My first posting on Monday said: Here it is, Monday morning, when I review what happened over the weekend and what is to come this week, and there is almost emptiness. I then went on to write about a non-news item.  Well, I was right.  Nothing much happened this week. Before going on to my topic of this Saturday, I can report that this will be the longest summer ever.  How?  What? Monday, May 25 is Memorial day, which has become the unofficial beginning of summer. Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer will come on September 7. This 105-day period is the longest summer you will ever experience in your life. Of course, if you're old enough, you saw a 105-day summer in 2015. And this happened 17 times more since 1900. Ethel Caterham from the UK is 116 years old. If she is still alive on Memorial Day, this will be her 17th longest summer.  Well, 16th until Labor Day this year. This matter of official summer length is, actually, quite complicated. The astronomical...

If you graduated from a university, chances are that you receive some kind of regular publication from your school for free.  The reason is that the administration wants to keep in touch with you, for this publication is many times also read by others, leading to future students.  Plus, donations are always welcome.   Here are ten noteworthy examples. I read an article last year,  Alumni Magazines as a Key Part of Alumni Communications. Many alumni magazines are shifting from hard copy to digital platforms. This is much cheaper and also keeps up with the times. However, a surprise is that recent graduates sometimes complain that they want to receive something like this in the mail: “Oh, we love getting this! We get so few things in print anymore that this is really special to us, and we hang on to it, and it’s on our coffee table, and we flip immediately to alumni notes to see if our friends are there and see if their photos are in print, because they live in a ...

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