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Alumni Travel Journals Online

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Alumni Travel Journals Online

Mar 22, 2007By Michael Stoner


There was also the question of privacy, and whether to include travelers’ full names:

I always worry that including full names will say “Hey, all you burglars out there, Jane Smith from Florida will be in France for another 8 days. Come and clean her out!”  Yet, if we don’t include last names, it loses some of its credibility. Thoughts?

Rob Fure of Washington & Lee University commented that

writing is the workshop of perception and a well-written account of a journey  brings it back vividly and lastingly for travelers and writers alike. I only wish only that more of our colleagues in this field would risk it.

And Nathan Stazewski of Swarthmore contributed this info:

Our Publications director went on our Vietnam trip and did the
following blog.

So one question is – why aren’t more alumni travel directors encouraging or experimenting with this format? Seems like it would add depth and a new dynamic to the trips, while reaching the up-and-coming audience for these very programs…even without mentioning full names and home towns…

Note: This post is by Andy Shaindlin, executive director of the alumni association at Caltech and author of Alumni Futures, who will be our guest blogger until mid-April.


  • Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?