Thursday, June 5
8:00am
Bus departs for Harvard Faculty Club
Hyatt Regency Boston Cambridge
8:00am - 4:00pm
Check-in at Headquarters
Harvard Faculty Club
Please come to headquarters to check in when you arrive. You will receive your name badge, favor, and additional Reunion materials.
8:30 - 9:30am
Continental Breakfast
Main Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club
9:30 - 10:30am
Memorial Service
Reading Room, Harvard Faculty Club
10:30am
Class Photo
Patio, Harvard Faculty Club, no signage permitted*
10:30am - 4:30pm
Radcliffe Hospitality Space Available
Library, Harvard Faculty Club
11:00am - 12:00pm
Class Program: "Harvard's Problems" with Professor Harvey C. Mansfield
North Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club
Harvey C. Mansfield, ’53, Research Professor of Government at Harvard. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism, and in favor of a constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power and is a translator of Machiavelli and Tocqueville. In 2006 he published a book on manliness, and in 2010 one on Tocqueville. His most recent book is Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth; Creating the Modern World. He was chairman of the Government department from 1973 to 1977, has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, and served on the Advisory Council of the NEH. In 2004 he received the National Humanities Medal from the President, and in 2007 delivered the annual Thomas Jefferson lecture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2011 he was awarded a Bradley Prize. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. But he has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949 and was on the faculty there from 1962, retiring as Research Professor in 2023.
12:00 - 2:00pm
Class Luncheon
Main Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club
2:00 - 3:15pm
Class Program: “What is a Classic? The Case of Bob Dylan” with Professor Richard F. Thomas
North Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club
Richard F. Thomas, born in London and brought up in New Zealand, is George Martin Lane Professor of Classics at Harvard University, where he has taught for 45 years (1977–84, 1987–present) and where his teaching and research interests are focused on Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature, intertextuality, translation and translation theory, the reception of classical literature in all periods, and the works of Bob Dylan. Books include Virgil and the Augustan Reception (Cambridge 2001), and two co-edited volumes, Classics and the Uses of Reception (Blackwell 2006) and Bob Dylan’s Performance Artistry (Oral Tradition 22.1 (2007)), editions and commentaries on Virgil, Georgics (1988) and Horace, Odes 4 and Carmen Saeculare (2011). He co-edited the three-volume Virgil Encyclopedia (2014) and wrote Why Bob Dylan Matters (2017).
3:15 - 4:30pm
Casual Time
Main Dining Room, Harvard Faculty Club
4:30pm
Bus departs for Hyatt Regency Boston Cambridge
Harvard Faculty Club
4:30-5:30pm
Class Committee Meeting
Room 225, Harvard Faculty Club
Please note: this meeting is closed to the 1955 class committee members only.
5:30pm
Bus departs for Johnston Gate
Hyatt Regency Boston Cambridge and Harvard Faculty Club
6:00 - 9:00pm
Clambake Dinner
Straus Tent
8:00pm
Bus loop to Hyatt Regency Boston Cambridge begins
Johnston Gate
9:30pm
Bus loop to Hyatt Regency Boston Cambridge concludes
Johnston Gate
