Madison Debaters Win at Big Ten Tournament
The MSU Debate team took top honors at the Big Ten Debate Championships at the end of October in Evanston, Illinois.  Madison seniors Abby Schirmer (IR, senior) and Jeremy Hammond (IR, senior) defeated Northwestern on a 3-0 decision.
Debate team sets sights on nationals.
                                  
Share Your Madison Experience with Prospective Students
The JMC Office of Admissions is looking for alumni volunteers to contact admitted students for the fall semester of 2008.  Volunteers will contact (by phone or email) 3 to 5 admitted students to congratulate them on their acceptance to Madison and answer questions.  If interested, contact Danielle Johnson at jmcadmin@msu.edu or (517) 353-5260. For more information: JMC Archives

Events – Please Join Us!
                                             
Inaugural Jack Paynter Memorial Lecture
Featuring Yale Scholar David Blight
"Slaves No More: Newly Discovered Slave Narratives and the Legacies of Emancipation"
March 19, 2008, 8:00 pm
Big Ten Room C, Kellogg Center
Free admission

David Blight (MSU alumnus) is professor of American history and director of the
Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.  He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the U.S. Civil War and its legacy.Yale history/David Blight

Madison Student Senate Presents
Charity Ball 2008: "A Roast to Professor Richard Zinman"
April 5, 2008, 6:00 p.m.-midnight
Michigan Princess Riverboat, Lansing
The boat will dock at 9:00 p.m. and midnight
$60 per ticket for alumni – for dinner and/or dancing
For tickets or information contact Payal Ravani at ravanipa@msu.edu or 248-342-1695.

Benefitting the Jack Paynter Memorial Fund and the Douglas J. Hoekstra Endowment. 
If you would like to make a donation directly to these charities, contact Rocky Beckett 517-432-2117 or beckettr@msu.edu

Inventors Day
A forum designed by Madison’s Applied Public Policy Research Seminar:  
Michigan Futures in the Global Economy (MC 499)
Friday, April 11, 2008
9 am - 2 pm
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development, MSU

A forum for graduate and undergraduate student inventors and researchers to meet with acknowledged experts and prominent business professionals in the renewable energy and biofuels industries to foster university-industry relationships and raise awareness of student research being done in Michigan's universities.

Annual Homecoming Tailgate 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Two hours before kickoff
Case Hall
Family and friends welcome!

Founders Circle Luncheon
In honor of the late Peter Lyman, one of Madison’s founding professors,
Madison presents:
Mimi Ito Research Scientist, University of Southern California,
Institute for Multimedia Literacy and School of Cinematic Arts

October 24, 2008
11:30 to 2:00, Luncheon and Lecture
Kellogg Center, MSU
Everyone welcome
Panel discussion honoring the legacy and scholarship of Peter Lyman to follow
 
Washington D.C. Alumni and Friends Reception Update
This year’s event has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.  The event will return in the spring of 2009.  Watch for details.  We hope to see you in East Lansing or at other Madison events held throughout this coming year. 

Contact Donna Hofmeister – hofmeist@msu.edu or 517-353-9977
to RSVP or for more information on any of these events.

Sign up for the JMC Alumni Registry
Join over 800 fellow Madison alumni in this voluntary database on the Madison web site.
                  
Join the JMC and MSU Alumni Association online
Dues benefit your alumni association in many ways:  scholarships, alumni awards, career day, college events, alumni newsletter, student recruitment, among other important activities.

Do you use Linked-In?  
We've created a new Linked-in Group for Madison alumni who use the system to join and stay in touch with both the college as well as fellow alumni!  To join, simply click the link and Chris Foley, the Madison Alumni Group manager, will add you to it!

To subscribe to JMC News or to update your contact information, write Kim Allan at allank@msu.edu