A Legacy That Never Left Second Avenue

The Cass Tech Alumni Association proudly supports the Cass Tech Harp & Vocal Centennial celebration while continuing its mission of connecting generations of Technicians through scholarship, service, tradition, and community.

Long after graduation, Cass Tech continues to hold a place in people’s lives.

You see it when alumni run into each other after decades apart and immediately fall back into old stories and memories. You see it when graduates who built careers across the country still proudly mention Cass Tech whenever someone asks where they’re from. For many alumni, Cass Tech was never simply a school they attended. It became part of their identity.

That lasting connection is what continues to drive the Cass Tech Alumni Association.

For years, the organization has worked to keep alumni connected while supporting the students and programs that continue to shape Cass Tech today. Through scholarships, community support, alumni events, volunteer efforts, and fundraising, the Association helps strengthen the relationship between past and present generations of Technicians.

The organization is also proud to support the Cass Tech Harp & Vocal Centennial celebration, recognizing the extraordinary impact the program has had on generations of students and alumni. As singers return to Detroit from across the country to celebrate 100 years of music, discipline, performance, and sisterhood, the support behind the event reflects something deeply rooted within the Cass Tech community: people continuing to show up for the programs that once poured into them.

And Cass Tech alumni have always shown up for one another.

Some return to mentor students. Others sponsor events, volunteer their time, support scholarships, or quietly help behind the scenes because they want future students to have the same opportunities and experiences they once had themselves. No matter when they graduated, there is a shared understanding that being part of Cass Tech means remaining connected to something larger than yourself.

That feeling has a way of staying with people.

At alumni events like the Annual Pancake Breakfast, reunions, and community gatherings, conversations often pick up exactly where they left off years earlier. People reconnect not only with classmates, but with an earlier version of themselves tied to Detroit, to Second Avenue, and to a school that helped shape their confidence, ambition, creativity, and lifelong friendships.

It is difficult to explain that feeling to people who did not experience it themselves.

“When you know, you know.”

Even as the school has evolved over the decades, the pride people carry in being part of Cass Tech has remained remarkably consistent. Across generations, there is still a deep respect for the standards, traditions, talent, and work ethic associated with the Cass Tech name.

Under the leadership of President Leslie Andrews, the Alumni Association continues building on that foundation while helping ensure future generations of students have access to the same sense of opportunity, connection, and belonging that alumni still carry with them today.

As the Harp & Vocal Centennial celebration brings generations together once again, the Cass Tech Alumni Association stands as a reminder that some communities do not fade with time. They grow stronger because people continue choosing to return, reconnect, and invest in what once invested in them.

Because for Cass Tech alumni, Second Avenue is never just where they came from.

It stays with them.

From Second Ave. to the world. Shaped by it. Forever connected.