Logging in gets you access! Online Directory, Photo Albums, emailing and more! Haven't yet joined? Just click " First Time Login" and enter your last name followed by your Constituent ID (Contact the NU Alumni Office: alumni@norwich.edu). See which of your classmates and friends are already online at www.alumni.norwich.edu! November is a very busy month!
Whether you are in Northfield, Vermont, Washington, D.C., or Utica, N.Y., there's an NU event for you! Be sure to check out the full event calendar early and often at www.alumni.norwich.edu/events. There is always something Norwich going on around the corner and around the world: where you live, travel or vacation! Happy hour socials, pre-game get-togethers, monthly lunches, fall brunches! Always find the latest event information at www.alumni.norwich.edu/events.
  
 Norwich University announces improved job-posting site This is a FREE SERVICE from Norwich University, offered to select employers. We would love to have your job postings on our new site! As an employer, you are an important asset to Norwich University and its students. The Career Development Center at Norwich University has launched a powerful tool to help you connect and engage with our students and alumni, both on campus and around the world! We would like to invite you to be one of the employers on our new online home. Continued at www.alumni.norwich.edu/CDClogin... Take advantage of your employer's matching gift program So you've just dropped a gift to Norwich into the mail and now you're considering which item to tackle next on your to-do list - mowing the yard or washing your car. Before moving on to that chore, take a moment to learn if your employer operates a matching gift program. If it does, you may be able to double your gift to the University. Continued at www.alumni.norwich.edu/
matchinggifts Tanya SterbaAdded: 11/1/2008 10:28 AM Reunions and Random Sightings Start thinking about our reunion. It is...
Jennifer McGinleyAdded: 10/13/2008 2:01 PM Reunions and Random Sightings Jenny McGinley '99 and Michael Delauro '...
Dorothy LowryAdded: 10/15/2008 9:34 AM Reunions and Random Sightings The picture is of the Norwich Army ROTC ...
Glenn JensenAdded: 8/20/2008 3:24 PM Reunions and Random Sightings I am a Series Commander in Bravo Compa...
Lip HorAdded: 6/25/2008 2:57 PM Reunions and Random Sightings Lip Tek Hor '81, and his wife Siew Hoay,...
Kenneth StorzAdded: 6/25/2008 7:42 AM Reunions and Random Sightings Class of '78 and '81 Grads Meet at Holid...
Elizabeth BarkerAdded: 6/11/2008 11:20 AM Reunions and Random Sightings From SalemNews.com. By Paul Leighton, St...
Michael PhelanAdded: 6/11/2008 11:18 AM Reunions and Random Sightings From SalemNews.com. By Paul Leighton, S...
Peter DaddonaAdded: 6/6/2008 1:21 PM Reunions and Random Sightings This picture was taken at the NMCB 27 Ch... |
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November 2008 Vol. 6 · Issue 6
Hello, welcome to the Norwich Enews, your direct link to campus and the entire Norwich Family! Delivered to your inbox monthly, each issue provides a sampling of news, information and features now available to you on our new Online Community. We hope you will use this exciting new tool to connect with the University, classmates, friends, and other Norwich Parents and Families.
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 In Command: Q&A With Lt. Col. Robert D. Burke
Few are given the opportunity to command a battalion in a combat zone. And to be a commander is, arguably, the highlight of an officer's career. For Lt. Col. Robert Burke '89, squadron commander of 1st Squadron, 152nd Cavalry Recon, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition, service and commanding have been a part of his life since birth.
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In "The Box": 2006 grad plays war games for real
As a young boy, Patrick J. Halloran '06 dreamed of being in the Army, building tanks with his Legos and drawing battle scenes with his crayons. He played army in the woods behind his home, slipping into battle dress uniform and covering his face in war paint. Now a 23-year-old Army first lieutenant, Halloran is still playing dress-up. His first assignment from the Army was to grow a beard and impersonate an Iraqi while stationed in California's Mojave Desert. Halloran is garrisoned at "The Box," a training center in Fort Irwin, Calif., where several simulated Iraqi villages are scattered over an area the size of Rhode Island to create a realistic training environment.
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A Silver Star for 2003 alumnus
The deadly, close-range firefight that destroyed Capt. Gianoulis ("John") Roussos' armored Humvee in southwestern Iraq lasted no more than 90 seconds. Roussos put his own life on the line as he bolted from the Humvee to draw fire away from the four men under his command in the crippled vehicle, gunning down two of the insurgents along the way in the bloody March 7 encounter. The maneuver earned the Princeton, N.J. native the Silver Star Medal.
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Alumnus' latest book brings Churchill's military life to light
In his latest book, "Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945", esteemed military historian and biographer Carlo D'Este '58 takes a novel approach to the one of World War II's most written-about subjects.
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The University has received word of the deaths of the following individuals. Complete obituaries, if available, can be found by clicking on the links. For more information, or to notify the University of a recent passing, please contact pgilbert@norwich.edu. In MemoriamClass of 1941 - Mirle Amory Kellet, M.D., 88, of York Harbor, ME, 6/17/2008 Class of 1945 - Leslie M. Curtis, D.M.D., 85, of Winchester, MA, 6/27/2008 Class of 1949 - William H. Wilson Jr., 83, of Marstons Mills, MA, 9/28/2008 Class of 1964 - Robert N. Leary, of Roxbury, VT, 10/2/2008 Class of 1984 - Leonard Bellino, 46, of Wilmington, MA, 9/30/2008 School of Graduate Studies Class of 2006 - MJA program - Kurt E. Nagel, 57, of Romeoville, IL, 9/8/2008 ObituariesThe Norwich University CemeteryThe Ernest Harmon Memorial Wall |