Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1964 Fiftieth Reunion May 25–29, 2014

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a Contents REUNION Curtis E. von Kann PARTICIPATION PROGRAM Ciji Ware VICE CHAIRS Letter to Classmates 2 Attendee Services 8 COMMITTEE Harvey Weiner Richard Amberg, Jr. Disabilities and CO-CHAIRS Diana L. Westgate William S. Barrett Fiftieth Reunion Schedule 3 Certain Medical Conditions Thomas R. Brome Barry B. White Emilie de Brigard Accommodations 6 Reunion Headquarters Harriet Backus Todd John Donnelly, Jr. REUNION University Housing Parking and Transportation George E. Hall, Jr. REUNION PROGRAM CAMPAIGN Room Requests Library and Museum Privileges Susan Patterson Harding COMMITTEE COMMITTEE Sharing a Suite Exercise and Athletics Stephen B. Hrones Stanton V. Abrams CO-CHAIRS Optional Hotel Information Internet Access Patricia C. Jones James Bakalar Thomas R. Brome Arrival and Parking Phone Directory and Mail Anne B. Keith William S. Barrett C. Boyden Gray Departure and Checkout Fax John K. Wells Max Byrd Tom Stephenson Packing and Attire 7 Security and Emergency Phones Ellie Cabot Jim Swartz PARTICIPATION Packing Medical Services Eric Chivian COMMITTEE Reunion Photographs Attire Colleen Gaines Clark REUNION CAMPAIGN Stanton V. Abrams Registration and Additional Schedule Information 11 Ruthanne Rivers Cowan VICE CHAIR Jacqueline Dornsife Allaman Financial Assistance 8 A Note on House/Dorm Emilie R. de Brigard Susan First Pollack Nancy Bunge Registration and Affinity Tables Dorothy Ellen Derifield Joe Butare LEADERSHIP Tickets and Name Badges Class of 1964 Revue Deborah Goldberg James Cleeman GIFTS CO-CHAIRS Registration Fees Symposia Programs Susan Patterson Harding Katherine Cullinan Peter H. Darrow Refunds Brief Talks ’64 Scott Harshbarger Bob Donaldson Susan L. Graham Financial Assistance Other Presentations and Events John H. Henn Charles Doran Robert H. Mnookin Harvard Attractions Stephen G. Hoffman Ben Fairbank Leo Mullin Joan Goldstein Honig Nicholas Fels Martin Quinn Bill Humenuk Stephen Goodwin William L. Richter Charlotte Ikels Paul Guzzi Brandon Sweitzer Julie Rich Ingelfinger Stephen G. Hoffman Harriet Backus Todd Tom James Karen Brown Johnson Mary F. Keefe LEADERSHIP Mary F. Keefe Edmund W. Lang CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Frederic Kellogg Jean Burg Leed Philip Burling Donald Kursch Frances “Frinde” Maher Jon Ender Edmund W. Lang George A. McDermott, Jr. Joe Hammer John A. Lowe Robert H. Mnookin Griffith Price Irving B. Naiburg, Jr. George M. Moriarty David A. H. Smith Grier H. Raggio, Jr. David Nelson Kendrick Wells Ambrose M. Richardson Phyllis Rose Sandy Whitman Sheldon B. Sturges Richard A. Ryerson Franklin B. Velie Jay Sage JOHN HARVARD Harvey Weiner Marc A. Slotnick SOCIETY CHAIR Barry B. White John Thorndike John H. Henn Ken Tigar PARTICIPATION CHAIR Tony Urick Marc Slotnick John T. Vinton

1 Dear Classmates and Friends, Fiftieth Reunion Schedule For additional details and event listings, see symposia and other program information on page 11. As 2014 begins to unfold, we are in the fiftieth year since our graduation from Harvard and Radcliffe. Our Fiftieth Reunion will take place from May 25 to May 29 this year. SUNDAY, MAY 25

Much has changed in our lives, in the world we live in, and at Harvard as well. But the core principles 4:00–10:00 PM Headquarters/check-in desk open for Sunday night housing check-in of the greatest university in the world endure. Come help us celebrate all that as we renew old Junior Common Room ( JCR), Quincy House acquaintances and make new ones, experience the intellectual stimulation of our alma mater, and share MONDAY, MAY 26—MEMORIAL DAY our experiences and insights with one another. 10:00 AM–11:00 PM Headquarters/check-in desk open We are planning meals together, a Class Revue looking back to performances when we were in school, JCR, Quincy House stimulating symposia, a series of TED Talk–style presentations by classmates, the traditional trip to 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 PM Walking tours for early arrivals the Pops, a dinner dance, and participation in Commencement. Your committee has worked hard Depart from Quincy House Courtyard to put together a full schedule, with plenty of time to just catch up with classmates and those with 4:30–5:30 PM Discussion with Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University whom we shared activities. and Lincoln Professor of History, and Michael D. Smith, Dean of Don’t miss it! the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences We encourage you to buy the full package so you can enjoy as much of Reunion as possible. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall You can register by returning the enclosed form or going online to our registration site, which 5:45–6:30 PM Cocktails you can access from our class website, www.hr1964.org. Because for some the cost may be prohibitive Tent on the Plaza, Meyer Gate (adjacent to the Science Center) at this time, confidential financial assistance is available. To request assistance, use the procedure described under “Financial Assistance” on page 8 of this Registration Guide. 6:30–8:00 PM Welcome Dinner Tent on the Plaza, Meyer Gate Please remember to bring an umbrella. If we all do, this will surely scare away any threat of rain! 8:00–9:30 PM Class of 1964 Revue If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Harvard Alumni Association at 617-496-7001 Sanders Theatre or [email protected]. Also, feel free to contact your reunion co-chairs by emailing 10:00–11:00 PM Refreshments/nightcaps [email protected]. Courtyard, Quincy House

