Cal Alumni Association Membership OptionsBy Dennis T Wang

Introduction• For more than a decade, Dennis T. Wang has led the New

York fashion house Alexander Wang, Inc., as a Co-Founder and Chief Principal Officer. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Dennis T. Wang is a member of the Cal Alumni Association.

The Cal Alumni Association (CAA) provides graduates with multiple options for membership, including the annual membership plan, which is renewable, as well as a lifetime membership plan for those alumni who wish to stay involved with the school and the CAA for the foreseeable future. Regardless of the type of membership plan, any graduating senior or recent graduate receives discounted CAA membership rates.

Cal Alumni Association• Alumni with children currently enrolled at the university,

senior citizens, and the spouses of CAA Life Members also qualify for discounted rates.

The two primary forms of CAA membership are the Standard and the Golden Bear memberships. The Standard membership, which can be purchased at both the annual and lifetime levels, provides alumni with a host of benefits, ranging from discounts at affiliated companies like Avis and the Aurora Theater Company in Berkeley to free access to any University of California campus library. Golden Bear members, meanwhile, receive additional customized benefits, such as Golden Bear lapel pins cut with Cal colors and reports in California magazine, an award-winning publication distributed to more than 100,000 alumni members.