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Websites like Classmates and Reunion.com are tailor-made tools in this quest for another chance at romance with a school-day ex. These cybersubstitutes for the class reunion offer millions of members access to former classmates who have registered on the sites. They entice recruits looking for love to join with testimonials from reunited couples...
...course. The divorce rate in second marriages is about 15% higher than in first ones, and matches between old lovers and friends aren't immune. A lonely man in Taos, N.M., in his late 40s jumped into a relationship with a former classmate he saw at a high school reunion in Dallas. After a whirlwind courtship, they married, and she moved in with him in Taos. But they quickly encountered difficulties, primarily over money. Within six months, the marriage was kaput. "People change," says Schwartz. "Experiences change them, and they wind up with emotional baggage and history. In the glow...
...institution.”Lewis M. Schneider ’56 wrote to his classmates on an online forum on the Post.Harvard website that he was “furious” about the resignation. Schneider wrote that he will be making a token $1 contribution to his class reunion gift, and encouraged others to join him.Byron R. Wien ’54, the chief investment strategist at Westport, Connecticut-based Pequot Capital who has served as a member of the executive committee of the Committee of University Resources (CUR), an advisory group of major alumni donors, says that...
Worried that reunion events would cater to straight married couples and their children, some gay and lesbian alumni have stayed away from their class reunions in past years. Realizing this, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) began almost 10 years ago to organize events for gay and lesbian alumni during reunions, according to HGLC President Thomas H. Parry ’74. Once reunions included these events, a greater number of gay and lesbian alumni felt more comfortable attending their reunions, Parry says.Since 2000, alumni groups have expanded beyond the HGLC to include groups based on ethnic or religious...
...Harvard’s Class of 1956 comes doddering back to Cambridge for its 50th reunion this week, many of the old men (and the women of Radcliffe’s Class of 1956) are less than overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today’s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk...