After the post-heatstroke nap, I met up with a couple of old friends, and we spent the whole night walking around Harvard Yard and the river Houses, just talking.
At the end of the night, walking back to my rented dorm room, I passed the Saturday night “gala event” for my class. Everyone looked like they [...]
Random bullets of reunion:
Yesterday, it was in the low fifties and raining. Today, it was in the high nineties and sunny. Remind me again why I’m moving back to the east coast?
My friends have the -best- kids.
There may be a selection bias at work, since this afternoon’s event was the “family-friendly” one on the schedule, [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>So, as promised, my favorite reunion story. (Apologies to those of you who’ve heard this three or four times already.) It happened on Saturday night, the year that I was housing coordinator. Saturday is the best night, for reunion workers. Reunion week starts on Sunday, with very intense last-minute preparation, and [...]
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Posted in personal, writing and editing | 1 Comment »>In college, I worked part-time at the Radcliffe Alumnae Association. The RAA, among its many other functions, handled housing and events for Radcliffe reunions and junior reunions. (”Radcliffe reunions” are for classes who predate the semi-merger of Radcliffe and Harvard classes; “junior reunions” are for any class younger than their 25th reunion. Conventional wisdom, back [...]
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