What to do if you are notified that an alum is deceased?

If an alum becomes deceased – administrators should notify the HAA at clubs@harvard.edu and Alumni & Development Services at ads@harvard.edu. Please include an obituary or death notice if possible. The Alumni & Development Services team will tag the alum as deceased in the master database.

If your Club/SIG uses the full HAA website tools (AlumniMagnet), a “deceased” tag will be sent to your database via the daily feed. The record will not be deleted from the website. There will be a “d” tag added to the “main_lost” field of their account. They will no longer receive emails.
 

If the deceased alum has not conducted any transactions on the site, the administrator will be able to delete their record. We recommend that the administrator leave their accounts in the database if they were members or conducted any financial transactions to avoid any confusion with the financial reporting.