[Editors] referring to alumni

[David Chandler]

This is the style we use in the News Office, and I believe it's also  
widely used by other publications on campus.
Example from a story today:
Terrafugia CEO and co-founder Carl Dietrich '99, SM '03, PhD '07 said...

We normally also list the department, in this case it was in a  
separate sentence:

...a project started four years ago by students in MIT's Department of  
Aeronautics and Astronautics.

David
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David L. Chandler
science writer
MIT News Office
room 11-400
(617) 253-2704

On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Julie Pryor wrote:

> Hi everyone -
>
> I'm a newbie here at MIT, so I'm not sure if this is the appropriate  
> forum for such a question, but I'd like to find out how I should  
> refer to alumni in an upcoming issue of the McGovern Institute's  
> newsletter, Brain Scan. Is it the individual's name, followed by  
> year ('XX), followed by degrees? Should the school/department also  
> be listed?
>
> Any insight would be much appreciated.
>
> SIncerely,
>
> Julie
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