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...This class just didn't seem to want to get involved," explained Diana Statler, one of the secretaries who man the Reunion's 1 Court Street office. "They all seemed to be too busy. They just never felt like a class...
...retain their sense of character, the class has attempted to steer the course of their Reunion onto a somewhat less frivolous route than might be expected. A crash course of seminars and panels has been organized to tell them where students are at and where administrators intend them to go. (Topics range from "Have We Moved Backward or Forward in 25 Years?", a Winthrop House discussion led by Physics professor Gerald Holton, to "The Spiraling Costs of Higher Education and How To Pay For It," by John Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty...
Insists Caroline Head, the Reunion's senior secretary, "This class has 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...
...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...