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Kentucky Alumni Association Stories/Videos
By Hal MorrisUK Alumni Association Donna Arnett makes no bones about her goals for the UK College of Public Health. "We're a very ambitious college with a very ambitious agenda," says Arnett, the college's dean since 2016. UK College of Public Health Dean Donna Arnett The COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to derail that agenda,...
Bay Area legends the Grateful Dead once sang "what a long, strange trip it's been." UK alumnus Wilder Treadway had his own long, strange trip with another Bay Area legend this past basketball season. Treadway, who graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in integrated strategic communications from the UK College of Communication and Information,...
Alex Otte was not sure what her future held. A near-fatal boating crash due to an intoxicated boater turned her world upside down but also gave her a new purpose in life. Otte, who earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in political science from UK in December 2018, made history as the youngest...
By Hal MorrisUK Alumni Association Greg Page was going to make history at the University of Kentucky.One of the first two African-American football players - along with Nate Northington - to sign with a Southeastern Conference School, Page never got to see his dream become a reality.
Cover story on the UK Classes of 1970 and 2020
The UK classes of 1970 and 2020 will forever be connected, both denied a chance to walk across the stage and celebrate their accomplishments at their respective commencements. The Class of 1970 Golden Wildcat Reunion Committee wrote a letter to the Class of 2020, encouraging UK’s newest graduates and reminding them to think of all the good times they had in their years in Lexington.
Recipients of the UK Alumni Association Scholarship thank the donors in this November 2020 video.
UK Alumni Association Board of Directors Scholarship Video, September 2020
Dr. Ed Shuttleworth '69 AS, '73 MED found his calling at an early age. A childhood injury, and how it was treated by his local doctor, set Shuttleworth on his path toward a career as a surgeon in his own small town - a career he loved for more than 30 years.
Note: The UK Alumni Band held its annual reunion this past weekend, with a reception Friday night and a tailgate and halftime performance on Saturday. It was also the 50th anniversary of Harry Clarke taking over as director of the Wildcat Marching Band. He recently spoke with us about taking over the band in 1968....
David Shelton '66 BE equates awarding scholarships to investing in the stock market. Then consider the Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club bullish on Anna von Schmeling. The UK senior, who graduates in May with a bachelor's degree in integrated strategic communications, von Schmeling is the only student the club has awarded a scholarship for all...
Even as bucket list items, trying to pick a favorite Traveling Wildcats trip has proven to be an almost impossible task for University of Kentucky alumni George and Valerie Wright. The Wrights have taken four tours with Traveling Wildcats over the years - Sicily, the Galapagos Islands, Alaska and Churchill, Canada.
Brian Gorrell had given a quarter century to the UK Alumni Pep Band as its director. Now he figured it was time for someone else to take the reins. Gorrell led the band for the last time at Kentucky's Jan. 11 game against Alabama, capping a 25year run leading a band that not only...
For job seekers, there are many benefits to attending the bimonthly meetings of the Central Kentucky Job Club. But mostly, said panelists at the May 28 meeting, Job Club gives attendees a sense of community, a support group for job seekers. "It was my lifeline to talk with human beings," says Anita Brubeck '83 CI,...
For a trip that comes around just every 10 years, the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany could literally be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Lu Ann Holmes, a 1979 graduate from the College of Design, made it her mission to see the play with her mother.
The skills needed to secure a job in today's market are not the same ones used even five years ago. The UK Alumni Association Career Services, UK Human Resources Career Development and Fayette County Extension Service combined their unique expertise to create the Job Club. Job seekers and employers alike attend Job Club meetings.
By Hal Morris It's not really how a student learns as much as it is that they simply learn. That is what is important to Ashley Lamb-Sinclair '05 '06 ED. "I really think it has to do with my approach to education and how I view what education should be," says Lamb-Sinclair, an English and creative writing teacher at North Oldham High School in Goshen.
By Hal Morris When Taylor Blair '13 ED was a student at the University of Kentucky, he helped welcome prospective students on their campus tours. And he learned one thing: Above all else, the student comes first. He's taken that motto into his role as director of the University of Kentucky Visitor Center.
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Danville Advocate-Messenger
Ten years ago, two little third graders made their debut for the Danville track team. Now Diamond Pace and Kaitlin Snapp are ready to close out their decade on the Admirals track team at the Class A championships on Thursday in Louisville. "It's really crazy.