Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factor in the success of the Fund during the past year, according to Fund director Schuyler Hollingsworth '40, was new fund-raising techniques such as the establishment of a "Presidential Associates" program. Under this scheme, as described by Gordon, any alumnus who gives $5000 or more during a non-reunion year becomes a "Presidential Associate"-which entitles him to a free dinner with the President of Harvard and football tickets on the fifty-yard line...
...class that forced the dining halls to save $750 dollars a week by omitting extra cookies, deserts, bread and cereals from their wartime menus, has also exhibited a corresponding practicality in its plans for the week's festivities. This year, the traditional reunion hat is a baseball cap, so that classmates can still wear it to the ball park or the golf course when the whole affair is over. And the Harvard emblem has been stitched on extra lightly so that it need not permanently brand its wearer...
...while the Reunion Committee hasn't yet taken the drastic step of watering the riverfulls of drinks that will be consumed, they have decided "to save money this year, by going to plastic cups from glass," according to Robert MacNamara, a Boston attorney in the class who's made all the arrangements for the week's liquid refreshment. (One thing, though, that MacNamara probably didn't foresee-and perhaps he never even realized-was the panicky rumor that raced through parts of the class of '71 earlier in the week. Word, it seems, got around that it was the Robert...
Percentage-wise, fewer of the men of '46 are returning to reunion as compared to more spirited classes like '42 or '43, but, in terms of actual numbers, this year's is probably the largest ever. For that, credit must be given to the crisis) and many kids are returntility. Each alumnus averages slightly over four children (most also list overpopulation as the world's number one crisis) and many of them are rterrning with their dads for a taste of the serious "fun." Which shouldn't be at all surprising, for, reading through the class biographies, one discovers that...
...class of '46, the 25th Reunion is one more such return, another chance to survey their pasts andtheir futures. They're not a class, perhaps, in the traditional sense. Maybe, in some dim way, they even foreshadow new legions of alumni. But then, who knows why they all decide to return this second time? One alumnus made the decision only after seeing Love Story. "It made me nostalgic," he told the secretary. "And are you going to bring your family?" she asked. "Do I have to?" he replied...