Find-a-Friend Alumni Locator Service

Lost track of a friend or roommate? Track him or her down with the Alumni Association's Find-a-Friend service. Simply enclose a stamped card or letter addressed to your "lost" friend in an envelope addressed to the Alumni Association and marked "Find-a-Friend." We'll readdress it and mail it for you. This is a free service for members of the Alumni Association. For nonmembers, there is a $5 charge for each piece researched, readdressed and forwarded.

Here's how it works:
Please contact us via mail at:
University of Illinois Alumni Association
c/o Records Manager
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
601 South Lincoln Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
or email at alumni@uiuc.edu.

Let us know the full name, degree year and college of the friend for whom you are looking. We can then check to make sure we have a current mailable address for your friend. When we look up the name, we'll get back to you with an email or letter like the following:

Subject: Keeping in Touch

Hi (your name),

Good news! The Alumni Association has a good address for (your friend's name)! However, our policy here at the Alumni Association is that we cannot directly disclose an address. (Privacy of our alumni.) But...what we CAN provide you is the next best thing! Let us forward your letter for you!

Who Are You Trying to Correspond With?:
Provide the Alumni Records Department your correspondence inquiry details:
1.  Person's Name (first, middle, last)
2.  Degree info/date is also helpful in assuring we have the right person.
3.  Any other information that would be helpful to the Records Department so we can properly forward your mail piece.

Forwarding Correspondence Preparation:
A.  Prepare the letter to your friend.
B.  Place your letter in an envelope (Please seal your envelope––your letter is not for us!)
C.  Place the correct postage on your envelope for forwarding. Pre-postage helps you and us get it there!
D.  Then place your letter/envelope in a bigger envelope addressed to:

University of Illinois Alumni Association
Find-a-Friend
c/o Records Manager
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
601 South Lincoln Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

The Alumni Association Records Department will then address your mail piece and forward it on!

If you have any questions, please call us at 217/333-1471 or 800/355-2586 or send e-mail to alumni@uillinois.edu