Events include informal happy hours, cocktail parties, and outdoor activities. Almost all major metropolitan chapters have taken steps to encourage more involvement by G.O.L.D. members in both planning and events. New York City and Washington, D.C., chapters have found that events aimed at G.O.L.D. are some of the most successful activities, with more than 150 alumni attending. The sky above the Homewood campus is dark. Faculty and staff are still at home, waiting for the coffee maker to kick in.
Most students are fast asleep in the dorms.
As the sky lightens at the edge of the horizon, the cadets set off for their three-mile run. Although they might not be thinking about history, these students stand in a long line of cadets that stretches back almost to Johns Hopkins' beginnings. Founded in 1916, the Hopkins ROTC program has sent more than 3,000 men and women to the Army. Of that number, only 741 are accounted for in the ROTC Alumni Association data base. While membership in the JHU Alumni Association automatically enrolls former corps members into the ROTC Alumni Association, first the members must identify themselves as former cadets.