Professor Claudon, everytime I visit this site, I am impressed by the information that is posted. Most importantly, I am pleased to see the number and diversity of participants. This is becoming a great storehouse for contacts and relationships. I hope that people are visiting regularly and taking advantage of the wealth of talent involved. Please share this site with others and keep stiring the pot. One of the strongest Middlebury affinity groups I have seen is the Midd Alumni Lacrosse group. Their connectivity comes from a simple listserve. I monitor their posts and note that they are conducting more business from a connection, networking and job-posting perspective than any other group at the College.

"Bridges" may be the foundation from which to build the perfect liberal arts education. Take the finest liberal arts college in the world, add the most creative and forward thinking faculty, add students who are interested in having an impact in the real-world and mix it together with interested, capable, talented, and giving alumni/parents/friends and you have the making of a community that can build business, educate, motivate and effect change....not to mention write run-on sentences. The key to this all is particpation. As Michael Claudon said at DB this last weekend, if this is not used, it will die. Please register and please encourage your Midd friends to take a look too.