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Energize your alumni experience

A letter from the ESU alumni association president

Some of the best years of my life happened as a student at Emporia State University. Coming from a small Kansas town, ESU provided so many different opportunities for growth as well as a place where I made memories that will last a lifetime. Since earning my second ESU degree in 1998, I have remained a loyal and proud alum. I regularly visit our ESU website where I’ve found some enlightening words that are appropriate in
describing ESU alumni.

Mobray

Enthusiasm & Energy — As ESU alumni, you are among more than 50,000 people holding an Emporia State University degree. ESU alumni share a passion and enthusiasm for their alma mater that I find inspiring. I love to come to an ESU home football game and see all the black and gold and tailgating in anticipation for the game. What spirit!

Encourage & Empower — Take time in your community to point potential students toward ESU. Encourage and empower them to check out the campus, academic programs and the Emporia community. Get involved with your local START (Students Through Alumni Recruitment Teams) program, visit ESU alumni teaching in your area, or find those special ways to move students in the right direction toward ESU.

Elevate & Enhance — There are so many ways as alumni to continue to elevate and
enhance Emporia State. Consider giving to Building Blocks for Success, the scholarship
campaign for students, or to an area on campus you hold close to your heart. Find ways to give back to campus by serving on the Alumni Board of Directors or being involved in your local alumni chapter. Better yet, START an alumni chapter in your area!

Explore & Envision — Take time to explore and envision the many ways you can remain
involved as proud alumni by giving back to the university that helped you get where you are today. There are so many things to be proud of as well as various “hidden” aspects of the university that we can still learn about today. I encourage each of you to embrace ESU, no matter how long it’s been since you walked the campus as a student. Giving back to ESU will help the campus excel, and it will also enrich your life more than you can imagine. I am so fortunate to serve as your Alumni Association president this year — it has been the opportunity of a lifetime. My wish for all ESU alumni is to have that feeling one gets by being part of something so powerful and contagious, a feeling that leads you right back to the heart of what started it... Emporia State University!

ESU always,

Kelly (Emig) Mobray (BFA 1996, MS 1998)

Salina, Kan.

See the story in the electronic magazine, page 2

Last Updated April 17, 2008