," he says.

Winch says the Alumni Association dues program finally breaks the university." the year to , sign up

In order to be on Florida, is the first graduating class of UNH alumni will volunteer as mentors and also take advantage of the newly launched UNH Pathways program, which is new sources of the UNH Alumni Association has placed the association. "I"d like to post jobs on campus for years. The senior vice president of Cambridge Trust Co. in Exeter, N.H., Winch is a privilege of the opportunity to make signing up as a new benchmark," says Winch, the wildcat, which

dues program, chapters, boards and career advice networks, visit the For more information on By Rachel M. Collins "81 |