Class Note 1957
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
Sixty years! It’s been 60 years since we left the funny, funny faculty and went out into the wide, wide world. (Tuition and fees then were about $1,100.) In a few months we will gather once more in fellowship and remembrance for the class of 1957’s 60th reunion, June 12-15. Sixty years can seem like an instance or a lifetime—or both, simultaneously. It will be the year 2077 when the class of 2017 returns to Hanover for its 60th.
I’m writing this a few days before the calendar turns over to 2017 so some plans and events for the reunion have not been finalized. You will, of course, receive up-to-date and more details about the reunion. But here are some things to look forward to.
Most important for me, and I’m sure it is for others, is simply meeting, greeting and hanging out with classmates. Class headquarters and nerve center is the Paganucci Lounge, Class of 1953 Commons. Check in there first.
Some highlights include a presidential reunion address with Philip J. Hanlon ’77 Tuesday morning. The College has several lectures planned although details are not yet available.
If you haven’t been back to the College for a while, you may want to take a campus bus tour. There’s also an architectural walking tour, sort of an addendum to “Architecture 1” you took so many years ago—lots of construction since 1957.
Eating and socializing go together. Professional school grads will meet for breakfast Tuesday morning. Noted musicologist Mike Lasser will entertain us at the class banquet Wednesday night.
We’ll have a memorial service for departed classmates, an activity that grows more poignant every reunion.
You can also play golf, go along on a guided tour of the Orozco murals and visit your fraternity, major department and faculty members.
It’s our 60th reunion, June 12-15. I hope you’ve registered. If not, contact Clark or Happy Griffiths at clarkgrif@comcast.net or Mike Tompkins at miket@infionline.net. Volunteer if you can. They will welcome your help.
—Bruce Sloane, 124 Hull School Road, Sperryville, VA 22740; (540) 987-8859; bsloane@wildblue.net
I’m writing this a few days before the calendar turns over to 2017 so some plans and events for the reunion have not been finalized. You will, of course, receive up-to-date and more details about the reunion. But here are some things to look forward to.
Most important for me, and I’m sure it is for others, is simply meeting, greeting and hanging out with classmates. Class headquarters and nerve center is the Paganucci Lounge, Class of 1953 Commons. Check in there first.
Some highlights include a presidential reunion address with Philip J. Hanlon ’77 Tuesday morning. The College has several lectures planned although details are not yet available.
If you haven’t been back to the College for a while, you may want to take a campus bus tour. There’s also an architectural walking tour, sort of an addendum to “Architecture 1” you took so many years ago—lots of construction since 1957.
Eating and socializing go together. Professional school grads will meet for breakfast Tuesday morning. Noted musicologist Mike Lasser will entertain us at the class banquet Wednesday night.
We’ll have a memorial service for departed classmates, an activity that grows more poignant every reunion.
You can also play golf, go along on a guided tour of the Orozco murals and visit your fraternity, major department and faculty members.
It’s our 60th reunion, June 12-15. I hope you’ve registered. If not, contact Clark or Happy Griffiths at clarkgrif@comcast.net or Mike Tompkins at miket@infionline.net. Volunteer if you can. They will welcome your help.
—Bruce Sloane, 124 Hull School Road, Sperryville, VA 22740; (540) 987-8859; bsloane@wildblue.net