Dear REES Alumnus/ Alumna,

Congratulations on your graduation from the University of Pittsburgh! Our goal was to contribute to your academic achievements and career opportunities, and we hope that you think we succeeded. We certainly thank you for your hard work, for your success enhances REES´s reputation. Your achievements, past and present, are important aspects of our selection as a National Resource Center for excellence supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

Although you are no longer at the University, we encourage you to keep in touch with us. We would like to know more about your career and personal development. Also, if there is anything we could do to assist you, please contact us.

When REES staff travel, we often celebrate Pitt/REES alumni events, in the United States and abroad. We would be very happy to invite you to such events and to see you again, in Pittsburgh or elsewhere, but to do that we have to know where you are. By filling out the form below, you can keep your ties with REES. Keeping current with us will also help us to gather data that we are required to report to the U.S. Department of Education, in order to keep getting the kinds of funding that let us offer the programs that have benefited you.

All of us in REES congratulate you on your achievements thus far, wish you the best of luck in the future, and look forward to learning about your future activities.

Sincerely,

Robert Hayden
Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs
Director, Center for Russian & East European Studies

Center for Russian & East European Studies
University Center for International Studies
4400 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA

Phone: 412-648-7407
Fax: 412-648-7002
E-mail: crees@pitt.edu

Updated September 26, 2012