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The Alumni Board plans programs and activities focused on making real-time connections between alumni and the college.
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Who Are the Alumni Of Macalester?

• Macalester has 28,153 alumni, counting all former students who attended the college for at least two semesters.
• Their most common fields of work are education, health and medicine, business, financial services, and government.
• Alumni can be found in all 50 U.S. states plus D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Mariana Islands.
• 1,403 alumni live outside U.S. in 119 countries.
• 31 percent live in the Twin Cities metro area. The next largest populations live in New York City; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and Chicago.
• Notable alumni include:
  
  • U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan '61 and Vice President Walter Mondale '50
  • Authors Mary Karr '74 and Tim O'Brien '68
  • Web pioneers Jeremy Allaire '93 and J.J. Allaire '91
  • Musicians Will Sheff '98 of Okkervil River, Amanda Warner '01 of MNDR, Kwame Tsikata '05 (a.k.a. m.anifest), and Bob Mould '82 of Hüsker Dü
  • Film and TV director Peter Berg '84; creators of SyFy channel's Haven, Jim Dunn '88 and Sam Ernst '88; actress, director, and playwright Danai Gurira '01; and founder of the Endeavor Talent Agency, Ari Emanuel '83
• 40 percent of Macalester graduates made financial gifts to their alma mater last fiscal year.
• The oldest living alum is from the Class of 1931.