Welcome from the HAA President

Welcome from Ellen Gordon Reeves AB '83, EdM '86

Welcome to the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), and a special welcome to the Class of 2015!

This is an exciting year for the HAA, as Harvard marks its 375th Birthday. We hope you’ll help us celebrate wherever you are!  Let this milestone provide an excuse to reach out and connect—to friends and classmates, to the university and its amazing resources, to undergraduates, and to other alumni. Help us make Harvard happen.  As I told Seniors on Class Day in May, if there are two alums in a room—even a virtual one—it’s a reunion. Don’t wait five years to come back to Cambridge. Harvard is where YOU are!

This year alone, nearly 24,000 alumni volunteers shared their time and talents with one another and with the University. Here are just a few of the ways you can get involved:

• Join one or more of the 200+ Harvard Clubs and Shared Interest Groups;
• Become an alumni interviewer—last year, alumni interviewed a record-breaking number of over 30,000 Harvard College applicants;
• Travel with the HAA on one of the 50 travel programs offered each year to all seven continents;
• Attend in Cambridge or listen online to one of the 30 or more learning and social programs offered by the HAA Alumni Education department;
• Return to Harvard to enjoy your reunion and take part in Commencement activities—this past year over 6,700 alumni and guests returned for Harvard College reunion events and even more attended graduate school reunion programs and Commencement activities;
• Check out Crimson Compass if you are considering applying to graduate school, changing careers, or have advice to share with a fellow alumna/us or students—there are currently over 15,000 alumni volunteering to share their professional experience and expertise; or
• Connect with others who are joining Harvard’s public service community around the world by participating in the HAA’s public service efforts particularly, during the Global Month of Service in April—last year, approximately 1,000 alumni served in local organizations.

Like many of us, once you become involved with HAA activities, you will find yourself celebrating old friendships and developing new ones as you continue along your Harvard journey. We welcome your feedback and are available to help you get connected. Stop by our offices or contact us at:

124 Mount Auburn Street, 6th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
haa@harvard.edu
617-495-5731

Help us make Harvard happen. Connect with other alumni today. Remember: Harvard is where YOU are!

With best wishes,
Ellen Gordon Reeves AB'83, EdM'86
HAA President, 2011 - 2012

Read the “Harvard Is Where You Are” Harvard Magazine profile of Ellen (fall 2011).