Class of 1973

50th Reunion Schedule

For a more information, please visit the HAA 50th Reunion Page.

Tuesday, May 30

2:00–10:00 P.M.

Check-in at Headquarters

Cabot Library, Science Center

6:00–8:00 P.M.

Welcome Reception

8:00 P.M.

Movie Night

Donna Brown Guillaume's movie Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave

Narratives (2003)

Wednesday, May 31

8:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.

Check-in at Headquarters

Cabot Library, Science Center

8:00–9:00 A.M.

Breakfast

9:00–10:30 A.M.

Class Survey

Led by Walt Mercer and Stan Mark

Science Center

10:45–11:45 A.M.

What You Believe About Aging Might Not Be True: a Conversation with Classmates

Featuring Dr. Greg Hinrichsen, Geropsychologist, Clinical Professor, Dept. of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City; and Dr. Robert Waldinger, professor of psychiatry and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, Harvard University.

Despite physical declines associated with aging, most older adults have better social and emotional well-being than younger adults. This is sometimes referred to as the "paradox of well-being in later life." This symposium will discuss why that might be and offer an opportunity for our classmates to talk with each other about their own experience of aging.

12:00 P.M.

Class Luncheon

2:00 P.M.

Memorial Service

Memorial Church

3:30 P.M.

Class Photo

Widener Steps

3:45–4:45 P.M.

Open Mic: Me in Three

In this session, any classmate can speak for three minutes on a topic of her or his choosing.

6:00 P.M.

Class Dinner

8:30 P.M.

Late Night Movie: Love Story

Introduced by John Bertagna and former Athletic Director Bill Cleary

Thursday, June 1

8:00 A.M.–11:00 P.M.

Check-in at Headquarters

Cabot Library, Science Center

8:00–9:00 A.M.

Breakfast

9:00–10:15 A.M.

ClassACT Symposium: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century

Where: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall

Presentation by: Danielle Allen

Moderator: E.J. Dionne

Panelists: Roger Ferguson, Al Franken, Bill Kristol, Patti Saris

The 75 minute symposium will feature a presentation by Harvard professor Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, Director of Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and Co-Chair of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences initiative, Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century which proposes specific recommendations and reforms to insure our democracy.

Link to full report: Our Common Purpose | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)

Summary of key strategies and recommendations in the report can be found here.

Followed by a discussion by the panel and Prof. Allen, led by E. J. Dionne.

9:00A.M–10:15 A.M.

ClassACT Symposium: From the Charles River to Half-Earth: 50 Years to 50 Percent

Where: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall

Convenor: John Kress

Participants: Jesse Ausubel, John Adams, Kimball Chen, Lindsay Clarkson, Robert Dreher, Henrietta Wigglesworth Lodge, Michael Mayer, Ann McKinnon, Roger Myerson, Sharon Tisher

As undergrads we associated the Charles River and Boston Harbor with tetanus and sewage. Jesse Ausubel will report on surprisingly diverse and abundant aquatic life by the Boat House and USS Constitution discovered in a slurp of water with modern genomics and look back nostalgically on fear of falling off a shell, raft or dinghy.

John Kress will then lead a conversation among classmates engaged in the ClassACT HR73 Environment and Climate Change Working group. The late Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson in his 2016 book Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, proposed the designation of half of Earth’s surface, both terrestrial and marine, as a natural reserve to safeguard the remaining biodiversity of the planet. With backgrounds in environment, law, government, medicine, business, and academics, discussion will focus on action that can be taken through ratification of international biodiversity treaties and local to global land trusts as vehicles for species and ecosystem protection.

10:30–11:45 A.M.

Symposium on Creators of Culture

12:00 P.M.

Class Luncheon

1:30–3:30 P.M.

Radcliffe Open House (open to all classes 40th+)

Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

We look forward to welcoming alumnae in reunion back to Radcliffe Yard to reconnect with classmates and tour campus spaces. Light refreshments will be provided in Fay House, and alumnae can visit the renovated Schlesinger Library where selections from the Radcliffe College archives will be on view. In addition, alumnae will have the chance to visit current exhibitions in the Institute’s galleries, Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now and Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&).

Please register here to join us for this drop-in open house. If you have any questions, please contact Radcliffe Events at events@radcliffe.harvard.edu or 617 496-1984.

2:30–3:00 P.M.

Symposium on Sports and Society

Led by Joe Bertagna and featuring James Brown from CBS

Sanders Theater

5:00 P.M.

Wine Tasting

Featuring Master of Wine Bill Nesto

Quincy House Dining Room

6:00 P.M.

Class Dinner Dance with Sundance and Glee Club

Friday, June 2

8:00 A.M.–4:00 P.M.

Check-in at Headquarters

Cabot Library, Science Center

8:00–9:00 A.M.

Breakfast

9:00–10:30 A.M.

Edvard Munch Tours

Small group tours of Edvard Munch prints and paintings from the Philip and Lynn Straus collection at the Harvard Arts Museum. Separate registration information to come.

9:00–10:45 A.M.

Discussion on Race: Race, Reparations, Representation, and Reconciliation

10:45 A.M.

Alumni Day Parade and Program

1:00 P.M.

Class Luncheon

3:00–4:00 P.M.

Edvard Munch Tours

Small group tours of Edvard Munch prints and paintings from the Philip and Lynn Straus collection at the Harvard Arts Museum. Separate registration information to come.

4:00 P.M.

Reunion officially ends