We look forward to receiving your registration and seeing you in May. TUESDAY, MAY 27

Best regards, 7:00 AM Bird Walk Shuttle bus departs from and returns to Quincy House Harriet Todd and Tom Brome 7:00–9:00 AM Breakfast Reunion Program Committee Co-Chairs Quincy and Eliot Houses 9:00–10:30 AM Symposium: “Climate Change: Is Doing Nothing an Option?” Science Center Hall C 10:45 AM–NOON Brief Talks ’64: Part I Science Center Hall B 10:45 AM–NOON Symposium: “The Writing Life: Novelists and Others” Science Center Hall B

2 3 7:00–9:00 PM Dinner 12:15–1:30 PM Lunch (seating available by former House or dorm) McCurdy Track Tent Tent on the Plaza, Meyer Gate 9:00–10:30 PM Dancing 1:45–3:15 PM Symposium: “Care in Later Life: Policy and Practice” McCurdy Track Tent Sanders Theatre 9:00–11:30 PM Refreshments and Informal Discussions 3:30–4:30 PM Brief Talks ’64: Part II Dining Room, Quincy House Sanders Theatre THURSDAY, MAY 29—COMMENCEMENT DAY 5:00–6:15 PM Dinner Courtyard and Dining Room, Eliot House 6:45–8:45 AM Continental Breakfast 6:45 PM Buses depart for Symphony Hall Harvard Faculty Club Mill Street 8:15–8:30 AM Alumni Procession forms 8:00–10:00 PM Boston Pops Concert Harvard Yard (in front of Harvard Hall) Symphony Hall 8:30–9:30 AM Commencement Procession 10:00 PM Buses board to return to Quincy House 9:45–11:30 AM 363rd Commencement: The Morning Exercises Symphony Hall (Huntington Avenue, south exit from Symphony Hall) Tercentenary Theatre (spouses and guests may view from Science Center 10:00–11:30 PM Refreshments or Quincy House JCR) Courtyard, Quincy House 10:00 AM–6:00 PM Shuttles run between Mill Street and Soldiers Field Park Garage

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28 11:45 AM–2:00 PM Fiftieth Reunion Luncheon Spread Tent on the Plaza, Meyer Gate 7:00 AM Fun Run/Walk 1:45–2:30 PM Afternoon Alumni Procession Departs from and returns to Newell Boathouse (1.5- and 4-mile options) Pathway from Science Center to University Hall in the Old Yard 7:30–9:30 AM Breakfast (spouses, guests, widows, and widowers are invited to march with the Class) Eliot and Quincy Houses 2:15–4:30 PM Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association: 9:30–10:30 AM Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1964 Memorial Service The Afternoon Program Memorial Church Tercentenary Theatre

11:00–11:45 AM Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1964 Photographs FRIDAY, MAY 30 Widener Library Steps NOON–1:15 PM Lunch (seating available by former affinity groups) 7:00–9:00 AM Final checkout from housing Tent on the Plaza, Meyer Gate (shuttles available to Soldiers Field Park Garage) JCR, Quincy House 1:15–2:45 PM Symposium: “Building the Great Society: 1964 to 2014 and Beyond” Sanders Theatre 7:00–9:00 AM Continental Breakfast Beverage Nook, Quincy House Dining Hall 1:30–2:30 PM Panel Discussion: “The Military (and ROTC) at Harvard: Then and Now” Sever Hall 9:00 AM Headquarters closes and shuttle service terminates Quincy House 3:00–4:00 PM Brief Talks ’64: Part III Sanders Theatre 3:00–4:00 PM Symposium: “An Artistic Education” Radcliffe Day Activities Sever Hall Planned by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, see page 15; additional details 6:15–7:00 PM Cocktails at www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-day. Pre-registration required. McCurdy Track Tent, Soldiers Field Athletics Area

4 5 ACCOMMODATIONS ROOM REQUESTS BOSTON MARRIOTT CAMBRIDGE DEPARTURE AND CHECKOUT 617-494-6600 Please indicate on your registration form All rooms must be vacated by 9:00 AM on UNIVERSITY HOUSING any request for a particular classmate, couple, Two Cambridge Center, 50 Broadway, Friday, May 30. Please note that headquarters Cambridge We encourage you to take advantage of room, or House. We will do our best to will close at that time. Please make appropriate University housing during Reunion. The accommodate your preference, but please Cut-off date: May 5 $299/night arrangements for your departure. For those increased opportunities to renew old friendships understand that we are unable to guarantee DOUBLETREE GUEST SUITES BOSTON attending Radcliffe Day activities on May 30, and begin new relationships add another level specific requests until you check in at Reunion. 