Homecoming
2010 - Schedule
Friday, September 24
1-6 pm Water
Activities – Boat House
4 pm Sailing
Team Practice- President’s House
4 – 8 pm Registration
– Coffee
Shop
4 - 5:30pm Meet & Greet – FSK Lobby
Come meet the New Director of Career Services, Jaime Dunn! Alumni will
also have the opportunity to network with students and learn more about their
future career aspirations.
5:30 – 7:30 pm Welcome Home Reception- McDowell
Hall
5:45 pm Fiftieth
Reunion Dinner for the Class of 1960 – President’s House
Dinner for the Classes of the 1940’s and
Friends – Private Dining
Room
6 pm Class
of ’65 Dinner – Café Normandie
8:15 pm Lecture
– Laurence Berns,
HA00, Tutor Emeritus, “Dialectic,
Virtue and
Recollection in Plato's Meno” - FSK
Auditorium
10 pm Rock Party – DJ Eric Roberge- Boat House
Saturday, September 25
8 am Alumni Sweeps and Sculls- Boat
House
8:30 - 11:30 am Registration
– Coffee
Shop
9 am All Alumni Meeting-
Conversation
Room
9 am – 5 pm Water
Activities – Boat House
10:30 am Seminars,
including seminars for children and story hour- McDowell/Mellon/BBC/ Mellon Courtyard
Classes of the
40’s – Chris Nelson, SF70
Aristotle, Nichomachian Ethics, Book VIII
(translation by Joe Sachs, text provided)
Classes of the 50’s – Sam Kutler, A54
Thomas Mann, “Tables of the Law”
Class of 1960- Nick Maistrellis
Richard Lewontin, "The Organism as Subject and Object of Evolution”
(text provided)
Class of 1965 – Curtis Wilson, HA83
Isak
Dinesen, Sorrow
Class of 1970 – Elliott Zuckerman, HA95
William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of
Early Childhood”
(text provided)
Class of 1975 –
The Federalist Papers 10,14,39,51,70,78,84
Class of 1980 – Josh Kates, A80
Tom Stoppard, Travesties
Class of 1985 – Chaninah Maschler,
HA98, and Jon Tuck
William Shakespeare, Much
Class of 1990 – James Beall
Aristotle, On the Soul Book I, Chapter 1, lines 402a1 – 402a9
Book II, Chapter 3, lines 414a28 – 415a15
Book III, Chapter 4, lines 429a10 – 430a9
Book III, Chapter 8, lines 431b20 – 432a14
Translated by J. A. Smith
(text provided)
Class of 1995 – Henry Higuera
Plato, Apology
Classes of the 2000s – Joe Macfarland, A87
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Notes from Underground”
Graduate Institute- Marilyn Higuera
William Faulkner, “The Fire and the
Hearth” from Go Down, Moses
Peter Kalkavage
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Artist of the Beautiful (text provided)
Tom May
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire” (text provided)
John Verdi
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations, Preface and sections 1-134
Jon Lenkowski, HA10
James Joyce, “The Dead”, Penguin Classic Edition of Dubliners
ISBN: 9780140186475
Eric Salem, A77
Euripides, Hippolytus
Pamela Kraus
William Shakespeare,
Eva Brann, HA89
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Seminars for future Johnnies
· Ages 2-5 Story Hour
· Ages 6-8 Story Hour
· Ages 9-12 - E.L. Konigsburg , The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,
·
Ages 13 and up – Cynthia Voight, Homecoming
Noon Family Lunch –Back
Lawn/Tent
1:30 – 3:30 pm Children’s Activities-Back
Lawn/Tent
Class of 1975 Seminar, Part II, led by Chester Burke, A74
2 pm Freshman Chorus
Revisited, led by Peter Kalkavage – Great Hall
Full: Ptolemy Revisted,
led by Jim Beall - The Planetarium
If you would like, we can place you on a waitlist for
this time slot.
The first mathematical theory of the motions
of the world, with new projector and lens assembly courtesy of the Class of
2010
3 pm FULL: Ptolemy Revisted, led by Jim Beall -
The
Planetarium
If you would like, we can place you on a waitlist for this time slot.
The first mathematical theory of the motions
of the world, with new projector and lens assembly courtesy of the Class of
2010
Mitchell
Gallery Tour- “Still Life: Works from the Baltimore Museum of Art” –
This exhibition spans a history of more
than 350 years of one of the most celebrated subjects in art. Artists’
fascination with objects and the challenges of interpreting them is a theme
throughout art history. Whether the subject is beautiful or mundane, artists
have created inspiring compositions that breathe new life into our often overlooked
objects of daily life. this exhibition chronicles the
rich history of still life painting and highlights the many talents that were
captivated by this time-honored approach. Artists include James Peale, Severin Roesen, Pierre-August
Renoir, Childe Hassam, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Georges
Braque, Georges Rouault,
4 pm Soccer Classic- Upper
Field
Book
Signing- Book Store
5:30 pm Alumni Awards Dinner -
7:00 pm Class of ’00 (and
Friends!) Dinner – Harry Browne's
*Payment will be taken at the restaurant - $35 fixed menu
8:00 pm After Dinner Coffee
& Desserts -FSK Lobby
9:30 pm Waltz Party featuring
The Spa Creek Swing Band –Great Hall
9:30 pm Rock Party –DJ Robert George, A85 - Coffee Shop
Sunday,
September 26
11:00 am President’s
Brunch hosted by Chris Nelson, SF70- Back Lawn