Cougar Friday!

I recently read that Alumni are to be encouraged to wear their cougar pride on Fridays.  Well, lets consider this as our "virtual" tee-shirt!

Every Friday, until Homecoming,* we will post a blog combining an insight on leadership and its connection to our shared BYU educational experience.


"Fulfilling prophetic utterances concerning BYU will require that the school be an innovator of bold, new programs.  As Franklin S. Harris expressed it, the school must constantly find new ways to train leaders:  'What this particular university must aim to do is to train for leadership in its highest forms: leadership in the Church itself, leadership in social affairs, leadership in business, leadership in art, leadership in citizenship, in fact leadership in all that will contribute to the betterment of the world and the happiness of its people.' " (Wilkinson, Earnest L. and W. Cleon Skousen. Brigham Young University: A School of Destiny.  BYU Press 1976. pg 880).

* Homecoming is scheduled for October 7-8, 2011.  For those who live near campus, that may seem to be a long way in the future, but for those who live in more distant locations, that's just enough time to make plans to hitch up our wagons and head for Zion.

This year the Spectacular will feature Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell.  Tickets will go on sale Monday Aug. 15 at 9:00 a.m. Mountain  Standard Time.  Anticipating brisk ticket sale, we have worked to get our own FSOS Alumni Affinity Group page ready to go.  The updated page should be available within a week and there you will find links enabling you to purchase tickets for the Spectacular as well as any other Homecoming activity.  When the page is available, we will make a post at our Facebook group site.  We will also remind you about the start of tickets sales as we get closer to Aug 15.