800-222-TREE (8733) it is recommended that you retrieve your car of richness to the reunion experience. Please and relocate it to appropriate parking provided SHARING A SUITE 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston note that registration, including housing by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. requests, must be received by May 16. If you are attending Reunion as a single Cut-off date: April 26 $299/night Reunion shuttle service will conclude at THE LIBERTY HOTEL 9:00 AM on May 30. Arrangements have been made for commuters classmate or as a couple, it may be necessary 866-961-3778 who want to rest, freshen up, or change clothes. for you to share a suite with another classmate Inquire at headquarters. or couple. If there is a classmate or couple 215 Charles Street, Boston PACKING AND ATTIRE with whom you would like to be housed, please The Fiftieth Reunion is accommodated in Cut-off date: April 25 $295/night include that preference on your registration PACKING first- or second-floor rooms only, unless an form, and we will do our best to arrange it. ARRIVAL AND PARKING elevator is present. Even first-floor rooms If you are staying in University housing, your may involve as many as seven or eight stairs. OPTIONAL HOTEL INFORMATION If you arrive by car, please go directly to the room will be equipped with linens, pillows, While Quincy House will be the location of Soldiers Field Park Garage in the Harvard towels, a bath mat, soap, and lightweight Although economic and social factors headquarters, it will be one of many facilities Business School parking area, 107 Western blankets. You may wish to bring an alarm clock, are likely to make on-campus housing the used for Reunion. Fiftieth Reunion participants Avenue, Boston. You will not be able to park radio, flip-flops, extension cord, or hair dryer. most attractive option, we have reserved a will be staying in Adams, Dunster, Eliot, —or unload luggage—at headquarters. There are on-campus dial telephones in the limited number of hotel rooms at favorable Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, Mather, Winthrop, Unload your bags with the student bellhops dorm rooms, but we suggest you bring a cell rates. Should you wish to arrange hotel and Quincy Houses. Each House has its own before entering the garage, park and lock your phone. If you include your cell phone number accommodations independently, participating advantages of location and comfort. car, and take the shuttle to Quincy House. on the registration form, it will be printed in hotels and their rates are listed on page 7. If you arrive and no shuttle is present, the the attendee directory for your classmates to Please bear in mind that while the rooms Other hotels are available in the area, but 24-hour parking attendant will call headquarters connect with you while in Cambridge. are quaint and historic, they have relatively group blocks have not been arranged. All to send a van to assist you. Parking for com- modest conveniences. You will have your blocked rates are available for a limited For your convenience, arrangements can be muters will be available at the Soldiers Field own bedroom, but you may share a suite number of rooms the nights of May 25–29 made with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) Park Garage for the duration of Reunion; and bathroom with another individual or and are valid until the block is filled or until to rent refrigerators, fans, and other items. shuttle and van service will be available when couple. Each registered guest will receive the indicated cut-off date, whichever comes More information is available at reunions.hsa.net. headquarters is open. a towel, soap, sheets, blankets, and a pillow. first. All rates quoted are for single or double The items you rent will be delivered to your Harvard Student Agencies provides reunion occupancy and are exclusive of local and If you are traveling from the airport or train assigned room by HSA. station, you can take a taxi directly to guests with additional services, which you state taxes. To receive these rates, request ATTIRE may arrange with them directly by emailing the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1964 headquarters at Quincy House, 58 Plympton [email protected] or by calling 617-496-3412; group rate. Street. Expect at least a 30-minute ride from There is no formal dress code for any reunion for more information, visit reunions.hsa.net. the airport. Alternatively, you can ride the event. Please remember that Cambridge MBTA subway to the Harvard Square stop. weather in May runs the gamut from cool Quincy House is a short walk from there. to hot. Be sure to bring comfortable, rainproof Student bellhops will be available at Quincy shoes and an umbrella. Business attire is in House to assist you and carry your luggage order for classmates attending the Memorial to your assigned room. Service and Commencement Exercises. Evening events will be similarly formal. To view an interactive map of campus Other attire is at your discretion. locations, please visit map.harvard.edu.

