• Direct Delivery of E-News Begins With This Issue
• Recent Alumni Gatherings
• Make Your Plans for Reunion 2002
• Great WRA Gift Ideas Online
• Web-based Alumni Directory Now Available
• Gramentine Book Due Out Shortly
• NASA Astronaut Lee Morin '70 Spacewalks
• Planned Giving Committee Hosts Luncheon
  
  

Direct Delivery of E-News Begins With This Issue

Beginning with this issue, you will no longer have to go to the Reserve website for the latest Alumni Association E-News. As you can see, it is now being delivered directly to your e-mail, although this issue and back issues will also be archived on the Reserve website. (Note: Delivery does not apply to AOL e-mail accounts.)

Links throughout this newsletter will take you to the site, which contains a wealth of information about current goings-on at Reserve, as well as a calendar of events, the latest news on Reunion 2002, and the scoop on recent regional gatherings. If you still love and have an interest in Reserve, visit www.wra.net often.

Alumni Receptions Remain Popular

Austin, San Francisco, Naples, and Boston were on the list of alumni gathering spots over the winter and early spring.

The first post-holiday event was in Boston at the Bay Tower Room, where 51 alumni representing classes spanning the past 40 years enjoyed an evening together. In March, 35 alumni representing 12 classes met in San Francisco for cocktails and a performance of the musical Stomp. On St. Patrick's Day, another 35 basked in the warmth of the Naples sun while brunching at the Naples Sailing and Yacht Club. In early April, veteran Latin teacher John Breuker greeted members of the Reserve family at the Copper Tank Brewing Co. in Austin, Texas. To see which friends and classmates attended these events, click on the links under Recent Event Highlights (right column).

Make Your Plans for Reunion Weekend

Spring has sprung. The grass has riz. Do you remember when Reunion is?

If not, mark your calendar now for June 7, 8, and 9 because planning is well underway for Reunion Weekend 2002. Please take a moment to look at the Reunion Weekend schedule, the latest RSVP list, Saturday evening class dinner details, and more by referring to the links under the Reunion 2002 banner (right column).

Of course, all classes are invited, but 2002 is an official Reunion year for classes ending in 2 or 7. The Reserve community and the Alumni Association Board look forward to seeing you there. So Reunion year class members: watch the mail for your reservation materials.

Shop Online for WRA Clothing and Gifts

Do you remember when Robin S. (Wally) Wallace ran the WRA bookstore out of a closet on the main floor of Seymour Hall? If not, you may remember Peg Clewell managing it on the first floor of Seymour, or later, in another, albeit larger, closet on the Chapel ground floor. Today, parents and local alumni frequently visit the spacious Campus Store in the Metcalf Center (the former faculty garage and maintenance shop) to buy gifts or sportswear, and now Campus Store manager Eva Fitzgerald invites alumni worldwide to do the same online. Drop by the new Online Campus Store to browse through and purchase some of the store's more popular items. Just place your selections in the online shopping cart and head for check out. Need a great summer golf shirt or hat, or a birthday gift for a Reserve alum? Simply click here.

Join the Reserve Online Alumni Directory

Alumni Association president Anne Campbell Goodman '84 is excited to announce that the Association is sponsoring a new Online Alumni Directory. Perhaps you have already received your letter from the Association explaining how to register. It's easy and takes no more than two minutes. So far over 300 alumni have registered.

The key to making the directory a valuable tool is to register and share your information. Here are the benefits:

• It's fast, secure, and convenient to register;
• Specific safeguards are in place to protect your privacy;
• The directory offers simple and advanced search features. Search by city, class year, name, state, college, etc.;
• It's the best way to share current information.
  

Watch the mail for your Alumni Association letter due to arrive in your mail shortly and follow the simple instructions to register. For first time users, your user ID is your last name; your password is provided in your letter and is also printed on the spring Reserve Alumni Record mailing label. Click here to take a quick look at the Online Alumni Directory main page.

Reserve's History Further Chronicled

Change and Constancy: Western Reserve Academy, 1967-1982, the latest installment of the history of Western Reserve Academy, will be available by Reunion weekend, June 7-9. The 250-page paperback book (including appendices and more than 100 photographs) was researched and authored by Reserve alumnus Jim Gramentine.

"The book covers the administrations of headmasters Peter Briggs and Hunter Temple during an era of social revolution, a period when the world turned upside down and Reserve was profoundly changed," Jim explains. "My fundamental purpose is to explain what was changed, how, why, and by whom. To a considerable degree, it is the students' tale. Forty-seven alumni/ae were interviewed. Students, assisted by their faculty friends, were the principal agents of change, though they are largely unaware of that, even today."

Jim graduated from Reserve in 1952 and was a member of the Reserve faculty from 1958 to 1972. He also was serving as admissions director when the first girls were accepted in 1972. The book is his principal gift to his alma mater on the occasion of his 50th reunion.

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