New Dates for our 60th Reunion
Dear Classmates,
We hope you are well. The HAA has now moved our Reunion schedule to one week after Commencement, and our Events will now be two days later, beginning Wednesday night June 2nd, and going through Friday lunch time. We hope they will also allow us to go through Friding evening as well, so we can have the Dinner as planned. The HAA will have their Annual Meeting as part of our Friday Lunch.
If the HAA decides early in 2021 that they do not feel on-campus attendance would be advisable, the schedule below will be virtual, and the Events will all be live-streamed (not on Zoom). Thus, you would be able to view all the Event we have listed below remotely. Of course, we would take special social distincing precautions for the protection of the actual participants.
If HAA determines that an in-person Reunion is possible, you will receive another invitation with additional details to attend for those two days as well. The Events would still be streamed for those who cannot attend. Either way, we hope you will be able to participate in our 60th Reunion in some capacity.
You are Invited to Attend the 60th Reunion of the Class of 1961
Later this Fall, we will again ask for your personal plans
to attend, Virtually or In-Person
You Can Come for a Single Day or for the Full Reunion
This is a Significant Reunion, and the Best Opportunity
the Class of 1961 to Get Together
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Day |
Event (assuming in-person, on-campus Reunion is approved) |
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Wednesday 1 pm to 5 pm |
Do you like to sing? Join us for the 1961 (plus guests) and other Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Chorus Rehearsal (First Rehearsal will be April 24th) |
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7 pm to 9:30 pm |
After Registering at the Doubletree (where we are staying), everyone can meet and greet at a Reception: open bar, food, no dress code, and ample sitting areas for conversation. |
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Thursday 10 am |
Memorial Service with Judith Semple Greene, Doug Lind, and Hank Zoob, with Anthem sung by Class Choir. Class Photo after the Service. |
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Transportation from Class Photo to Radcliffe Institute (Radcliffe only) Walk from Class Photo to Harvard Lunch, near Memorial Hall |
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Lunch |
Catch up with Classmates at Informal lunches: a Radcliffe-only Lunch, and a Harvard Lunch with guests, at two locations (assuming in-person) |
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Approximately 3:30 |
Transportation from lunches back to Doubletree |
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Transportation from Doubletree to evening event |
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5 pm |
1961 Class Reception, likely in Hockey Rink or Indoor Track, followed by |
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6 pm |
Dinner with Concert after dessert by 40-member alumni HGC and RCS Chorus, including instrumental accompaniment, Jody Simpson conducting |
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Transportation back to Doubletree from evening event |
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Friday Morning |
Class Member Panel on their Discoveries in Science and Exploration of Personal Frontiers, or Dean Doyle on Engineering Sciences (Allston) |
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Hear a Presentation by Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy on Artificial Intelligence |
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12 to 12:30 |
Transportation from Presentation to Harvard Alumni Lunch |
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1:30 pm to 2 pm |
Harvard Alumni Lunch with Classmates at 1961 Table |
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2 pm to 2:30 pm |
Transportation to Allston Campus or to DoubleTree |
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2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Possible Tour of the new School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), at the Allston campus. Dean Doyle will speak |
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5:00 pm |
Final Class Dinner, Presentation of Restored Dioramas by Todd Lee, Class Presentation, Comedy by Classmates Cathcart and Klein, The Meaning of Life. For those who are able to partake, there will be a DJ with 1950s style Dancing after the Dinner |
Results of September 4, 2020 Survey
Based on replies to our recent survey, we conclude that at least 50 Classmates would like to return to Cambridge, assuming vaccines are widely available. With their guests, we would likely have a minimum of 75 in-person attendees. If that number doubles, due to improvements in therapeutics and general availability of vaccines, we might expect up to 150, which would fully meet everyone’s expectations for an in-person Reunion. For those preferring to participate virtually during the same two days, we hope to provide an enjoyable alternative.
We have told the HAA that we would be willing to move both the virtual and in-person Events into the summer months of July or August, if that allows us to have an in-person Reunion. Finally, we have suggested holding all our events, except the Wednesday Memorial Service and lunches, across the river at the Hockey Rink, Indoor Track, or in an outdoor tent at the McCurdy Track. Perhaps this would put us within walking distance of the DoubleTree and also the new Allston Engineering Center. Thank you for helping us plan our 60th Reunion. We are optimistic.
