So many reasons to celebr(08)! Just two months after graduation, here’s what the Class of 2008 has going on:

• Check out your new class website, part of the Penn Young Alumni Portal
• Your undergraduate email address may expire! Get your lifetime alumni email address today and sign up for QuakerNet, Penn’s online community
• Save the date: Penn Clubs around the world welcome their newest alumni with First September events. New dates added regularly so check back often!

The Penn Fund is extremely grateful for the support of the Class of 2008. With more donors than any other alumni class, the graduating seniors demonstrated their exemplary unity and pride in support of undergraduate education at Penn:

  • Donors: 1565 (All donors are now members of the Ivy Stone Society recognizing The Penn Fund's most loyal supporters!)
    • New SGD record!
    • +13.4% of SGD 2007 record
    • Benjamin Franklin Society (BFS): 116 members
      • New SGD record!
      • 3 more than SGD 2007 record
  • Participation: 68.4%
    • New SGD record!
    • +5.4% of SGD 2007 record
  • Dollars: $58,229.96
    • 2nd highest senior gift contribution in history!
    • Your gifts add up every year, no matter the size. Your annual participation at any level makes this generosity possible!
  • 100% senior-participation affinity groups: 86
    • New SGD record!
    • More than 2x the SGD 2007 record (39)

And the winner is… Queen – “Don’t Stop Me Now” (1979)

6,738 votes were cast for this mainstay in international entertainment and advertisements. Learn more about its history here and request it at your next class reunion!

“Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time/ I feel alive/ And the world, I'll turn it inside out, yeah… Don't stop me now/ 'Cause I'm having a good time/ Don't stop me now/ Yes I'm having a good time/ I don't wanna stop at all.”

Congratulations to our newest Penn alumni! See you at Homecoming from October 31 - November 2, 2008.

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The Penn Fund, 601 Franklin Building, 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 | pennfund@ben.dev.upenn.edu | 215-898-8445 / 800-237-2655

 

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