SOMETHING SPECIAL will be on the agenda when the Richard Ivey School of Business/Asia's executive MBA class of 2000 get together for their sixth annual alumni reunion dinner.
'Someone said we should do something special beside getting together, having a drink and reminiscing,' said class representative Joe Attrux.
'We decided we should do something special to set the tone of what other classes could do.'
After much discussion, the alumni came up with the idea of setting up a fund to help applicants who met all of the requirements but lacked the financial resources to pay the programme's hefty tuition fees.
'We have all benefited from the programme, and we wanted others to benefit from it too,' Mr Attrux said.
Two names were proposed for the fund: the Guinea Pig Fund, because they were the first group of students, and the Millennium Fund, because they graduated in the year 2000.
'We took a vote and Millennium Fund won.'