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| A senior at Albany Law School, Melody Deigor plans to move to Washington D.C. and work for the United States government in the public sector. She’ll be in familiar territory; while at St. Lawrence, she studied with the University’s Washington Semester, when her interest in law was sparked. She also interned with retired Judge Eugene Nicandri in Canton, convincing her that law school was the right direction. Think a senior about to face final exams is overwhelmed? Think again. Melody finds time to be the Reunion Development Chair for the class of 2001 for their first reunion taking place this summer. “I’m trying to encourage classmates to attend and to make a gift, whether it’s monetary or by volunteering,” she says. Since she graduated, she notices a special bond among alumni. With the help of a few other grads, she has gathered regional alumni together a number of times, noting that “Alumni stick together and help each other out.” Throughout her St. Lawrence career, Melody kept busy with her sorority sisters in Kappa Kappa Gamma, where she learned about the benefits of philanthropy work. She also worked for Admissions and on the Panhellenic Council. Melody was a part of the Thelomathesian Society (student government). She realizes that all of the jobs and opportunities she had at St. Lawrence are because of the generosity and the hard work of the alumni from before her time. “The opportunities I had at St. Lawrence put me where I am,” she says, “and I volunteer to help so I can give back to St. Lawrence what it gave me, and so I can give other students the same opportunities I had.”
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Melody Diegor ‘01