2025 HPA Banquet and Alumni Weekend
Mark Your Calendars and Plan to Attend
April 11-13, 2025
Greetings fellow alums:
Hopefully, you are looking forward to the next HPA/alumni gathering next Spring!
Please occasionally update your information with SEMO's Alumni Foundation. Don't want telemarketing for donations? Make a Note in the “Other Information Section” to “Please do not contact for fundraising purposes.” However, please answer YES to the last question on the form so you get emails sent out at the request of our Chapter/Dr. Hoffman. If you select “NO” you will not hear from them again. Unsubscribing is “all or nothing.”
Meanwhile, we hope you might take some steps to help spread awareness in your locality and sphere/s of influence to help SEMO increase its enrollment into the HP Program. Although the market for graduates with degrees in historic preservation continues to be strong, it is a college major that many people, especially high school students, do not realize exists.
Old ways of reaching prospective students are outdated and changing. You could help spread the word by offering to connect with your local high school or community college history teachers and school counselors/career/placement centers and drop off one of our program posters or some of our program brochures. You might also consider volunteering to speak at any career fairs your local schools may offer.
We are proud of the work the HP program has done over the last 43 years to produce outstanding and successful graduates such as yourself. But if we want to guarantee Southeast continues to offer this major for the next 40+years, we need to increase recruitment into the program. Any help you can give in this direction would be appreciated.
If you think you can deliver a poster or drop off some brochures about the program with your local high school history teachers and school counselors, please let me know or contact Dr. Hoffman directly. You can reach me at [email protected] and Dr. Hoffman at [email protected] or (573) 651-2808.
Thank you for your continued support of the HP program. It is dedicated alumni like you who help make this program one of the best in the country...and unique to SEMO!
Sincerely,
Melissa Dirr Gengler
President, HP alumni chapter president
Hopefully, you are looking forward to the next HPA/alumni gathering next Spring!
Please occasionally update your information with SEMO's Alumni Foundation. Don't want telemarketing for donations? Make a Note in the “Other Information Section” to “Please do not contact for fundraising purposes.” However, please answer YES to the last question on the form so you get emails sent out at the request of our Chapter/Dr. Hoffman. If you select “NO” you will not hear from them again. Unsubscribing is “all or nothing.”
Meanwhile, we hope you might take some steps to help spread awareness in your locality and sphere/s of influence to help SEMO increase its enrollment into the HP Program. Although the market for graduates with degrees in historic preservation continues to be strong, it is a college major that many people, especially high school students, do not realize exists.
Old ways of reaching prospective students are outdated and changing. You could help spread the word by offering to connect with your local high school or community college history teachers and school counselors/career/placement centers and drop off one of our program posters or some of our program brochures. You might also consider volunteering to speak at any career fairs your local schools may offer.
We are proud of the work the HP program has done over the last 43 years to produce outstanding and successful graduates such as yourself. But if we want to guarantee Southeast continues to offer this major for the next 40+years, we need to increase recruitment into the program. Any help you can give in this direction would be appreciated.
If you think you can deliver a poster or drop off some brochures about the program with your local high school history teachers and school counselors, please let me know or contact Dr. Hoffman directly. You can reach me at [email protected] and Dr. Hoffman at [email protected] or (573) 651-2808.
Thank you for your continued support of the HP program. It is dedicated alumni like you who help make this program one of the best in the country...and unique to SEMO!
Sincerely,
Melissa Dirr Gengler
President, HP alumni chapter president
Thanks to Wikipedia for straightening this out:
Alumni is the plural of alumnus but can also be used to refer to a group of men and women graduates/former students. This is the term we use, as it may also be gender neutral.
Alumna is used to refer to a woman graduate or former student.
Alumnae is the plural of alumna.
Alumnus is used to refer to a singular male graduate or former student.
Alumni is the plural of alumnus but can also be used to refer to a group of men and women graduates/former students. This is the term we use, as it may also be gender neutral.
Alumna is used to refer to a woman graduate or former student.
Alumnae is the plural of alumna.
Alumnus is used to refer to a singular male graduate or former student.
We continue to try and reach out to long-lost, long-forgotten HP students and graduates! Here are three ways you can assist peers who developed Southeast's FIRST EVER degree-specific alumni chapter:
Might you do three quick things?
1) Become a MEMBER in our new alumni chapter. Join for as many years at a time as you wish ($10/year). Our only expense presently is this website; and, we'd like to build a small cushion for future, nominal expenses. Let's show SEMO that HP alums are dedicated to their Alma mater;
2) Make a tax-deductible donation to the HP Fund (see box at bottom of membership application); and,
3) Contact any HP alumni that you went to school with, or who graduated with you (or, in the class before...or, after you) and share this information. Even if you choose not to support the chapter through membership, at least "like" us on Facebook, so we may have a way to keep you abreast!
OKAY 4) If you have any historical items (photographs or documents like HPA minutes/notes?) from your time at SEMO, keep scans or digital snapshots for yourself and send originals for inclusion in SEMO HP Program's archival collections in Kent Library:
Attn: Tyson M. Koenig, Associate Archivist
Special Collections & Archives, Kent Library
One University Plaza, MS 4600
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Phone 573.651.2100
[email protected]
[email protected]
Might you do three quick things?
1) Become a MEMBER in our new alumni chapter. Join for as many years at a time as you wish ($10/year). Our only expense presently is this website; and, we'd like to build a small cushion for future, nominal expenses. Let's show SEMO that HP alums are dedicated to their Alma mater;
2) Make a tax-deductible donation to the HP Fund (see box at bottom of membership application); and,
3) Contact any HP alumni that you went to school with, or who graduated with you (or, in the class before...or, after you) and share this information. Even if you choose not to support the chapter through membership, at least "like" us on Facebook, so we may have a way to keep you abreast!
OKAY 4) If you have any historical items (photographs or documents like HPA minutes/notes?) from your time at SEMO, keep scans or digital snapshots for yourself and send originals for inclusion in SEMO HP Program's archival collections in Kent Library:
Attn: Tyson M. Koenig, Associate Archivist
Special Collections & Archives, Kent Library
One University Plaza, MS 4600
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Phone 573.651.2100
[email protected]
[email protected]
FIRSTS for the HP Program at Southeast
FIRST Internship Program at Southeast: HP Program, 1983
FIRST Interdisciplinary Program at Southeast: HP Program, 1983
FIRST Endowed Chair at Southeast: Larry and Donna Marler Endowed Chair in Historic Preservation, 2001
FIRST Degree Specific Alumni Chapter at Southeast (and still the ONLY): HP Alumni Chapter, 2016
FIRST Interdisciplinary Program at Southeast: HP Program, 1983
FIRST Endowed Chair at Southeast: Larry and Donna Marler Endowed Chair in Historic Preservation, 2001
FIRST Degree Specific Alumni Chapter at Southeast (and still the ONLY): HP Alumni Chapter, 2016
Dedicated to growing and expanding an awesome program.
Southeast Missouri State University's Historic Preservation Alumni gather here to:
Share their experiences and donate archival materials from 'the good old days;'
Usher current HP students and new HP graduates into the 'real world;'
Connect with one another personally and professionally; and,
Encourage each alumni to $upport the SEMO HP Fund.
Share their experiences and donate archival materials from 'the good old days;'
Usher current HP students and new HP graduates into the 'real world;'
Connect with one another personally and professionally; and,
Encourage each alumni to $upport the SEMO HP Fund.
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