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>> My name is Alan Schaffranek.

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I am the Associate Director of
Alumni Relations for Smeal College

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of Business at Penn State University.

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It is a pretty big alumni group, and we have

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about 75,000 alumni throughout
the world and the United States.

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What goes into that is - what I love

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about my job is it's something
completely different every day.

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There can be anything from event
registration to awarding awards that are given

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out by Smeal College of Business.

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It can also go into planning
events for our clubs.

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It could be traveling to any of our clubs.

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We have several different clubs in different
cities -- one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Washington, DC; and New York.

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A busy week for me would be a week where
we are having the Alumni Society Board,

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our board that kind of guide
what Alumni Relations is doing

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with Smeal College of Business.

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They are all volunteers.

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And so they'll come into town.

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So it'll start with the beginning of the week,
us just planning all the events that'll happen.

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We usually have them on a Thursday.

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And then we have an event on Friday
following the Alumni Society Board meeting

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that is called "Impact Smeal Day."

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I'm managing the - about 150 alumni
that come in for that event --

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personal itinerary, things of that nature.

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And then we also have the
Alumni Society Board meeting.

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That board meeting has a lot
of planning going into it.

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There are speakers.

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There are also times where
they are in a luncheon,

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so we are planning the luncheons as well.

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There are times when they
are engaging with students

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through the Alumni Society Board themselves.

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They have several different task forces,
so we talk to the task forces and find

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out what they are doing, get updates from them.

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And then we also pull in the Dean of
the College to give them an update

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on what's happening on both days.