    Sentence 1:1 sce the rather boring point abadg..ising  alumni to cover both men and women, arid't 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  identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the  feminine gender is a ‘woman graduate! = alumna ,  the ‘fir  prima ballerina (I've never heard of a prime         woman dancer ina ballee compariy’ is a    ballerino ),-and a ‘woman opera star’ is a diva or  prima donna . I 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 life as    designating a temperamentil person of either sex.         Sentence 2: Alumna means a’ graduate of any gender.