Four recent alumni serve 4-year terms, one per year, typically from the graduating class.

Tickets, $1,200, or $250 for recent alumni, from (718)990-6776.

Capital Law is perhaps best known for public law, as many recent alumni have gone on to prominent political and judicial positions.

On the wall just by the front door is a snap of the club's finest recent alumnus: Danny Care.

More than 70% of recent alumni earned graduate or professional degrees within 10 years of graduation.

And the club's Web site tells the stories of recent alumni who are making a mark in the business world.

But it delights and indeed inspires more recent alumni.

By the mid-1980's, however, Princeton students and recent alumni were increasingly finding such statements anachronistic or worse.

The competition is open to current students and recent alumni of the Conservatory.

It's particularly disturbing because President Bush is one of their recent alumni.