6 7 accommodations, advanced planning is Commuters and residents of University housing REGISTRATION AND who attend Reunion. We hope you are able to strongly encouraged. If you may need are encouraged to use the Soldiers Field Park FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE find appropriate value in the package selections assistance because of a disability or medical Garage; commercial lots in Harvard Square offered. All packages include reunion favors; condition, please contact the CAP office are also available at regularly posted fees. We REGISTRATION access to parking, transportation, and printed at 617-496-7001 or find a request form on have arranged for a comprehensive shuttle bus guides; and the assistance of bellhops and other Please sign up by submitting the enclosed the class website, www.hr1964.org. Additional schedule throughout reunion week to minimize staff. Please note that support for the students form by mail with a check. You can also register accessibility-related information can be found the amount of walking required. In addition, who perform various duties during reunion week online at www.hr1964.org with a credit card. at www.accessibility.harvard.edu. vans driven by undergraduates are available is greatly appreciated and may be given to the The deadline to register for on-campus housing for smaller trips around campus during the students in the form of gratuities. The pricing REUNION HEADQUARTERS is May 16. Registrations submitted after May 1 week. Wheelchair-accessible transportation is is set as indicated on the registration form; if are subject to a $50 late fee. The Fiftieth Reunion headquarters will be available on-call from headquarters at any time you find the cost to be prohibitive, please refer located in the Quincy House Junior Common until a half-hour following the conclusion of TICKETS AND NAME BADGES to the section regarding financial assistance. Room ( JCR). Quincy House is at 58 Plympton the events each day. Street (diagonally across Mount Auburn Street All tickets necessary for individual events will REFUNDS LIBRARY AND MUSEUM PRIVILEGES be issued to you upon check-in at headquarters. from the Lampoon building). Refunds of registration fees will be granted For events that are not individually ticketed, Registration will begin at 10:00 AM on Monday, Alumni are eligible to receive a Widener for requests made before 5:00 pM on May 16. your name badge will serve as your ticket. May 26. Early registration will be available on Library Stacks Access Card without a fee. Requests for refunds after May 16 will be Please wear your name badge throughout Sunday, May 25, from 4:00 to 10:00 PM for With this card, alumni are permitted to granted on a case-by-case basis. Reunion. Tickets are required for both the individuals traveling great distances to attend borrow books from Widener and most of the Morning Exercises and the Afternoon Program FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Reunion. When you arrive, our undergraduate other Harvard College libraries any six days of Commencement and will be available on staff will greet you and hand you your packet, over a 12-month period. Reunion week is an We hope everyone in the Class can attend Wednesday and Thursday (May 28 and May 29) which will include a Program Guide filled with ideal time to take advantage of this privilege. Reunion. Because for some the cost may be only. Tickets for the Morning Exercises are useful information and the current schedule. Obtain your Widener Library Stacks Access prohibitive, confidential financial assistance is issued only to reunion alumni at headquarters. Card by visiting the Library Privileges Office available. If you need financial assistance, please Headquarters is open each day from 8:00 AM Space limitations in Tercentenary Theatre in Widener Library. submit a written request for a waiver of fees, until a half-hour after the final event of the day allow only alumni into the morning activities. In addition, you will be granted free admission indicating the amount of assistance required, is over (roughly until midnight). Our student Guests may view the Morning Exercises from to the Collection of Historical Scientific to Serghino Rene, 124 Mount Auburn Street, staff will be available to assist you and resolve the Science Center or Quincy House Junior Instruments, the Harvard Museum of Natural 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, or send an any problems that may arise. Common Room. Guests are welcome to join History, and the Peabody Museum of email to [email protected] by May 1. You can reach headquarters during Reunion alumni for the Afternoon Program. If your Archaeology and Ethnology with your name by calling 617-495-7807 or 617-495-7808 guest is an alumnus or alumna of a different badge during Reunion. See page 15 for ATTENDEE SERVICES (5-7807 or 5-7808 from an on-campus internal class year, he or she may request tickets at additional museum and library information. annualmeeting.alumni.harvard.edu before line). From your room on campus, you will DISABILITIES AND CERTAIN EXERCISE AND ATHLETICS arrival on campus. Only members of the be able to dial on-campus numbers only. MEDICAL CONDITIONS We encourage you to bring a personal cell Class of 1964 are eligible for Commencement The Hemenway Gym, Malkin Athletic Center, phone. If you include your cell phone number tickets picked up at headquarters during To help make reunion attendance