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, favor, and additional Reunion materials.
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
Location TBD
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
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.
3:00-6:00pm (TENTATIVE)
Looping Shuttles
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.