Tartan Day in Balboa Park, San Diego

[FossilHunter]

Alumni is not a word we use over here, well at least I have never come across it, apart that I see it used on this website in the USA, so I am not really certain sure of your terminology. So in Uk terms, a school tie is for present pupils and an "old school tie" is for past pupils. The colours used are usually and in my experience, VERY different from each other.

In the US, Alumni would be a former student or graduate of a school, college, or university. Wikipedia suggests that it’s more or less synonymous with “old boy” in British English though it’s use may be a little more expansive as it is used for just about any type of school.

Based on your previous post, using American terminology, you would be considered an alumnus of the RAC and I suppose I would be and old boy of San Diego State University.