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Upcoming events
- NY-NY Metro Chapter - WVU vs. Pitt Game Watch
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge, 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - NY-NJ Metro Chapter - WVU vs. UConn Game Watch
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge, 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - NY-NY Metro Chapter - WVU vs. Cincinnati Game Watch
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge (3rd Fl), 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - WVU Alumni Association's Chapters Food Drive & Game Watch
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Chapters Nationwide - NY-NJ Metro Chapter - WVU vs. Georgetown Game Watch
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge, 783 Eighth Ave., New York, NY - Ny-NJ Metro Chapter - WVU vs. Villanova
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Latitude Bar & Lounge, 783 Eighth St., New York, NY - Central PA Chapter - WVU vs. Villanova Bus Trip
- Saturday, March 6th, 2010
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What's going on...
This new alumni center will be a place where you feel like you do when you hear the Alma Mater sung.
The WVU Alumni Association, in partnership with the WVU Foundation, Inc., is embarking upon a $12 million capital campaign to build a new home for Mountaineers. Learn how you can support the new alumni center.
Alumni and friends will take pride in finding a unique, new home - one that evokes the history, tradition and character of the downtown campus, including a landmark bell tower, reminiscent of Woodburn Hall. It also will provide a spacious and warm environment for visiting and reminiscing with old friends and classmates, for celebrating special events, watching ballgames, or attending meetings, conferences and reunions.
Alumni spotlight
Former WVU and professional football player Jimmy Gary has always been an actor. Entertaining audiences both on and off the field, he has turned his passion for acting into a career.
"I fell in love with it [acting] the same way I fell in love with football. It was natural," said Gary.
Gary, who has appeared on Law & Order, the Sopranos and Third Watch, recently starred on the popular soap opera All My Children, in which he played a private investigator. Gary said that shooting the show was fast paced, which made him rely on his instincts.
"The director said 'one take' and I got nervous. In the end, though, I got the job done, just like playing football," Gary said.
A knee injury forced Gary to hang up his cleats and pursue acting full time. After leaving the NFL, he enrolled in the bachelor's of fine arts program at WVU, where he received constant encouragement from his professors and classmates.