Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schedule for the reunion is much the same as in previous years. The reunion theme has been dispensed with, after last year's "Fun Fest '45" attracted some adverse comment. But the dominant motif continues to be fun, food and alcohol, from the vichyssoise and cold cuts lunch for the entire family yesterday to lunch and cocktails Thursday for wives and college-age children while the classmates enjoy another private spread in the Sever Quad. In between, there is food and liquor atHarkness Commons, the Palmer-Dixon Courts, the Hasty Pudding. Lehman Hall, the Union. Essex Country Club...
Every year the 25th Reunion Class spends $250,000 in treating itself to what one member of the Class of '44 called, "the best week of my life." As far as most undergraduates are concerned, Reunion Week only means that they are summarily forced out of their rooms hours after their final exams are over to make room for the visiting hoardes. For the graduating class itself, the Reunion is simply another obstacle that gets in their way as they nervously guide bewildered parents through the narrow and overcrowded streets. And as for the College's few extant radicals...
...could upset an alumni wife (like scum in the shower stalls and marijuana seeds in the bureau drawers), and a few dozen of the best of these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew captains who supervise the work effort, and the promised tips of financially flush alumni are the oft-mentioned carrots that gets everyone on the stick...
Theoretically, at least, I worked clean-up and reunion two years solely for The Experience. But actually, I, like everyone else, did it for the money. That's how I found myself driving an oversized station wagon shuttling alumni and their families from the B-school to their dorms. "So you're a Harvard student?" they would ask, while I inwardly smiled at their shock of irrecognition...
...reunion is full of sideshows and of the half of them that are actually prearranged, one of the best is this boat tour that leaves the docks of the Manchester Yacht Club under the direction of a number of neighborhood women. Ostensibly the tours, led by bossy old ladies with cutesy-tough names like Muggins and Bet, ostensibly introduce interested alumni to the fine homes that overlook the coastline's coves. But, as Muggins confided to her coworkers, "Hah, I don't waste my time gushing on about all those old houses. I just let 'em all chew about their...