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New Alumni Association president set for first Homecoming

- October 13, 2015

The Dalhousie Alumni Association (DAA) has a new president and sheā€™s pumped for Homecoming 2015.

With fall in the air and preparations for Homecoming on the home stretch, newly-minted DAA president Courtney Larkin is jumping in with both feet.

ā€œHomecoming is my first major event in my new role and from what Iā€™ve seen of the lineup, it promises to be an awesome weekend,ā€ she says. ā€œIā€™m pumped to connect with as many alumni as possible and celebrate our Dalhousie community.ā€

The role of president of the DAA is a natural fit for Larkin, former Dalhousie Student Union president (2008-09), award-winning peer mentor and Progress Club of Halifax/Cornwallis Young Woman of Distinction award recipient (2012). An elected member of the DAA board since 2010, she says of her volunteerism, ā€œitā€™s just what I do.ā€

Larkin has a clear list of goals for her two-year term as DAA president.

ā€œI want to create an awareness that all alumni can stay engaged with each other and with students ā€” no matter where they are.ā€ This involves adding more cities to the chapters program and identifying initiatives where Dal alumni can connect to their communities. ā€œI would also love to see each faculty embrace mentoring in its own unique way.ā€

Her greatest challenge will be trying to connect with as many of Dalā€™s 125,000 alumni as she can. ā€œI may only have two years in this role, but I plan to stay involved. Dalhousie Homecoming weekend is a great place to start.ā€

Some of the events Larkin says sheā€™s looking forward to most are the Presidentā€™s Fun Run/Walk on Saturday, October 17th and the Concert on the Quad with Party Boots on Friday. ā€œOur new Dalhousie Alumni Halifax Chapter is also co-hosting an Alumni Lounge with Fusion Halifax right before the concert, complete with cash bar, appetizers and lively conversation.ā€

And for those looking to re-group with classmates from their Dal days, Faculties campus-wide are in party-mode. ā€œFrom breakfasts and golf tournies to lectures and awards gatherings, opportunities to re-connect at Homecoming run the gamut,ā€ says Larkin.

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