Subject: SUMCAA: You and the new Stanford Med Center Alumni Magazine

From: "Ross Bright, MD '58" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:44:19 -0700 (PDT)

<br>July 2007
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<b>You and the new Stanford Med Center Alumni Magazine!</b>

For the first time in 40 years, an alumni magazine is in the works for former medical students, graduate students, postdocs and residents at Stanford.  The first edition of <b>“Bench & Beside”</b> will be sent out before the end of the year and we are writing to you to ask for your help with something that we think will help make the magazine interesting to read.

The backbone of any alumni magazine is news of the comings and goings of the individual alumni. “Where did my classmate end up?  How has their career changed directions over the years?  Do they have kids?”  We think that we will all be surprised and excited to hear about our friends and acquaintances from medical school and training.

The key to gathering such news is the <b>class representative</b>.  Many alumni have volunteered to represent their class in the past, but there has been little activity for them to do and so our network has broken down.  In order to support the representatives, the Alumni Association will make mailing lists and materials available to enable them to ask for brief write-ups of information to submit to the alumni class notes, making the job easy.  The magazine will only publish three times a year, making this an infrequent, low hassle way to pitch-in.

One thing we are thinking about is helping class reps to align with their entering class rather than graduating class (since so many of you took varying amounts of time to graduate.)  And if you would like to represent several classes, that would work too!  

In the past, representatives have helped to round-up interest in reunions every 5 years.  So, the role can expand to the extent you wish.  But what is really important is getting some great news for our first issues of “Bench & Bedside.”

Please give it a try: respond to us that you would like to be a represent your class.  Just give us one year to help us do a great job in getting the magazine off the ground at Stanford, and see how being a rep fits into your busy life.

<b>Become a class representative!</b>  If you are already representing your class, please confirm that you would like to continue!

Jeff Bird, PhD ’88, MD ’92			
Sutter Hill Ventures				
Phone: 650.493.5600 				
Email: <a href="mailto:[email-masked]">[email-masked]</a> 				

Ross Bright, MD, ’58
Associate Dean of Alumni Affairs
Phone: 650.321.4025
Email: <a href="mailto:[email-masked]">[email-masked]</a> 	 

Please select reply and fill in the information below:

Name:
Email:
Phone:
Classes that I would like to serve as Class Rep. (entering or graduating year):

CONTACT:
Alumni Association Contact Information: 
Email: <a href="mailto:[email-masked]">[email-masked]</a>
<a href="http://med.stanford.edu/alumni/">med.stanford.edu/alumni</a>
2700 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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