I'm the supervisor of records at the Alumni Association. I came to the Alumni Association in November 1983, and I've been a supervisor since 1986. We try to keep good address records of graduates from all three UI campuses. We don't try to raise money or anything like that, we just try to keep track of where everyone is. From the Urbana campus we have about 300,000 addresses of degree-holding alumni, and more than 100,000 addresses of university friends.
Friends are people who have shown an interest in the university through donations.
Including the other campuses, there are more than 500,000 names total in our database, and we add about 9,000 new graduates to that list each calendar year. It can be. On average, we make about 25,000 address changes each month to keep our records up to date. People call our office from all over the country, and there are times when the phone rings all day long. We average about a dozen calls each day from people looking for someone who attended school here, and other calls are from alumni who want us to straighten out their records.