possible and Blodgett Pool are available to alumni during on the registration form, it will be printed Reunion. for those with disabilities or certain medical Reunion. Please present your name badge for in the attendee directory so your classmates conditions, accommodations and services access. All athletic facilities and hours are listed REGISTRATION FEES may connect with you while in Cambridge. can be provided to those who make requests at www.gocrimson.com. Additionally, the paths Please see the full array of pricing options by 5:00 PM on May 1. PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION around the Charles River provide an excellent included on the registration form and available College Alumni Programs (CAP), in venue for a morning walk or jog. Classmates will Free parking is available throughout Reunion at www.hr1964.org. The program committee collaboration with University Disability be facilitating a Fun Run/Walk on Wednesday. at the Soldiers Field Park Garage at 107 Western has taken great care to offer the most flexible Services, will make every effort to accommodate The registration form asks for an indication of Avenue, Boston. Shuttle transportation will be pricing structure while creating value for all the needs of alumni. In order to ensure timely those who would be interested in golf or tennis. available when headquarters is open. If there is enough interest, we will try to add one 8 or both to our schedule. 9 INTERNET ACCESS SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PHONES ADDITIONAL SCHEDULE “with vigah” from the Harvard University Harvard has an extensive network of wireless The Harvard University Police Department INFORMATION Band, then a visual and musical montage Internet access points in the residential Houses (HUPD) is an important resource if you are of Harvard and Radcliffe and national events At headquarters, you will receive a Program as well as locations throughout the Harvard lost, locked out of your building, or in need and faces of 1960–1964. It will conclude with Guide that will contain useful information, Yard area. If you choose to bring your own of help of any kind. HUPD can be reached the audience singing, with Harvard Band including a final schedule of events that may wireless-enabled device, you will be able to with any of the blue-lit emergency telephones accompaniment, some Harvard fight songs reflect minor changes from the information access the wireless network. in Harvard buildings and in public areas or and the Radcliffe and Harvard alma maters. listed here. Kiosk computers are available in the Science by calling 617-495-1212 and should be the Symposia Programs Center lobby throughout the day. Access first contact for any on-campus incidents. A Note on House/Dorm instructions, including password and login Ask your bellhop to point out the nearest and Affinity Tables CLIMATE CHANGE: IS DOING NOTHING AN OPTION? information for the wireless network and emergency telephone when you are escorted to your room. Your registration packet will There will be tables at lunch on Tuesday with semipublic computers, will be provided in Tuesday, May 27, 9:00–10:30 AM have a room key and an electronic access card signs for Houses and dorms and on Wednesday the Program Guide you receive at check-in. Science Center Hall C for access to your room. You should lock your with signs for affinity groups. Seating at these PHONE DIRECTORY AND MAIL room at all times. It is suggested that you tables is neither mandatory nor exclusive, but A panel presentation from several perspectives they are provided for those who wish to easily (all are members of the Class of 1964 except It is strongly recommended that you bring leave your nonessential valuables at home. find classmates who were in the same House or James J. McCarthy) followed by an open a cell phone with you. An attendee directory MEDICAL SERVICES dorm, or in the same affinity groups. Classmates discussion with the audience. including classmate cell phone numbers Your reunion name badge is your identification are invited to sit with anyone they wish, and at Eric Chivian (moderator), founder and former received with registration will be included any table; these signs are intended only to serve in your check-in packet distributed at for admission to the Harvard University director, Center for Health and the Global Health Services clinic, Smith Campus Center as a beacon for finding classmates you may wish Environment at Harvard Medical School; headquarters. This will be useful to family to meet up with. or classmates attempting to reach you during (former Holyoke Center), 75 Mount Auburn shared 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for cofounding Reunion. Please contact College Alumni Street (617-495-5711), on a fee-for-service You are urged to complete the line on the International Physicians for the Prevention Programs in advance of Reunion if you basis. The clinic will provide medical services registration form indicating your House or of Nuclear War need to receive postal mail during Reunion. throughout reunion week from 8:00 AM until dorm, and should you wish there to be a table Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of 5:00 pM each day. for any affinity group, please indicate that on Science and Technology Studies, Harvard FAX the form as well. This will give us guidance as REUNION PHOTOGRAPHS Kennedy School to how many tables should have signs. Commercial