Randolph-Macon Class Agents

R-MC Class Agents serve as ambassadors to their classmates on behalf of the Annual Fund Office. They are responsible for soliciting support from their classmates to ensure that the College’s alumni participation rate remains competitive with other colleges and universities of Randolph-Macon’s size and prestige. Alumni Participation is critical to the College because many college guidebooks and ranking services, such as U.S. News and World Report, use alumni giving participation rates as the sole criterion to rate alumni involvement when compiling overall institutional quality ratings. To move up (or even maintain our place) in the rankings and thus attract quality students, increasing our alumni participation rate is a critical component.

Tom Powers Award

In 2003, the Society of Alumni created an award to recognize those classes with the highest giving participation rate within their decade. They named the award after W. Thomas (Tom) Powers, ’31. Dubbed “Mr. R-MC” by his peers, he was a tireless volunteer for the College, inspiring alumni to both volunteer for and support R-MC.

The Tom Powers Award is housed in the Advancement Office along with a plaque honoring the award winners. This year, the award will be announced and presented at Homecoming (October 24-25) during the Class Agent Kick-Off.

If you would like to volunteer to help your class, or would like to know who your class agent is, please email classagents@rmc.edu.  

 Current Leaders

 (as of 7/30/2008)

1950s: 1953 (62.16% Participation)
1960s: 1961 (65.52% Participation)
1970s: 1975 (50.37% Participation)
1980s: 1984 (34.46% Particiption)
1990s: 1999 (22.22% Participation)
2000s: 2005 (26.54% Participation)

Alumni  Participation During FY08 (7/1/07 - 6/30/08)