Howard, who lives in Miami Beach, received the Alumni Award of Merit in 1988. She is active in Reunion planning for her Class, founding president of the Dade County Alumni Club and has chaired the secondary-school committee for her area. There is no bad part to the job. Her next volunteer assignment will be chair of the Penn Fund, the University's annual-giving program, where she hopes to replicate some practices instituted in Alumni Relations. The truth is, most alumni want to share in the future of the University.
Some people are able to give, some people are able to do, and some people are able to do both.
We need to ensure that the alumni population has the opportunity to do as much collectively as it wants to and as much individually as he or she wants. I feel a strong lifetime connection to it. I have great affection and admiration for its professional and volunteer leadership. I saw an opportunity for me to continue what Elsie had started, and I hope I am the right person for the job. Very few of the alumni actually get back to campus, and I think we have a responsibility to get out to them and give them services and programs and support to connect them to the University.