fax services are available at James J. McCarthy, former director, Museum The Class of 1964 has retained Panfoto to Gnomon Copy, 1308 Massachusetts Avenue Class of 1964 Revue of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University; take several group photographs following (617-491-1111, fax: 617-492-2223); FedEx Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological the Memorial Service on Wednesday, May 28. Monday, May 26, 8:00–9:30 PM Office, 1 Mifflin Place (617-497-0125, Oceanography; commissioner, U.S. Arctic Four photos will be taken: all attendees, Sanders Theatre fax: 617-497-1334); and at other locations Research Commission; past president, American classmates only, Harvard Class of 1964 near Harvard Square. Headquarters will not A lively and entertaining revue in which Association for the Advancement of Science be equipped with access to fax services directly. alumni, and Radcliffe Class of 1964 alumnae. classmates will reprise some of their best William A. Nitze, chairman, Oceana Energy You can order prints directly from Panfoto theatrical and musical performances from Company; former assistant administrator for during Reunion: contact them by phone at our college years. Performers will include international activities, U.S. Environmental 781-788-9595 or visit www.panfoto.com. Rick Beizer, Kendra Stearns O’Donnell, Protection Agency; former deputy assistant Orders of prints before Reunion will receive Andreas Teuber, Ken Tigar, Ciji Ware, secretary of state for environment, health, free shipping. Pat McCauley, Curt von Kann, Ellie Cabot, and natural resources, U.S. Department of State Ed Schmookler, Harvey Weiner, Max Byrd, Dean Stolber ’66, Fredrica Mann Friedman ’66, Gifford Pinchot, cofounder and president, the Fiftieth Reunion Chorus, and the Fiftieth Bainbridge Graduate Institute, the first school Reunion Jazz Ensemble. The revue will be in the country to offer an MBA specifically in preceded at 8:00 pM by a performance sustainable business 10 11 THE WRITING LIFE: NOVELISTS Richard Adler, Distinguished Fellow, Kathie Amatniek Sarachild, feminist writer What We Didn’t Learn in Gov. 101 AND OTHERS Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California and campaigner; director, Redstockings Armand Pohan, chairman, Port Imperial Ferry Tuesday, May 27, 10:45 AM–NOON Topic: “The Future of Aging Women’s Liberation Archive for Action Corporation; president, Borough Council, Fort Lee, New Jersey Science Center Hall B (or Reinventing Aging)” AN ARTISTIC EDUCATION What is a writer’s life like? What are the Vietnam Made Me a Better Man Julie Ingelfinger, pediatric nephrologist, Wednesday, May 28, 3:00-4:00 PM privileges and the drawbacks? How do people John Wilcox, chairman, Sodali, a corporate MassGeneral Hospital for Children; professor Sever Hall become writers? How have these four very governance and shareholder relations of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; deputy different writers worked fiction writing into A conversation between artists and art lovers consultancy editor, New England Journal of Medicine about how art has educated us, how we were their lives? Are they making a living from PART II it or not? Has the prestige accorded to imaginative Topic: “Caring: The View from the Trenches” educated as artists, and what art has to teach literature when we were in college been sustained the world. Tuesday, May 27, 3:30–4:30 PM Marshall Moriarty, lawyer; retiring chair, over 50 years? Does it deserve to be? Sanders Theatre Board of Trustees, Brigham and Women’s Brief Talks ’64 What Harvard Never Taught Me About Phyllis Rose (moderator), biographer Hospital, Boston and essayist, author of Parallel Lives In addition to the more traditional symposium Taking Risks Topic: “Communicating About and The Year of Reading Proust and discussion formats, classmates will be John Graham, director of operations, End-of-Life Decisions” delivering a series of short, TED Talk–like Giraffe Heroes Project Max Byrd, author of historical novels about presentations that we have chosen to call Jefferson, Jackson, and Grant, as well as May Ann Baily, fellow and former staff member, Mirages of Gender Equality, 1964–2014 “Brief Talks ’64.” These will feature personal several mysteries The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York Nancy Doe Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor observations and ideas from classmates of Biology emerita, Massachusetts Institute Sue Miller, author of nine novels including Topic: “The Place of Cost in Decisions About reflecting a wide range of unique perspectives of Technology the groundbreaking The Good Mother and Prolonging Health Care” on life, culture, politics, community, and Oprah’s Book Club selection While I Was Gone the universe—designed to stimulate, inform, Negotiating Jewish Identity BUILDING THE GREAT SOCIETY: in Contemporary America Ciji Ware, author of historical romances and intrigue. Presentations will be short 1964 TO 2014 AND BEYOND Robert Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor including Island of the Swans and (no longer than 10 minutes) and lively, of Law, Harvard Law School A Cottage by the Sea Wednesday, May 28, 1:15–2:45 PM highlighting a specific topic or concept while making it accessible to all. Franz Schubert’s Autobiography CARE IN LATER LIFE: POLICY Sanders Theatre David Tartakoff, professor of mathematics AND PRACTICE Scott Harshbarger (moderator), former