65th Reunion

Wednesday, June 4

5:15pm

Shuttles from Hyatt Regency and Oxford Street Garage to Harvard Faculty Club

Shuttles leave Hyatt Regency and Oxford Street Garage for the Harvard Faculty Club. (Just tell the Oxford Garage attendant that you are there for the Reunion and there will be no parking charge.)

5:45-9:00pm

Check-in at Harvard Faculty Club

Please check in when you arrive at the Harvard Faculty Club. You will receive your name badge and additional Reunion materials.
NOTE: from 4:00 TO 8:00 P.M., CHECK-IN IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE CABOT LIBRARY, SCIENCE CENTER HEADQUARTERS

6:00-9:00pm

Welcome Reception

Harvard Faculty Club

The event will include a dinner buffet.

8:00pm and 9:00pm

Shuttles from Harvard Faculty Club to Oxford St. Garage and Hyatt Regency 

Shuttles leave HFC for Oxford Street Garage and Hyatt Regency

Thursday, June 5

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 and additional Reunion materials. ONLY FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT RECEIVE THEIR CHECK-IN MATERIAL AT WEDNESDAY NIGHT RECEPTION.

Headquarters is the place to go for any down-time (rest, relaxation, etc.) you may seek during our Reunion. Seating and amenities are available.

8:00am

Shuttles from Hyatt Regency and Oxford Street Garage to Campus 

Shuttles leave Hyatt Regency and Oxford Street Garage for breakfast at tent behind Sever Hall.

8:30-9:30am

Breakfast

Sever Tent

9:30-10:30am

House Renovation Update

Science Center Hall D

11:00am - 12:00pm

Memorial Service

Memorial Church

12:00-2:00pm

Class Luncheon

Harvard Hall, 201 and 202

This will be a boxed luncheon.

2:00-3:30pm

Tour of Houghton Library, including the Solomon Collection of Children’s Literature 

Houghton Library (Note that the impressive and unusual Solomon/1960 Gate is at the nearby crossing of Quincy Street between Lamont Library and the Harvard Faculty Club.)

This program will be an opportunity to visit the renovated Houghton Library, including an exhibition of children’s books and illustrations donated to the library by classmate Peter Solomon and his wife Susan.  Due to space limitations, reservations will be required.

*Please note the upper floors of the Library are not handicapped-accessible. 

2:00-3:00pm

Crimson Society Program "Tariffs and Global Trade: Navigating a Shifting World Order"

Lowell Lecture Hall

This program features Mark Wu, AB'95, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Faculty Director for the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

3:30-4:30pm

Crimson Society Program with Robert Darnton AB ’60 "Libraries as Time Machines"

Lowell Lecture Hall

Bob’s talk, entitled "Libraries as Time Machines" will offer reflections on his experiences with Harvard’s libraries, the long-term history of libraries and the future of libraries.

4:00pm

Shuttles to Hyatt Regency from Solomon Gate @ 11 Quincy St.

5:30pm 

Shuttles leave for campus from Hyatt Regency with stops at Oxford & Kirkland, and Harvard Yard (via Johnston Gate entrance on Mass Ave.)

6:00-9:00pm

Class Dinner

Annenberg Hall in Memorial Hall (west end, across from Sanders Theater)

8:00-9:30pm

Shuttles on loop to Hyatt Regency from Oxford & Kirkland, and Harvard Yard (via Johnston Gate entrance on Mass Ave.) every 15 minutes

Friday, June 6

8:00am - 4:00pm

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 and additional Reunion materials. Luggage storage is available on-site. Learn more and pre-purchase your luggage storage here.

Headquarters is the place to go for any down-time (rest, relaxation, etc.) you may seek during our Reunion. Seating and amenities are available.

8:00am

Shuttles from Hyatt Regency and Oxford Street Garage to Campus 

Shuttles leave Hyatt Regency and Oxford Street Garage for breakfast at tent behind Sever Hall.

8:30-9:30am

Breakfast

Sever Tent

European Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:30am

Crimson Society Program "The Ghost Budget: Paying for America's Perpetual Wars"

Lowell Lecture Hall

This program features Linda Bilmes, AB’80, MBA’84, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer In Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.  She will be discussing her forthcoming book, The Ghost Budget: Paying for America’s Wars (Cambridge U Press) which examines how we paid for all US wars prior to 9/11 and how and why this changed after 9/11 … and the serious implications of this shift. 

10:30am

Alumni Parade Line-up

Old Yard

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 with awarding of the Harvard medals, remarks by President Garber and by keynote speaker Atul Gawande, acclaimed surgeon, writer, and public health leader.  Surely Dr. Gawande will be responsive to the state of health care in the USA today. Suggested dress code is smart casual.

1:00-3:00pm

Tree Spread Luncheon

Holden Tent

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.

3:00pm

Shuttle loop to Hyatt Regency.  Pick up location Harvard Yard (via Johnston Gate entrance on Massachusetts Ave.)

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!

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.