Every Story
Started Here.

Ordinary World

Some places don’t just remember you — they never stopped.

1891

1924

1968

“The campus kept going without me. But the moment I walked back through the gate, thirty years collapsed into nothing.”

— Margaret Osei-Bonsu, Class of ’94, Marketing Director

Mentorship & Transformation

The diploma was only
the first gift.

Flip each card to see what happened when an alumnus and a student found each other. These aren’t case studies — they’re this year’s stories.

Margaret Osei-Bonsu

Class of ’94

Marketing Director, Clearwater Group

“She reminded me why I chose this field. Helping her felt like writing a letter to my younger self.”

Mentorship coffee → résumé overhaul → career pivot

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The outcome

2 offers

in six weeks

Her mentee signed with a design studio in May — and now mentors a sophomore herself.

Full circle, one year later

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Dr. James Whitfield

Class of ’81

Retired Professor of Biochemistry

“I funded the centrifuge anonymously. Seeing it in use every week is enough.”

Anonymous gift → lab equipment → published discovery

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The outcome

$48K

lab grant unlocked

His gift equipped the teaching lab — and a junior’s paper now cites the instrument.

Given quietly, used daily

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Lucía Fernández-Ramos

Class of ’07

VP Engineering, Solarix

“She had the same weird sense of humor as our department. I knew she’d fit perfectly.”

Directory search → referral → hired in 19 days

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The outcome

19 days

search to signed offer

One directory introduction turned a final-year project into a full-time role.

The directory at work

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Thomas Nakagawa

Class of ’89

Founder, Nakagawa Foundation

“The scholarship is named after my professor. He’d have wanted exactly this.”

Endowment gift → named scholarship → first-gen graduate

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The outcome

14

scholars funded

Fourteen first-generation students now study under his professor’s name.

A name that keeps teaching

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