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As many of you know, this year the Class of 1950 will have another historic first - our first on-campus Mini Reunion - in September. Hundreds of you have attended one or more of the twenty-six Minis we have held. Starting with Washington, D.C. in 1982, we have spanned the country, from Salem to San Francisco and from Palm Beach to Minneapolis to Honolulu. Many of you have attended twenty or more of our Minis, and you keep coming back for more.
This year, your Executive Committee unanimously agreed that the time had come for our next Mini to be in Princeton itself and during the academic year. Many of our classmates live far from Princeton and have never gone back since graduation to Old Nassau during the academic year. And, as we all know, many positive developments have occurred during the last sixty years to strengthen our beloved University. We hope to expose attendees, at our 2011 Mini, to as many of them as possible during our four day and four night Mini Reunion starting September 28th.
We have scheduled several tours of the campus with emphasis on the many new uildings, such as Whitman College and Frank Gehry's Lewis Science Library, and other features including the newly-opened Streicker Bridge, the pedestrian bridge that now crosses over busier-than-ever Washington Road. We will have several panels of speakers including our own distinguished classmate, Dave Billington, and Harold Shapiro, President of Princeton from 1988 to 2001. Several world-renowned Economics Department professors have also accepted our invitation to participate, including Harold Shapiro, Gregory Chow and Orley Ashenfelter. Every Mini event, except for our opening night reception at the
Nassau Inn, will be held on campus, thereby eliminating the need for costly buses and tour guides that most prior Minis have required. This will lower the per person cost of the Mini considerably. |
