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The Office of Alumni Affairs maintains contact information for former students in order to keep alumni informed about the School and alumni activities. The accuracy of this data is important to timely communication, including employment opportunities as they arise. We give alumni access to this information through online and print media outlined on the page. Please use our new Online Directory to submit address changes and share news.

Alumni can be assured that the School maintains strict confidentiality of this information and does not sell it to outside individuals or organizations.

Online Community

Our launch of the School’s new Online Alumni Directory in fall 2007 has been a success: to date we have had over 1,400 alumni from around the world register and begin using the Directory. (See select comments below.)

Search for friends and make new connections with the Online Community. Membership is free and exclusive to alumni only. All you need to do to take advantage of all the community has to offer is to proceed through the registration process to establish a User ID and Password.

Also use the Online Community to share news and activities with your colleagues through our Class Notes feature. Even those with writers-block will find it easy (and fun) to take advantage of the AutoGen button that writes sentences for you!

  • The Online Community will be an important conduit for news and information about the School and future alumni activities. Please Register now!

Visiting the Community Again?

Access to the Online Community is easy. Simply continue on into the secure part of this site and enter the User ID and Password that you created when you registered. If you have registered, click here to visit the Online Directory again.

First Time Visitors

Register now to take advantage of all the benefits of Alumni Community membership!

Alumni Comments

Here are a few comments and some feedback we’ve received alumni:

"So great to be part of the MSM community, even from afar."
—Elaine Smith Purcell, 1995 (Newton, Massachusetts)

"It was so nice to hear from MSM. I have registered online Alumni Directory and hope to get in touch with other friends from now on."
—SungTaek Oh, 2001 (Ontario, Canada)

"Thanks for the link to the new online alumni directory, and congratulations on this marvelous new tool!"
—Gayle Hathorne, 1977 (Shawnee, Kansas)

"This is very hip! Thank you so much for thinking of doing this! I look forward to connecting with musicians I met at MSM 20 years ago!!!"
—George Robert, 1987, Director, Jazz Department, Lausanne Conservatory, (Switzerland)

"This is great! I just hired a violinist for a Messiah performance at my church -- didn't get her phone number, but was able to look her up on the directory to get a timely message to her. This is a great news sharing networking tool that I wish we had always had."
—Eric Birk, 1988, Organist & Choir Director, Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church (New York City)

Ethel Fisher, Class of 1958, told us how she used the Directory to e-mail a former classmate who now lives in Philadelphia. They spoke after many years and were even able to get together in person for old times sake.

Print Directories

"I appreciate everyone's efforts in compiling this Alumni Directory. Previous editions have served me well and I'm glad to receive this updated version.
—Ed Mikenas, MM ’71 Double Bass

A "thank you" to the thousands of alumni who participated in the 90th Anniversary Alumni Directory project. We have completed the detailed and complex process of gathering up-to-date contact, career, and academic information on our over 10,000 former students. Hard- and soft-cover editions, as well as a CD-ROM version were published this summer. Each alumna/nus was given the option of not being included in this publication.

These versions of the Directory were made to fill orders taken this past spring; no additional orders can be placed at this time. A limited number of Directories will be available for purchase once all orders are filled due to cancelled orders. Contact John Blanchard about this option.

Directories have been mailed (as of August 1).

The Directory is compiled and published by Harris Connect, a leader in college alumni directories.

  • To read details and answer frequently asked questions about this special commemorative publication, click here.

The School printed an Alumni Directory in 1994 and again in 2001. The 2001 edition was offered for sale in soft- and hardback editions as well as on CD-ROM to those alumni who ordered at the time of printing (all issues have been sold and delivered). Each alumna/nus was given the option of not being included in these publications.