attorney PART I emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago general, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Tuesday, May 27, 1:45-3:15 PM Tuesday, May 27, 10:45 AM–NOON former president/CEO, Common Cause My Vietnam War Legacies Sanders Theatre Science Center Hall B National; senior counsel, Proskauer Rose LLP Harvey Weiner, lawyer, Peabody & Arnold Who among us has not faced the challenges What Makes Development Happen, and Not LLP, Boston; captain, U.S. Army Reserve Clifford Brown, Robert Porter Patterson of negotiating appropriate care for our parents John Clark, administrator/teacher, International Professor of Government, Union College PART III or ourselves? What are our options? The panelists University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan Lawrence Feinberg, former reporter, Washington for this symposium are ideally positioned to The Marketplace of Ideas—Or, Was Erik Wednesday, May 28, 3:00–4:00 PM Post; assistant director for reporting and analysis, help us understand the big picture of how we Erikson Fully Priced in 1960? Sanders Theatre National Assessment Governing Board got here and where we are going. Emilie de Brigard, visual anthropologist A Life Outside of Medicine Marshall Ganz, political activist, organizer, Deborah Goldberg (moderator), internist When Matter and Antimatter Collide Michael Droller, professor of urology and author; senior lecturer in public policy, and geriatrician Carl Friedberg, physicist, Comet & Company and oncology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Harvard Kennedy School New York Jon Pynoos, UPS Foundation Professor Adventures of a Wannabe Cliffie: Gordon Harper, medical director, Child and of Gerontology, Policy and Planning, From Donald to Deirdre My Education in a Black College Adolescent Services, Massachusetts Department Andrus Gerontology Center, University Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Charlotte Ikels, professor of anthropology of Mental Health; associate clinical professor of of Southern California Professor of Economics, History, English, emerita, Case Western Reserve University psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Topic: “Fifty Years of Long-Term Care” and Communication, University of Illinois

12 at Chicago 13 COCKTAILS, DINNER, AND DANCING ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HARVARD God, Harvard, and Me: A Spiritual Odyssey BOSTON POPS CONCERT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: THE AFTERNOON Wednesday, May 28, 6:15–10:30 PM PROGRAM Edward Leavitt, owner, The Ned Leavitt Agency Tuesday, May 27, 8:00–10:00 PM McCurdy Track Tent K2 and Everest to Neurobiology and Autism Symphony Hall Thursday, May 29, 2:15–4:30 PM Dinner follows a cocktail hour with light Louis Reichardt, director, Simons Foundation Following a long-standing tradition, the Tercentenary Theatre music provided by the exceptional Winiker Autism Research Initiative; professor emeritus, Fiftieth Reunion will attend a Boston Pops Orchestra. Background music will continue The program will include welcoming remarks University of California, San Francisco performance. The program will feature some through dinner. Following dessert, the band and recognitions by Catherine A. Gellert ’93, selections intended for the Harvard and The Life of an Ambassador to Norway During will strike up in full to provide a soundtrack president of the Harvard Alumni Association Radcliffe audience. Additional tickets for this the Obama Administration for dancing. For those who wish to continue (HAA); an announcement of Overseer and performance are made available to the general Barry White, lawyer, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston; quiet conversations, evening refreshments HAA director elections; the presentation of public and can be purchased at www.bso.org. former U.S. ambassador to Norway at Quincy House will begin when dancing the Harvard Medals; remarks by President Other Presentations and Events THE MILITARY (AND ROTC) AT HARVARD: commences. of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor THEN AND NOW of History Drew Gilpin Faust; and an address STUDENT CONCERTS WALKING TOUR: WHAT’S NEW AT HARVARD? by the Commencement speaker. Wednesday, May 28, 1:30–2:30 PM Wednesday, May 28, 8:00 PM RADCLIFFE DAY ACTIVITIES Monday, May 26, 1:00 PM Sever Hall Tercentenary Theatre Depart from Quincy House Courtyard We are planning a panel discussion to Friday, May 30, 10:30 AM Enjoy the music of the Harvard Band, Glee Led by Crimson Key Society look at the military and Harvard ROTC Loeb Drama Center Club, and Radcliffe Choral Society. Concerts WALKING TOUR: ART AND ARCHITECTURE in the early 1960s, ROTC’s ouster, and its are free and open to the public. Many alumni Friday, May 30, 12:30 PM ON HARVARD’S CAMPUS reinstatement in 2011. Harvey Weiner ’64, enjoy these presentations, given every year Radcliffe Yard Tent Harvard Army ROTC, will be our moderator; Monday, May 26, 2:00 PM on the eve of Commencement. www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-day he will be joined by retired Navy Capt. Depart from Quincy House Courtyard Paul Mawn ’63 and Lt. Col. Adam Edwards, 363RD COMMENCEMENT: On Radcliffe Day, alumnae, fellows, and Led by Crimson Key Society director of Harvard Army ROTC and THE MORNING EXERCISES friends of Radcliffe gather to celebrate WALKING TOUR: WHAT’S NEW AT HARVARD? professor of military science at