VOLUME 23 #3

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From our Alumni Association

Alumni Association President Anne Giacoma Barretta

As a UD junior in 1982, I wrote the following words for the Blue Hen yearbook:

It’s a Saturday morning at the University of Delaware. The sun is bright, and the sky is an azure blue and dotted with fluffy white clouds.

Walking along the golden tree-lined Mall, one can hear the bells high atop Memorial Hall pealing the hour thorough the crisp air. It has always been this way at Delaware.

Although steeped in tradition, Delaware also adheres to many trends that all at once become popular, and then slowly fade away…there’s a little bit of everything and everybody here.

The combination of both trends and traditions constitutes a large part of the college experience here at the University of Delaware. They always have, and probably always will.

Thirty-three years later, I am amazed how much these words still resonate.

There’s so much that’s new at UD: the STAR Campus, the Harker Lab, the new Rodney dorms on Academy Street, the growth of Laird (formerly North) Campus. Students walk to class wearing earbuds with heads down, typing into their smart phones. Yet most still carry backpacks, play Frisbee on The Green (no longer called the Mall), laugh and wave to friends and meet in the dining hall for lunch or on Main Street for coffee. You can still catch a show at Mitchell Hall, watch a football game at Delaware Stadium or hear the carillon atop Memorial Hall play the alma mater at noon.

Much has changed at UD, but so much remains the same. I hope you were able to celebrate your fondest traditions at Homecoming and that you can make it back for Alumni Weekend! Come and visit campus to see for yourself all that has changed and all that never will.

Anne Giacoma Barretta, AS83
President, UD Alumni Association
@Angiabar

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