With its rich history spanning nearly a century, the Union Christian College is blessed with its own unique traditions and a family of alumni and friends living all around the globe, who have achieved great success in careers and in life. These alumni and friends look to UCC with great warmth and gratitude and yearn to maintain a lifelong connection with their alma mater. The Union Christian College Alumni Association was established in response to this recognized need. It was designed to provide a forum for connection and fellowship for the alumni and friends globally with the Union Christian College community as a whole. The intent is to create a lasting bond of friendship between all alumni everywhere, a bond that will be enjoyable and rewarding to the college and the alumni. A formal Constitution for the Association was adopted in February, 1969. It is the alumni support that has helped some of the leading Universities and Colleges in the world achieve their premier status and unique academic excellence. Learning from such examples, the Union Christian College Alumni Association hopes to serve as a link for the alumni to share their rich experience, skills, ideas, time, loyalty and financial resources with the alma mater. Such support will help the Union Christian College to grow in the contemporary global environment and promote its mission of academic excellence. This will no doubt, advance the reputation of the college and its alumni. The active participation of the alumni worldwide and their support are key elements in the success of the association and of the college. UCC is proud of her sons and daughters who have gone out with flying colours, for they are the ones who transfer vision and aspirations to the young. Their love, fostering and sharing nurtures the fond feelings of being a 'UCCian' and the joy of having an extended family in the younger minds at UCC. The feeling of having the legacy of a common brotherhood is shared on every second Saturday of November, when the past and present generations unite together in the VMH for General Body meetings and discussions, under the willowy shades of the Mahagony trees to recapture the teenage dreams, and in the college canteen for a sumptuous meal together…….. To facilitate alumni participation and foster the sense of belonging, a number of other events are arranged by the Association during the year. These include a July meet on second Saturday in July, batch reunions, lectures, topical seminars, newsletters, alumni web site, etc. The college warmly welcomes recommendations from the alumni on improving the academic quality, supporting research projects, promoting industrial liaison in collaborative research, international linkage, or developing value-added alumni projects. It is too prosaic to state that the college will greatly benefit from the financial support of alumni who have richly benefited from a UCC education and who are willing to share their blessings with the generations that follow them through the portals of UCC. That will be the symbolic thanksgiving to our alma mater. It is pleasing to note that a number of alumni endowments have already been established in UCC that offer scholarships to deserving students. Much more financial resources are needed by UCC especially to meet the long recognized need to vastly improve its infrastructure. That will continue to be the greatest need in the coming years. The UCC alumni community is spread all around the globe. In order to foster closer interactions and networking among them, many regional alumni associations have been formed and more are being considered. Two such lively alumni associations outside India are the UCC Alumni Association of N. America (UCCAANA) and the UCC Alumni Association of Kuwait (UCCAAK).