Nominations for Alumni of the Year awards are sought from all members of the Alumni Association. The Alumni of the Year awards are presented at Reunion. All graduates of the College are members of the Alumni Association.
After graduating from Albertus with a major in social sciences through the Accelerated Degree Program, Karreem Mebane didn’t have far to go for the next step in his educational journey. In fact, it was just a few blocks down Prospect Street to the Yale University Divinity School. While a student there, he focused on business and social ethics, receiving a Master of Arts in Religious Studies in 2006. He earned the Chancellor’s List Honor, the International Scholar Laureate Award, and was named a Yale Club Scholar. Yale hired Mebane later in 2006 to supervise graduate and professional school intramural athletic programs. He previously had been a baseball umpire for seven seasons, working minor league games throughout the professional baseball system. His next move was to the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, where he assisted with on-field operations. He now is with Yale’s Office of Development as senior program coordinator, overseeing a team of seven working on a $3.5 billion capital campaign. Never forgetting his commitment to the College, he served for five years on the Board of Governors of the Albertus Alumni Association, including time as vice president. In 2010 he co-chaired the inaugural Alumni Golf Outing, a very successful part of last year’s reunion weekend. The Albertus connection continues: For close to five years, he has been a lecturer and adjunct professor at the College, teaching undergraduate courses in the department of philosophy and religious studies. For the past three years, he has carried out his strong belief in the importance of acting as a moral and socially responsible citizen by giving of his time and talents as an advisory board member for Rock & Wrap it Up, a national food recovery think tank, which partners with 60 sports franchises in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and AFL to recover food that is prepared but not sold from home game concessions throughout the United States and Canada, then donated to feed the indigent. Closer to home, he is a director of St. Luke’s Episcopal Development Corporation and an advisory committee member for Southern Connecticut State University’s sport management concentration, for which he is helping the institution develop a sports ethics curriculum.
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