Word: funfest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been very conscious to emphasize the intellectual side of the Reunion. They really do want to talk to undergraduates and to get away from all of a reunion's connotations of fun." Where last year's reunioning Class of '45 found themselves burdened with the heavily criticized theme Funfest '70, the more pragmatic men of '46 have decided not to bother with the foolishness of a reunion theme...
Surely someone. But not Hugh Calkins. Lofting a FunFest '45 beer can, he says, "I don't see any reason not to have a reunion." To which Bob T.P. Storer can only add. "A successful guy has lots of friends. I think it's just great...
...impressed any longer. Except for a panel discussion on Monday, he has boycotted the class's 25th reunion. "The whole notion of 'Funfest '45' is an obscenity in a time like like this." he says. "The announcements they sent were like those of damn-fool pantyraid collegians. It's proof these guys never got over being Harvard...
William A. Barron HI '45. FunFest chairman, said. "What we're trying to achieve is some sort of balance between having fun and learning what's on students' minds...
Among the notables in the class is Mitchell Goodman, a codefendant in Dr. Benjamin Spock's draft conspiracy trial. Goodman said he is not attending FunFest '45. which he called "an obscenity in a time like this," but will participate in a panel discussion at 10:45 a.m. today in Lowell Lecture Hall...