Ron Daniels hit the road this spring to meet alumni and friends and share his vision for the university.

From recruiting top students to planning events, every year, thousands of alumni around the world donate their time and talent to Johns Hopkins.

Too many organizations find themselves in a catch-22: They desperately need volunteers but lack the resources necessary to recruit them and put them to work. Last spring, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Engr ’64, launched the NYC Civic Corps to tackle that problem.

A few years after graduation, Steve Naron landed a job as a high-level consultant with the Center for Naval Analyses, thanks in part to his Johns Hopkins education. But when the center shipped him off to Toastmasters International, the public-speaking organization, he realized one thing he hadn’t learned in school was how to present effectively in front of a crowd.

It is the story of the perception-defying Troop 759, a group of four city kids and their two troop leaders, as they head off to summer camp.

Recent graduate and organ virtuoso Felix Hell has the ability to be one of the leading organists of his generation according to Peabody’s Donald Sutherland.

Rachel Breman is the program technical adviser for Infante Sano, a nonprofit that works with mothers and infants in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Interaction between young and old–and the relationships and experiences that grow from it–is central to the ethos of a pioneering K – 8 public charter school, launched in 2000 by Catherine and Peter Whitehouse.

Soon after Taylor Hanex started playing the family’s Baldwin piano, it became clear that she had the talent, fortitude, and mind to become a professional musician. Those gifts (and her parents’ dedication) carried the pre-teen to the Peabody Preparatory, and later, to receive her bachelor’s from the Peabody Conservatory in 1975 and her master’s in piano performance in 1978.

Like most college seniors, Nirosha Mahendraratnam, A&S ’09, spent her last year at Homewood thinking about the future. But she wasn’t pondering her next step. Instead, as co-chair of the Senior Class Gift, she focused on what her class could do for the next generation of Blue Jays.