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Like the building of the floats for Southern California's Tournament of Roses parade, alumni reunions begin even before the reunion week the previous year. Major reunion gift committees usually get organized even earlier, and some begin meeting and planning two years in advance of the reunions...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Reunion Gifts Drive Week Of Partying | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

...reunion classes like to emphasize a personal approach to soliciting gifts. Many gift chairs say they try to match up prospective donors with solicitors who may be friends. And face-to-face meetings are practically protocol for any gift larger than...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Reunion Gifts Drive Week Of Partying | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

Radcliffe classes often convince as many as 70 percent of their classmates to contribute, but the size of the gifts is substantially smaller. While Taylor says the Harvard Class of '68 is likely to approach $6 million, Ferrell P. McClean '68 and Susan S. Wallach '68, reunion gift co-chairs for the Radcliffe class, say they were content to exceed their goal of $200,000 in gifts...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Reunion Gifts Drive Week Of Partying | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

Despite the subsidies for major reunions, alumni pay most of the costs. For a family attending the entire 25th reunion and living in Harvard housing this year, the cost...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Reunion Gifts Drive Week Of Partying | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

...remember during my 25th thinking that the cost of my reunion and flight from England [where I was living] amounted to my tuition during my first year at Harvard," says Jean Leventhal '63, who is now chair of her 30th reunion...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Reunion Gifts Drive Week Of Partying | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

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