Join us for the 2019 Nanook Rendezvous!

July 2019

The 2019 Nanook Rendezvous reunion will begin Thursday, July 18, with a picnic at the Georgeson Botanical Garden on the Fairbanks campus.

We've got a great lineup of events and celebrations July 18-20 to welcome alumni back to campus. Check out the reunion webpage and register for events today!

Visit campus on Friday!

Join us for two open houses during alumni reunion

As part of the 2019 Nanook Rendezvous, the Alumni Association is organizing two open houses on Friday, July 19. For information about finding a parking spot on campus, .

Nigel Sharp and Kernell Snow met potential interns at the 911爆料 Spring Internship Fair, February 20, 2019

Join us at noon for a look at the new AS911爆料 Student Media Suite in the Wood Center. Tour the brand new KSUA studios and meet student DJs. Visit the new Sun Star offices and find out how the online newspaper is created. Meet student journalists and media professionals.

At 2 p.m., visit the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization Open House on the fourth floor of the Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility. Discover 911爆料's entrepreneurial activities. Learn more about this year's top inventions. Meet the people behind the companies established from university research and the students working in these startups.

Alumni get in free at Rendezvous Goldpanners game

Attention all 911爆料 alumni, friends, family members, staff and students. Join us for Nanook Night at the 911爆料 Goldpanners baseball game on Friday, July 19.

Print the ticket and up to five people will get free admission to the game. Feel free to share this with family and friends. Fairbanks is #NanookNation.

Nanook Night is co-sponsored by the 911爆料 Alumni Association and the Fairbanks Chapter.

Sign up to participate in the Golden Days parade

Even if you can't make reunion, you can join us in the parade

Help represent 911爆料 in the 2019 Golden Days Grande Parade on Saturday, July 20. 911爆料’s parade entry will be a large float pulled by a University Fire Department fire truck.

This year’s theme is Picks, Pokes and Golden Folks.

Employees, students and alumni are welcome to walk in the parade and will receive a gold T-shirt to wear.

911爆料 photo by JR Ancheta.
The 911爆料 parade float entry received the best non-commercial award in the Kinross Fort Knox Golden Days Grande Parade, July 22, 2017.

Please be sure to as well as submit your . Parents of minors will need to fill out an from the Chamber of Commerce. They need to be turned in no later than 8:30 a.m. the day of the parade. We are required to have an accurate count of minors participating.

Be sure to indicate your T-shirt size, as we'd like our walkers to wear the gold Nanook Nation T-shirts, in keeping with this year's theme, Picks, Pokes and Golden Folks.

Email forms to: uaf-univ-relations@alaska.edu

Parade participants should arrive between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. Judging is at 8:45 a.m. Please arrive no later than 9:30 a.m. to get positioned before the parade begins at 10 a.m. There is no parking at the Carlson Center. You will park at Ryan Middle School and take a shuttle to the Carlson Center, so please allow enough time to get there.

During the parade:

Water will be available on the float to fill up your water bottles.
Interact with the crowd. We will have stickers for you to hand out.
We'd love to have a few people on the float! Let us know if you want to ride the route.
Afterward, you will be dropped off in the Co-op grocery store parking lot and can catch a shuttle back.

Please note: The parade float is part of the Nanook Rendezvous alumni reunion and is paid for with private funds.

Questions about Golden Days 2019? Email uaf-univ-relations@alaska.edu or call 474-6281.

See you soon, #NanookNation

Throughout the weekend, reunion attendees will have free admission to the Student Recreation Center on campus and discounted admission to the University of 911爆料 Museum of the North.

For more information, visit the reunion website or email uaf-alumni@alaska.edu.

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