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 Acre

 

Class of 1970 – Elliott Zuckerman, HA95

William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of 

                                      Early Childhood”

                                     (text provided)

 

Class of 1975 – Chester Burke, A74

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 Ado About Nothing

 

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, Antony and Cleopatra  

 

 

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” – Mitchell Art Gallery
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, Fairfield Porter, Max Weber and Romare Bearden.    

 

4 pm                            Soccer Classic- Upper Field

 

                                    Book Signing- Book Store

 

5:30 pm                        Alumni Awards Dinner - Library Plaza (inclement weather, under tent) Award of Merit Recipients: Stephen Benedict, A47, Steve Forman, A70, Robert Tzudiker, A75

 

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