Friday, June 6
8:00am - 11:00pm
Check-in at Headquarters
Cabot Library, Science Center
Please come to headquarters to check in when you arrive on campus. You will receive your name badge, favor, Reunion materials, and your House/dorm room key and assignment, if you are staying on campus. Luggage storage is available on-site. Learn more and pre-purchase your luggage storage here.
8:30 - 10:30am
Class ‘85 Harvard Campus Climate Bus Tour
During this exclusive tour, planned by ClassACT HR85 and guided by an Office for Sustainability staff member, you will learn how Harvard is putting into action on campus the University’s Sustainability Action Plan, its Fossil Fuel Free by 2050 Goal and Sustainable Building Standards. Learn about the House renewal program, visit the Science & Engineering Complex in Allston, preview new buildings under construction, and hear how the Science Center, Memorial Hall and Gund Hall were updated for sustainability. The tour will end near Harvard Yard in time for the All Alumni Parade Line-Up. Registration for Bus Tour and a confirmed reservation are required. Due to very limited seating (only 28), we ask that you sign up only if you are committed to attend. We will maintain a waitlist to fill last-minute cancellations.
9:00 - 10:00 am
No Writer's Block Here: Authors from the Class of 1985
Emerson Hall 105
Our classmates have excelled in capturing important stories of our time, and in creating new ones. Join our panelists to hear what, why, and how they have chosen to write:
Clara Bingham, on Writing Oral Histories: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Nicholas Dawidoff, on Telling True Stories of American Outsiders
Liese Schwarz, on The Literary Hobble of Perfectionism — and Some Ways Around It
Gerard Waggett, on How Soap Operas and Comic Books Inspire My Writing
Life After 60
Emerson Hall 210
What does it mean to meet this new decade of our lives with purpose, humor, and heart? Join four of our classmates for a conversation on the joys, challenges, and transformations that have shaped our lives in recent years.
Daniel Kaplan: What Some People Will Do To Get on a Reunion Panel: Adventures in the Shadow of Sarcoma
Donney Leffall: Are you certain you asked the right person, I don’t even admit that I am 60?
Harold Lewis: Do Good, Get Better, and Live Well
Jocelyn Startz: Why I'm No Longer Snobby About Hobbies
10:30am
Alumni Parade Line-Up
Various Locations
View the parade map to learn where to line up to process with your class!
11:00am - 1:00pm
Harvard Alumni Day Parade & Program
Tercentenary Theatre
All Harvard alumni are invited to join the Harvard Alumni Association for the fourth annual Harvard Alumni Day, a day for and in celebration of Harvard’s vibrant, global alumni community! Suggested dress code is smart casual.
1:00-3:00pm
Harvard Alumni Day Yard Party
Old Yard
Join your friends—and make new ones—at the all-alumni Yard Party with food and beverage trucks (including beer and wine), including some local favorites. Suggested dress code is smart casual.
2:30-3:30pm
Film Screening of CLIFFE NOTES: Stories from the Radcliffe Class of 1975
Radcliffe Yard (in the Knafel Center)
In partnership with the Radcliffe class of 1975, the Radcliffe Institute invites you to a film screening of CLIFFE NOTES: Stories from the Radcliffe Class of 1975. The film is a short documentary based on interviews conducted as part of the Radcliffe ’75 Oral History Project. Directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan ’77, in collaboration with Executive Producers Martha Sandweiss ’75, Alison Graham ’75, and Joan Porter MacIver ’75, the film documents the college experiences of women in the class, during a pivotal time in the University’s history, as captured through their interviews by fellow classmates. A brief Q&A with Pamela Hogan will follow the film. All are welcome. Please register here if you plan to join us as space is limited.
3:00-6:00pm
Harvard Alumni Day Afternoon Programming
Various locations
View the comprehensive list of Harvard Alumni Day symposia sessions, Shared Interest Group meet-ups, and reunions-wide gatherings!
4:00pm
Class Survey Results
Sever Hall 113
What do sex, John Denver, cats, and toilets have in common? You’ll have to attend this year’s 40th Class Survey Presentation to find out.
3:30-5:00pm
Radcliffe Institute Open House
Radcliffe Yard
The Radcliffe Institute invites you to join us for an open house in Radcliffe Yard to reconnect with friends and classmates and to learn more about the work of the Radcliffe Institute today. Light refreshments will be provided in Fay House; selections from the Radcliffe College archives will be on display in the Schlesinger Library; and the Institute’s current gallery exhibitions, Illuminate: Contextualizing Asian American Women’s Stories through the Archives and Talismans (Kupol LR 3303) will be on view. Please register here if you plan to join us. This is a drop-in event, so please feel free to arrive at any time during event hours.
4:00pm
Singles & Solo Travelers Mixer
Lehman Hall 201
Join alumni from the Classes of 1990, 1985 and 1980 for this social gathering. Free snacks and a cash bar will be available. Suggested dress code is smart casual.
4:30-5:30
Alumni CAN (Climate Action Now): A Lightning Presentations & Networking Event
Lowell Lecture Hall
See for yourself that Harvard alumni are not backing down from climate challenges. Ten speakers representing four HR Classes – including our very own James Jampel, Donney Leffall, Devin Reese, Lorie Ribeiro – will briefly share the climate actions they are engaged in now. You will also hear from the primary champions of climate and sustainability at Harvard: Prof. Jim Stock, Vice-Provost of Climate and Sustainability and the Director of the Harvard Salata Institute; and Heather Henriksen, Chief Sustainability Officer and Managing Director of the Office for Sustainability. Get informed. Get inspired. Get connected with alumni who are taking climate action. Networking opportunity begins at 4:00pm. Open to all alumni. Registration is encouraged but not required. Sponsored by HR ’75, HR ’85, ClassACT HR73, ClassACT HR90, Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment (HACE).
7:00-11:00pm
Class Dinner & Party
Smith Campus Center
Tonight is all about catching up with classmates and enjoying entertainment provided by talented classmates! Come ready to mingle and dine with old (and new!) friends! And if you're wondering what to wear, dress up or dress down—it's up to you! Come as you are.
