50th-75th Reunion Draft Schedule (as of 4/18/2022)

5:00: Welcome Reception Casual reception on Whitnall Field with light food and drinks.

An opportunity for alumni to reconnect. Food trucks to follow.

8:00 pm: Open House for Friends of Bill W. (Alcoholics Anonymous)

10:00: Village of Hamilton Tour: Joan Prindle, Hamilton Assistant Historian

10:00: Athletics Panel: Stan Dakosty, Fred '50 and Marilyn Dunlap Head Football Coach,

Greg Fargo, Head Women's Ice Hockey Coach,  Matt Langel, Head Men's Basketball Coach,

Ganiyat Adeduntan,  Head Women's Basketball Coach

10:00: Rock Around the Sixties: Marietta Cheng, Professor of Music and Director of the Colgate University Orchestra

11:00: Athletics Facilities Tour: Athletics senior staff

11:00: Admissions at Colgate (participants TBD)

11:00: Jon Alpert ’70 Documentary: “COVID Diaries NYC”. This film explores the lives of five young filmmakers who turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC.

1:30: What Happened to the News? The technical, economic, and ethical changes that have affected journalism

as we once knew it in the “Walter Cronkite era”: Professor Tim Byrnes, Third Century Chair in Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Professor of Political Science; Chair, Political Science Department;

Matthew Luttig, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Marc Rosenbaum ’70

1:30: Climate change in our time and Colgate’s journey to carbon neutrality: John Pumilio, Director of Sustainability, Colgate University

2:30: Future of American Healthcare-Your Challenges and Opportunities: Dr. Michael Wolk '60, cardiologist; Jeffery E. Coakley, President and CEO, Community Memorial Hospital.

2:30: The Core Curriculum - It’s role in our education and its impact on our lives after graduation: Rebecca Metzler, Associate Professor of Physics; Meg Worley, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric; Chuck Betz ’70, Jonathan Sulds ’71, John Romano ’70

2:30: Why Art Matters: Painting in Architecture, Jeremiah Eck ’67 Architect, Landscape Painter, Author and former Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

3:30: Panel on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Colgate, inspired by Alonzo McCullum ’72: Renee Madison, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Todd Brown ’71, Leroy Cody ’71, and Naceo Giles ’70

3:30: Jon Alpert ’70 Documentary: “Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive”: This Emmy Award-winning documentary tells the story of six "ordinary" people who live or work along New York City's Third Avenue, which runs for sixteen miles through Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, to reveal wildly different economic and ethnic subcultures.  Called "a triumph of its kind" by the Washington Post, this is an unsentimental portrait of the uncommon lives of common people.

4:30: LGBTQ Tour and Reception

4:30: Military/Veterans & Law Enforcement Tunk 4:30: The Michael Saperstein Jewish Center Alumni Reception followed by Sabbath Service

10:30: Tennis Round Robin

10:30: The Intellectual Climate on Colgate Campus (Bob Kraynak, Professor of Political Science Director, Center for the Freedom and Western Civilization)

10:30: Turning Points in the History of the Upper Campus: Architectural Tour and Conversation: Bob McVaugh, Professor of Art & Art History

10:30: Frank Furness, Architect of an American Style: Jim Tevebaugh ’61

11:30: Session with President Brian W. Casey

12:00 to 6:00 pm:  Glendening Boathouse Open 12:30: Lunch on your own

2:00: Come Catch the Spirit: Bruce Barth ‘60 and David Isaacs ‘60 What in your 80+years has shaped you into who you are today? Who are you today? What might be possible for us going forward?

2:00: The Sum of Our Choices: Survey Findings from the Classes of 1970 and 1971: Anthony Masi ’70 and Mark Nozette ’71 2:00: TDB Ron Hoham, Professor of Biology Emeritus, Upper Campus Landscape Walk

2:00: Coeducation Panel

3:00: Athletics Salvage Sale 3:00: Varsity alumni/Coaches meet & greet

3:00: The Historic Pandemic: Stepping back to assess the lasting impact: Geoffrey Holm, Associate Professor of Biology 3:00: Jon Alpert ’70: A compilation of excerpts from several documentaries on a range of subjects, followed by a Q&A.

6:00: 50th Reunion Dinner hosted by President Brian W. Casey

6:00 pm: Post-50th Dinners

Sunday, June 5 9:30: Shavuot Service

12:00 to 6:00 pm:  Glendening Boathouse Open