Hello everyone,
While our office is in contact with many of our alumni, I realize that there are a few of you who did not receive my letter in the Spring because your contact information has changed. I wanted to post my greetings for everyone so that each of you know that my role is to support your alumni experience. Please feel free to contact me at any time about anything. I am open to your suggestions about how our office can better serve you. And if you are reading this for the first time, take a moment and update your contact information here. We will be rolling out many new and exciting programs in the near future and we want YOU to be a part of them. All my best, Tramaine
April 1, 2011
Hello CHS Alumni,
As the newest member of The Chestnut Hill School alumni and development office, I would like to introduce myself as the new assistant director of development. With primary responsibility for alumni relations and communications, I am excited to join the community and to be able to work with you and all your fellow alumni.
I am a graduate of the Woodward School for Girls and Colby College, where I am an active alumna of both communities, and am currently finishing my master’s degree in non-profit leadership at Northeastern University. In my “spare time,” I enjoy traveling, pretty much any form of creative expression (music, cooking, design, performance art, you name it), and I am working my way through the AFI’s 100 Best American Movies list.
My professional experience includes teaching science and math at Woodward, where I had my first experiences in the field of development. My passion quickly became reconnecting alumni with their alma mater and I had the opportunity to do so as the associate director of alumni relations at Wentworth Institute of Technology. While at Wentworth, my colleagues and I created young alumni programming, enhanced affinity programming, and developed the e-communications for the alumni office.
As a graduate of and a former teacher at an independent school, I recognize the unique connections that independent school alumni have with their alma mater and my goal is to help enhance the quality of your relationship with CHS. My initial goals are to provide more effective communication, to strengthen bonds between alumni and the school, and to identify opportunities for alumni to impact and support the current students at CHS.
I look forward to meeting you at an upcoming alumni event. The annual barbeque for young alumni in the classes of 2001-2011 is on June 16. If you would like to be involved in the planning of this or any of our other upcoming events, please feel free to contact me. Events are always more successful if you encourage your friends to join you and we can help you make that happen.
If you have thoughts or ideas about alumni activities, events, or ways to reconnect, I encourage you to share them with me at tweekes@tchs.org or through Facebook (Chestnut Hill Alums), Twitter (tchsdotorg), or by sharing a class note for the Hill Happenings magazine. I look forward to working with you to advance alumni relations at CHS.
All my best,
Tramaine Weekes
Assistant Director of Development
