On August 21, 2012, the
St. Bonaventure University archives received
an $11,000 United Nations stamp collection. Ray Albertella, an alumnus who
graduated with a degree in History in 1962, donated this collection to the
university after visiting the campus for the first time since he graduated. As
part of my summer job working for Admissions, I signed up to give tours during
the Alumni Weekend. One of the tours I gave was for the class of 1962 to show
them what had changed at St. Bonaventure University since they attended the
university 50 years earlier.
During
my tour, I showed the class of 1962 the Thisness piece to give them a sense of the
types of clubs and activities in which current Bona students are engaged and
mentioned the Model United Nations of which I am the current Secretary General.
This peaked Mr. Albertella’s interest and after my tour he had started to ask
me what our organization on our campus does. He soon told me about his
collection of United Nations stamps and we exchanged email addresses.
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