Class of 2019 Toasts Its Way into Alumni Network

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Bryan Lipiner is the Senior Manager for Social Media and Content Marketing at Babson College. Since arriving at Babson in 2019, he has dramatically scaled engagement and followings on Babson’s social media channels, led award-winning social media campaigns, written for Babson Thought & Action, and more. Prior to Babson, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Record-Journal newspaper in central Connecticut. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University in 2015.

| May 7, 2019

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The Class of 2019 was welcomed into Babson’s alumni network Wednesday evening at the college’s annual champagne toast.

Hosted by the Alumni and Friends Network, the celebration is held on the last day of classes.

Student Government Association Executive Vice President Jae Shin ’19 and Graduate Student Council President Hisham Beydoun MBA’19 led the toast.

“The value of our degree begins as we join this family of 41,000 Beavers, the largest and most diverse network of entrepreneurs and gritty go-getters on the planet,” Beydoun said, before raising his glass with the Class of 2019.

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