Sander Farewell and Thank-You Event is Friday

The University community is invited to celebrate a year of service by the UA's 20th president, Eugene G. Sander, Friday afternoon in the Student Union Memorial Center.

The event is being billed as a "thank-you" party, but it's also a chance to say farewell to Sander – again.

"You can tell everybody I think this is the last time I think I'll be departing," he said in an interview.

Sander noted with some humor that "we had a very nice event when I retired as dean of ag (the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)."

That was just a year ago.
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