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Len DiLorenzo, E66: Tufts Admissions Network and Board Member of Tufts Club of Cape Cod and South Shore
Len DiLorenzo, E66

Len DiLorenzo, E66: Tufts Admissions Network and Board Member of Tufts Club of Cape Cod and South Shore, Alumni Chapter Leadership Award Winner

I entered Tufts in 1962 and graduated in 1966. I was able to attend Tufts because I was awarded a Navy ROTC scholarship. This meant that I took additional military classes and spent my summers in Navy training assignments. This, coupled with my chemical engineering major, meant that I was very busy! My social outlet was membership in the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. This is where I made many of my life-long friends.

After graduation I spent five years in the Navy where indeed I did, “see the world”. During two years aboard a destroyer out of Newport, we were deployed to the Mediterranean for eight months. We steamed to Middle East, saw the first attacks of the 1967 Israeli war, steamed around the African coast and headed back to Newport, RI. My next assignment for the Navy was a year in Vietnam stationed in Da Nang. After five years of active duty, I spent the next 22 years in the Navy Reserve as an engineering duty officer, reaching the rank of Captain. My professional life was spent in medical products manufacturing, ultimately as Vice President for Quality Assurance for an international company in Rhode Island.

My Tufts education was tuition free due to my NROTC scholarship and that is why I am dedicated to giving back to the community at Tufts. I joined what was then called the Tufts Alumni Admissions Program (now the Tufts Admissions Network), interviewing prospective Tufts students for over twenty years. I was constantly impressed with the quality of students applying to Tufts.  They were uniformly smart, poised and articulate. The Alumni Association kept me up to date on the happenings on campus, so I felt I was prepared to give current information to prospective students.

 After my wife, Annmarie, and I retired to Cape Cod about eight years ago, I joined the Tufts Club of Cape Cod. I was invited to join by a former Navy Admiral who also retired to the Cape. When I was elected to the board, I discovered three of the board members were my fraternity brothers.  The Tufts alumni are indeed a very close knit group.

Now I give back annually by supporting the Charles Tufts Society, the Century Club Scholarship Fund, and sponsoring the Tufts Club annual book awards which are awarded to students at local Cape Cod high schools. I encourage all alumni to give back to our school in any way possible.

Len recently earned an Alumni Chapter Leadership Award for his work with the Tufts Cub of Cape Cod and South Shore. In his nomination letter, his fellow board member Rebecca Stephens says of him, “In our board meetings, Len brings a positive and helpful perspective to everything that we do. He always extends himself to offer assistance and support in every endeavor; I find his work to be absolutely invaluable.”

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