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Your Alumni Association TodayParis & New York, Dec 1, 2006Happy Holidays from your classmates and friends. The Alumni Association of the Lycée Français de New York (AALFNY) was founded and incorporated in 1964. When it became independent of the school in 2000, its Council members decided to reinvent the organization as a vehicle for serving the larger worldwide community of alumni, by becoming a contact mechanism, promulgating news of its members, offering other services, and taking full advantage of the benefits offered by a rapidly growing Internet. From the first website that, at that time, merely listed some 200 people whose email addresses were available upon request, we now have a totally redesigned website, linked to a secure database where we store all alumni-related information. The results? As of today, our data base contains the names and class years of 7,775 alumni and ex-professors/staff. In our spare time, we continue to laboriously pore through our collection of yearbooks, which goes back to 1943, and our ultimate goal is to list the entire 15,000 or so students who ever attended the Lycée. We have email addresses for 2,409 people, and an additional 677 home addresses for people we cannot contact via email, for a total of 3,086 people we can put in touch with each other one way or another. Over the years, we have received hundreds of inquiries from alumni using our 'Find a Classmate' service. Over the past year, we have also received many inquiries from non-Lycée people who 'Google' their friends, find their names at our website, and then ask us for their email address. (In such cases, we forward the inquiries. Please see our Privacy Policy for more details.) Recently, we were amazed to receive a communication from the Washington D.C. Lycée's alumni organization which offered to share several email addresses of students who had attended our school and theirs. This newsletter is also, we think, reflective of our success in keeping the members of the alumni community in touch with one other: About 130 people wrote to us this time, sending us their news, In Memoriam statements, articles, poems, etc. The newsletter contains, in addition, some 50 updates on alumni and ex-professors/staff that we gleaned from the Internet. And, since our last newsletter, our alumni community has celebrated several marriages, new babies, reunions, and even a Goncourt prize, all reported herein. All in all, we think that we are now where we planned on being six years ago. But we need your involvement to continue to grow and to serve the community. So please, help by sending us your messages for your classmates and other newsletter input, assist us by sending us the email addresses of people you have stayed in touch with (see our A la Recherche des Anciens Perdus newsletter section) and especially, help us by responding when we ask you if you have the email address of a person who might be a sibling or a friend. We hope you will enjoy this newsletter, and here's to a peaceful and healthy 2007! Roger Liwer '68 & Alessandra Gagliardi '86 |
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