MIT. past, present, and future with a combination Thursday, May 29, 9:45–11:30 AM Recently commissioned Harvard officers, of informal connections and structured Monday, May 26, 3:00 PM Tercentenary Theatre their families, and all Harvard veterans programming. Depart from Quincy House Courtyard are invited to attend this discussion. The Morning Exercises consist of orations, Led by Crimson Key Society anthems, and the conferring of degrees on all Harvard Attractions CLASS DAY EXERCISES DISCUSSION WITH DREW GILPIN FAUST graduates. Diplomas are received at ceremonies In addition to the specific offerings planned AND MICHAEL D. SMITH Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM at the Houses and at individual graduate and for Reunion, many Harvard facilities are open Tercentenary Theatre professional Schools. Seating for the Morning to all participants during Reunion. Admission Monday, May 26, 4:30–5:30 PM Exercises is limited. Tickets are required for is gratis with your reunion name badge. Sanders Theatre Senior Class Day is a student-focused, entry to Harvard Yard and are limited to one Visit the websites listed below for additional somewhat informal celebration. In addition The Fiftieth Reunion of the Harvard and per alumnus or alumna. You may pick up your information on hours of operation. to a featured speaker selected by the 2014 Radcliffe Class of 1964 will formally open ticket from headquarters in Quincy House at Class Committee, Class Day Exercises COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL on Monday evening in Sanders Theatre. any time on Wednesday or Thursday. Guests include presentations of the Ames Awards SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard may view a simulcast of the program in and the Harvard and Ivy Orations. University and Lincoln Professor of History, Quincy House or at the Science Center. 1 Oxford Street (Science Center, 1st Floor) and Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty chsi.harvard.edu of Arts and Sciences and John H. Finley, Jr. Harvard University has been acquiring Professor of Engineering and Applied scientific instruments since 1672, and in 1948 Sciences, will engage in an informative established this collection as a resource for session about priorities, initiatives, and teaching and research in the history of science the current state of the University. and technology. View intricate, pioneering 14 instruments dating as far back as ca. 1400. 15 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARIES PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY Multiple locations www.hcl.harvard.edu 11 Divinity Avenue www.peabody.harvard.edu Visit Lamont, Widener, Houghton, or any of the libraries in the Harvard College Library From towering Native American totem poles system. Special access is granted to reunion and large Maya sculptures to precious ancient alumni and guests to access one of the most artifacts, the Peabody Museum—among impressive library collections in the world. the oldest archaeological and ethnographic museums in the world—contains one of PUSEY LIBRARY AND THE HARVARD the finest collections of human cultural UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES history found anywhere. Harvard Yard Experience Digging Veritas: The Archaeology and library.harvard.edu/university-archives History of the Indian College and Student Life at The Harvard University Archives supports Colonial Harvard—using archaeological finds the University’s dual mission of education from Harvard Yard, historic maps, and more, and research by striving to preserve and provide the exhibition reveals how students access to Harvard’s historical records; to gather lived at colonial Harvard, and the role of an accurate, authentic, and complete record of the Indian College in Harvard’s early years. the life of the University; and to promote the Also, visit Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the highest standards of management for Harvard’s Contested West—ambient sound, motion, current records. The Pusey Library also houses scent, and historic and contemporary Plains the Harvard Map Collection—400,000 maps art animate 19th-century Lakota drawings and 6,000 atlases, including large-scale from a warrior’s ledger collected at the topographic world maps. Little Bighorn Battlefield.

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26 Oxford Street Malkin Athletic Center, Mill Street www.hmnh.harvard.edu www.gocrimson.com See the newest exhibition, Final Flight: The Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is located The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, centrally to all the River Houses. The majestic as well as Thoreau’s Maine Woods at the five-story building holds a wealth of options for University’s most visited museum. View the recreational exerciser. Two cardio rooms allow Harvard’s world-famous exhibition of 3,200 visitors to choose from more than 70 pieces of glass models of botanical specimens—exquisitely equipment. In addition to an Olympic-size pool realistic flowers, fruits, and plants crafted by for laps and swimming lessons, there is a smaller Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1886 to pool for aqua aerobics and other activities. The 1936. Museum docents are on hand in galleries Hemenway Gym and Blodgett Pool are also during weekends to answer questions. available to reunion attendees.

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