    Sentence 1:1 see the rather boring  point about using alumni to cover both  men and women, and | quite agree that  the use of relatively newer and less  widely used terms like authoress,  aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a  deliberate, unwarranted attempt to  identity someone as a temale; but a  graduate of the feminine gender is a  woman graduate’ = alumna . the ‘first  woman dancer in a ballet company’ is a  prima ballerina (I've never heard of a  prime ballerino ), and a ‘woman opera  star’ is a diva or prima donna . |  hesitate to point out that we use prima  donna of men, too, because my critics  will say that they disapprove of the  term's second tile as designating a  temperamental person of either sex.