70th Reunion

Class of 1955

Our 70th Reunion is June 5-6! You’ll find our tentative schedule below. If you have any questions about the schedule, feel free to call our office at 617-496-7001, or email our class inbox at 70threunion_haa@harvard.edu. We can't wait to see you!

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Reunion Packages Price Breakdown

Please be aware that early bird pricing will end on April 22 at 11:59pm (ET) and standard pricing will end on May 15 at 11:59pm (ET). Please note any refund requests must be received by 11:59pm (ET) on May 15 and that registration fees will not be refunded.

Class of 1955 70th Reunion adult pricing sheet. Please note, the registration fee is required with the full package. One registration fee per classmate.  
1955 70th Reunion Adult Pricing (per adult)Early BirdStandardOnsite Registration
Registration Fee (per classmate)$25.00$25.00$25.00
Full Reunion Package (all events included)$100.00$125.00$125.00

Schedule 

Thursday, June 5

8:00am - 4:00pm

Check-in at Headquarters

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

9:30 - 10:30am

Memorial Service

10:30am

Class Photo

10:30am - 4:30pm

Radcliffe Hospitality Space Available

11:00am - 12:00pm

Class Program: Harvard's Problems

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

2:00 - 3:15pm

Class Program: “What is a Classic? The Case of Bob Dylan” with Professor Richard F. Thomas

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

6:00 - 9:00pm

Clambake Dinner

Friday, June 6

8:00-10:00am

Check-in at Headquarters

Please come to headquarters to check in when you arrive. You will receive your name badge, favor, and additional Reunion materials.

8:30 - 9:15am

Continental Breakfast

9:15am - 10:15am

Class Programming

10:30am

Alumni Parade Line-up

11:00am - 1:00pm

Harvard Alumni Day Parade & Program

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

Tree Spread Luncheon

3:00 - 6:00pm

Harvard Alumni Day Afternoon Programming

This time will include programming open to all, including talks, Shared Interest Group meet-ups, and alumni-organized mini-reunions. 

3:30 - 5:00pm

Radcliffe Institute Open House

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.

*Hotel shuttles TBD

**Exact dates and times forthcoming