Word: reuniones
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Embracing the slogan “Green is the New Crimson,” the Reunion Committee is prioritizing environmental awareness in planning the reunion. Alumni are all encouraged to take Harvard’s Sustainability Pledge, use biodiesel fuel buses, eat local foods, and limit their usage of paper and plastic, among many other initiatives...
...green initiative is just one of the many “class firsts” that the Class of 1984 have initiated in their reunions. The Class was the first to have a memorial service, typically not held until the twenty-fifth, as early as the fifth reunion and in subsequent reunions...
...planning process, the Committee has limited its usage of paper, mobilizing e-mail and Facebook. The Committee even plans to follow up with their classmates in the hopes that they will change their habits based on what they learned at the reunion to offset the reunion’s usage of carbon dioxide by next year...
...Reunion Committee for 1984’s fifth reunion felt that there was enough of a need and desire for such a service and that the deceased class members should not have to wait until the twenty-fifth reunion to be honored. The class was also the first to extend its reunion to Sunday brunch, instead of having the last reunion activity on Saturday night. Many of these have subsequently become traditions, and other classes have since followed suit, making the Class of 1984 trendsetters in the reunion-planning arena...
...We’re quirky and socially conscious and innovators. We tend to add our own flavors to things,” said Hortzworth. The drive to plan good reunions, even if it means deviating from the standard Harvard reunion program, stems from the desire to include as many alumni as possible and to cater to their needs...