The results of our slogan contest are in and the winner is:

Thanks to everyone who logged in to the website and expressed a preference. We will soon be adorning our slogan on shirts, hats, glasses, and anything else that will hold still long enough.

Time to start thinking about our next Reunion! The official date is October 17, 2009. Classes to be honored are:
Class of 2004 (5 year)
Class of 1999 (10 year)
Class of 1994 (15 year)

We will plan to pool resources and have combined reunion events. Of course everyone is welcome no matter when or if you graduated.

If you are interested in helping plan and coordinate this year’s events, your help would be much appreciated! Please email as soon as you can. There’s a planning meeting happening soon and they’ll give you all the details.

As we start gearing up the planning of the next reunion it becomes blatantly apparent how important it is to have updated information on the TAMS Alumni Association Website. The Alumni Association uses this information to allow fellow alumni to contact each other, as well as to send you specific information pertaining to chapter meetings happening in your area, or regarding your next reunion, whether that is a 5, 10, 15, or 20-year reunion.

It’s easy to update your information, simply log on to http://www.tamsalumni.org/ then on the left navigation bar, select “Your Profile” under the User Menu header.

Dr. Sinclair wants a Piece of You!
Or really, a pennant from you.

As an alumni organization, it is our privilege and responsibility to engage in silly projects (We like to think of them as Great Works.) that awake nostalgia and warm fuzzy feelings. Towards that I propose our first Great Work: The Pennant Project. Over the years, we have spread out far and wide across the galaxy and continued our education beyond TAMS. It's time to send a little piece for that adventure home, to the captain of the ship HMS McConnell, Dr. Sinclair.

So dig up a school pennant for each degree, certificate, or dog grooming license. Then write your name, TAMS class year, and the degree and year for the pennant school. Our highly scientific research tells us that most pennants cost around $3. That's a small price to pay for deluging one nice man in an avalanche of unsolicited mail, don't you think? Once you're done it's ready for mailing off to Dr. Sinclair at:

We elected two new board members at the beginning if the year: John Noe and John Oberg. Please help us welcome them! We try to elect two new board members every year to serve for a three year term.

About John Noe:
John is a part of TAMS Class of 1999. He is 27 and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2002 with a BS in Biomedical/Electrical Engineering. John has also completed an MS in Biotechnology at the University of Texas San Antonio in 2007. He has worked for Mission Pharmacal Company, a San Antonio-based pharmaceutical company, for over 6 years and is currently the Technical Services Department Supervisor. His responsibilities include overseeing departmental functions that include process and cleaning validations, process optimization, process transfer from R&D, equipment qualification, and FDA compliance for both in house and contract manufacturing products.

About John Oberg:
John was born and raised in Dickinson, Texas, a small town near Galveston. He’s an 2003 TAMS graduate, and was heavily involved in student activities (senior mentor, Future Business Leaders of America, etc.). After graduating TAMS, he attended UT-Austin, majoring in the Business Honors/Finance program. As a student, he rowed for Texas Crew, the club rowing program on campus. He currently works in J.P. Morgan's investment bank in New York but will be joining Riverstone, an energy private equity firm, this summer in Houston. His interests include personal investing, history, politics and endurance sports.

Help out a poor, broke nerdling and stick it to the IRS all for one low price! The total for room, board, and the program charge is now almost $7,500 per year. Ouch! But through the miracle of selfless acts of good and compounding interest, if every TAMS Alumni coughed up $50 once (ONCE), we could have enough to make a scholarship that would send one kid to TAMS every year for free. Forever. That's a whole lot of good karma for the cost of a tank of gas.

But wait! There's more! In addition to that warm fuzzy feeling of personal righteousness, any donations to TAMS Alumni Association are tax-deductible. And who doesn't like keeping money from the tax-man? All donations go to a fund set up with the UNT Foundation.