20th Reunion - 2015

Friday

Cocktails

Chapin Lawn/C​ampus Center

* All bars during social hours will be cash bars. Friday night is a cocktail party with all classes.

Dinner​, with a special visit from President McCartney​:​

King/Scales dining room​

Friday after dinner drinks meet up:

Wiggins Tavern, Hotel Northampton

Saturday

8:45 a.m. Line up for Ivy Day Parade

Near Chapin lawn

Wear your white outfit and shoes and meet for the Ivy Day parade.

11:15 a.m. Special event hosted by class of 1995

Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library

Salon-style discussion with Susan Van Dyne and objects from Plath’s archives will be on view that will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery in 2017. Members of Sylvia’s class and the class of ’65 will join us and will talk about what life was like at Smith in the 1950s and 1960s.

1 p.m. Lunch ~ We will hold our class meeting over lunch to elect the next slate of officers, etc.

Pick up box lunches on Chapin Lawn between noon to 3pm and proceed to Seelye 106

* Rain Location: pick up box lunches at the Campus Center and proceed to Seelye 106

Bring your exercise clothes!!

1:30-2:30 – yoga with Jessica Klaitman (location TBD, outside if weather is nice)

2:30-3:30 – zumba with Sarah Davis (location TBD)

3:30-4:30 – President McCartney talk on the state of the college

Saturday cocktails:

Tyler Porch

Dinner:

Tyler dining room

Illumination Night!!!

Sunday

Sunday brunch ~ Commencement will be live broadcast where brunch is, so you can do it all!

Davis Ballroom

Commencement will also be live streamed in Weinstein auditorium in Wright Hall.

Many thanks to our coordinators: Sarah Bennison, Dorothy Moss and Micha Elzay

REUNION I (COMMENCEMENT) WEEKEND – MAY 14 – 17, 2015

10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th classes

Thursday The Alumnae House is open 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

4 – 8 p.m. Reunion Registration

5:30/6:30 p.m. Reunion social hour/dinner

Friday The Alumnae House is open 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.9 a.m. – 11 p.m. Reunion Registration

7 a.m. – 9 a.m. Breakfast in college houses

Noon Reunion luncheon

2 – 5 p.m. Campus activities, college and class programming

5:30 p.m. Reunion social hour for all other classes

6:30 p.m. Class dinners and class programming

Evening College/Class programming

Saturday The Alumnae House is open 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.

8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Reunion Registration

7 a.m. – 9 a.m. Breakfast in college houses

9:15 a.m. (8:45 lineup) Alumnae Parade/Ivy Day Ceremony

11:15am - Talk by Susan Van Dyne on her research on Sylvia Plath, up in the Mortimer Rare Book Room in the Neilson Library

11:30 a.m. Service of Remembrance (immediately following the Ivy Day Ceremony)

Noon Lunch (Some classes will have their class meetings or programming at this time)

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. President’s Reception for graduates, their family, and friends (open to all)

3 - 5 p.m. College programming/family programs

5:30/6:30 p.m. Class social hours/dinners

8 p.m. Commencement Concert

8:30 - 10 p.m. Illumination of center campus with live music

All reunion dance party!

Sunday The Alumnae House is open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

7 a.m. – 9 a.m. Breakfast in college houses

10 a.m. Commencement Exercises

10 a.m. Reunion brunch

1 p.m. Residence houses close