For most of you who just graduated in May, this is your first-ever issue of the ILLINOIS STATE E-LUMNI NEWS. Welcome! We hope you’ll enjoy these bi-monthly (that’s every-other-month) E-newsletters.

To our more ‘seasoned’ (that’s OLDER) alumni . . . Take just a moment and think about what one, best tidbit of advice you’d like to share with these new alumni as they embark on their post-college lives. What do you wish someone had told you when you were on your own for the first time?

To submit your entry for the TOP TEN ILLINOIS STATE ALUMNI WORDS OF WISDOM FOR NEW GRADS, please E-mail Julie Goodlick ’81, M.S. ’85, senior assistant director in Alumni Services. Your entry must be 75 words or less and include your complete name, degree year, and E-mail address. Authors of complete entries will have their names submitted for a drawing for a free ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GOLF SHIRT (white with red and black trim, full-color logo on left pocket)!

The top ten (give or take a few) words of wisdom will be published in the September, 2003, issue of the E-LUMNI NEWS.