Word: reunioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the nation's oldest municipal political party, will celebrate its 35th anniversary next week with a party organizers are billing as a reunion of legendary city political figures, many of whom have not been close politically for 15 years...
...They're coming home and getting together as one big happy family," Kistiakowsky said, adding "It's still too early to tell if this represents a political as well as a social reunion...
...certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like a class reunion as men greet one another after a year apart...
...wonder the westerners weren't watching the field. Instead their attention focused on the reunion among undergrads after a long summer (classes don't start until October 1) and among graduates after years. Several thousand miles and 49 years later, was the Cardinal's journey in vain? The band would say no; they showed Boston that no matter who wins the game, a jubilee is anybody's ball...
Behind the gala scene, fund drive officials will use more subtle tactics to encourage liberal giving. One of Harvard's oldest fundraising strategies has been to keep totals of each class's gifts, prompting a one-upsmanship that keeps more dollars rolling in each year. While usually only reunion classes feel pressured to beat the previous year's total, the five-year fund drive gives all classes a chance to forge ahead in the money race. The "challenge of giving"--not to mention the "pleasures of tax cuts"--is a theme echoed by many officials. Olney points out that after...