Reunion Weekend: Weekend Schedule

Reunion Weekend 2008 Schedule. Posted below is a preliminary schedule of events for Reunion Weekend 2008, June 6, 7 and 8. Please check back several times between now and early June for occasional schedule updates and additions.

Questions? Contact the Alumni & Development Office by phone at 330.650.9701 or by e-mail at alumni@wra.net. Do you have schedule suggestions? Please pass them along to Greta Rothman by phone at 330.650.5862 or by e-mail at rothmang@wra.net.

Thursday, June 5
7 pm

Reserved for special dinners TBA.  

Friday, June 6
9 am-5 pm Campus Store Open - Visit the Online Campus Store
10 am

Sixth Annual Golf Classic at The Country Club of Hudson

10 am           Registration at The Country Club of Hudson

10:15 am      Brunch

11:30 am      Shotgun Tee-Off

(Post-play reception in the club house)

Tour of Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Kit Kincade ‘58 will lead a car tour of this nearby facility with stops at interesting points of natural or human history. Picnic lunch.  Side hikes will probably be no more than a mile.  (Meet in front of Ellsworth Dining Hall at 10:00 am – open to all non golfers)

3-7 pm

Reunion Registration - Ellsworth Dining Hall

Pick up information packet, room keys and name tags

6:30-9:45 pm

Child Care - available in the Green Key (basement of Ellsworth)

Parents must sign children in and out with the supervisors

6:30 pm Headmaster's Reception & Dinner Dance - Ellsworth Dining Hall
Saturday, June 7
8:30-9:45 am

Breakfast Buffet at Pierce House - Includes special presentation by Tom Vince, WRA Archivist and Historian

9 - 5 pm Campus Store Open - Visit the Online Campus Store
10 am - 2 pm

Registration - Ellsworth Lawn

10 am Class of '53 Self-Guided Tour of Murdough Athletic Center - meet in Murdough Athletic Center Lobby

11 am

Chapel Program - Celebration of Excellence - Chapel

                                            

Waring Prize Presentation

  • Recipient: Colin Bradford ’57

  • Presenter:  Helen Gregory, Director of Academy Advancement

Morley Science Medal Presentation

  • Recipient: Robert Wilson '65
  • Presenter:  Marie Fiedler, Faculty Master

Alumni Association Award Presentation

  • Recipient:  Holsey Gates Handyside '45
  • Presenter:  Lorraine Debose '93, President of AAB

Tribute to Skip and Britt Flanagan

Remembrance of Deceased Classmates (those alumni who have passed away since the last Reunion)

12:30 pm

Alumni and Family Picnic - Ellsworth Tent, Ellsworth lawn

Children's activities will be provided

2:00 pm Frank "Stretch" Longstreth, A Tribute to an Inspirational Teacher and Coach - Chapel
3:00 pm

Post-Tribute Reception - Ellsworth Dining Hall

3:30 pm

Wine Tasting & Art Show - Moos Gallery

View the artwork of Carl Ortman ’93 while learning about wines from around the world – sponsored by the Alumni Association Board
Alumni Soccer Game - Ellsworth field
Campus Tour led by WRA Archivist & Historian Tom Vince - Leave from Ellsworth Patio

4:00 pm Conversation with Skip and Britt Flanagan- Main Level of the John D. Ong Library
Open to classes of 1933, 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953 and 1958
5 -11 pm

Individual Class Dinners - Please see class dinner information page for your dinner details

5:30 - 9:45 pm Child Supervision - available in the Green Key (basement of Ellsworth)  Parents must sign children in and out with the supervisors.
9:45 pm Fireworks - Ellsworth Patio
sunday, June 8
9 -11:30 am

Breakfast Buffet - Ellsworth Dining Hall





Reunion Weekend Menu
•  Weekend Schedule
•  Golf Classic Info
•  Register Online
•  Guest List
•  Class of 1958 Page
•  Class of 1983 Page
•  Class of 2003 Page
•  Accommodations
•  Make Your Reunion Gift
•  Reunion Highlights
•  Campus Store