During the fall of 2003, the Office of Institutional Advancement, in conjunction with the National Alumni Association, established a student organization called "Livingston's Early Alumni Development" or "LEAD."  The purpose of the LEAD organization is to develop and strengthen relationships between UWA students and the National Alumni Association.  LEAD members are given opportunities to serve as ambassadors for the alumni association, and they also assist alumni chapters in planning and conducting events and fundraisers.  Through this organization, LEAD students are given the opportunity to network with UWA alumni from all over the Southeast.  Meeting twice each month, the students commit themselves to making the organization one of the best on campus.  In addition to attending and volunteering to work at alumni chapter meetings and events, the LEAD organization hosts a dinner banquet each spring.  In 2004, LEAD hosted Mr. Scott Tew ('89 & '91), North American Director of Communication for CIBA Chemical as the guest speaker for an elegant dinner meeting.  The event brought more than forty alums back to campus.  Many of these alums had not been back since graduation.  The 2005 LEAD dinner banquet featured Mr. Bill Sager ('77), Chief Partner of Your Insurance Partners, Inc. and former mayor of Winfield, Alabama.  In response to the immediate positive impact that the organization has had for the National Alumni Association, LEAD was awarded the "Most Outstanding UWA Organization" and the 2004 National Alumni Association's Annual Meeting and Awards Program during Homecoming.