How do we feel about where we are today compared to where we thought we’d be on graduation? How do we feel about the state of the world today and what can we do to improve it? After an hour of small group discussions, we will reassemble and share our ideas (and do a small amount of class business.)

Moderators, Fay Hannon, ‘67 & Jacquie Olds, ‘67

More than anything, our reunion is about getting together. We have set aside several time slots for affinity groups to get together. We will provide several ways to organize your gatherings, and will have rooms available. Affinity groups can be college organizations (The Crimson, Lampoon, Track and Field team, WHRB, for example), current interests (the environment, privacy, social service)., whatever you’d like. Let us know and we will make space available.

a. LGBTQ Affinity group meeting, 3-4pm

Moderator, Leslie Horst, ‘67

b. Other affinity group meetings to be scheduled

Memorial Hall, Sanders Theatre

Harvard University Band Performance

Science Center Plaza Tent

Three poets from the class will read their works: Jean McClung Goodwin, Jerry Costanzo, Honor Moore.

A Time for Song

Come join some of your Harvard classmates for 45 minutes of songs from our years at school and some of the social movements of the time. Help make the resonant wooden walls of Sanders Theater resound with a combination of popular and topical songs coming not just from the stage but also from your seats. We will have whole days of talking during our reunion, but this is a chance for music, song, memories and community. Join ’67 grads Tony Seeger, Steve Blodgett, David Hiatt, Leslie Horst, Chuck Smiler and Judy (Austin) Seeger ’66 – the group as of mid- March – for a Harvard Hootenanny. It should be fun. It will be short. The instruments are so far all acoustic. And you are all welcome, even if you just want to enjoy the acoustics of Sanders in silence. No pre-requisites, no requirements, no final exam, but a unique 50 th reunion experience.

-Tony Seeger

Science Center, Hall B

Over a period of two years, 175 classmates have contributed 585 pages of thoughtful and moving accounts of the effects, then and now, of choices made during the Vietnam War. The resulting e-book has been sent to all classmates, and is available on the class website, hr67.org. We hope you all will have read it. This will be a three-hour open microphone session at which other classmates may tell their own stories and comment on the book.

We wish to thank all the authors for their efforts.
          Moderator, Charlie Kimball
          Editorial Committee: Beth Hadas, Ted Hammett, Tim Hatfield, Charlie Kimball, Jim Metcalf, Tony Obst, Pete Rogers

House & Dorm Lunch

Science Center, Hall B

From haute cuisine to soft matter science, Pia Sörenson, Preceptor in Science of Cooking undergraduate course; and David Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, will explore aspects of gastronomy combined with basic concepts in the science of soft materials. This talk showcases highlights and examples from the wildly popular undergraduate course that brings some of the world’s most famous chefs to Cambridge.  What better way to learn about science than by creating great food?

When we were in the 8^th grade, Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, was in his senior year at Hibbing High School in northern Minnesota. Zimmerman was half-listening to lectures from his father Abe and gentle reminders from his mother Beatty about the value of a college education. No doubt, most of us received similar advice, but while we gave it four years, he gave it one semester and never looked back.

By the time he performed at our Jubilee Weekend with fellow folkie Joan Baez in tow, he had recorded three albums, played Carnegie Hall, traveled across the country a few times, and was in the third year of a five-year contract with Columbia, for whom he still records. This session offers an audio-visual glimpse into some of the forces at work in his life, in Cambridge, and in our lives during the four-year period from September of 1963 to June of 1967. A brief look at his heritage and his years in Minnesota will be included, and a packet of resources will be available.
        
(Bob Dylan has just decided to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature. –ed.)

Presenter: Phil Fitzpatrick

Panel Discussion: Dancing Backward in Heels: Fifty Years of the Women’s Movement

Moderator: Nancy Uhlar Murray ‘67

Panel Discussion, Isabella Hinds ’67, Kate Kirby ’67, Harriet McGurk ’67, Cynthia McClintock ‘67

What was it like to challenge sexist student quotas at undergraduate colleges, and graduate schools of law, medicine, business, education, the arts? To fight for legalization of contraception, not to mention abortion? To change the American family, so that income of a spouse didn’t determine power? To become strong woman role models? To insist on equal pay for equal work?

The women of the class of the class of sixty-seven were on the cutting edge of what’s called The Second Wave of Feminism. They know what it was like: to go to a rampantly sexist medical school, to be the first woman lawyer at a Wall Street firm, to stand up and demand equal pay, to raise kids as a single parent while working full time, to be belittled and to triumph.

Did the movement triumph? Has real progress for women been made in the past 50 years? Did Harvard help this struggle? Our Radcliffe/Harvard sisters in the class of sixty-seven will tell us.

Sean Palfrey ’67 and Judy Palfrey ’67, Masters of Adams House since 1999 (17 years) and Faculty Deans of Adams House for one year. Judy is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and of Public Health at the Chan School.  Sean is Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University.

Topics to be covered:

- Rapidly increasing diversity of students – admissions policies and goals
- Rapidly increasing diversity of courses – science, engineering, computer science, drama and the arts
- Toward a “Transformative Experience” – finding, supporting and educating students who can become worthy and productive leaders in our challenging global society.
- House life and the importance of communities – social, intellectual, spiritual
- House and Departmental Advising
- The spectrum of extracurricular activities – from sports to service learning
- Volunteering and the value of non-academic experience, for personal and intellectual growth.
- Preparation for postgraduate life – well-grounded national and international exposure, fellowships and jobs
- Mentoring after Harvard – House support, HAA and beyond

 

How attuned are you to the issues of diversity and inclusion?  Join classmates as we reflect on our personal experiences with these values in our tempestuous and transitional college years, and how those times and experiences shaped both our adult lives and the culture, world and nation we inhabit today. We will learn and discuss how Harvard is addressing these opportunities and challenges, and how we as alumni and citizens might assist in responding as threats to diversity and inclusiveness increase in the current climate.

Panel Discussion: Politics—How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do?

Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin?  In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs

Working through the background and consequences of this proposal, Lisa Randall shares with us the latest findings—established and speculative—regarding the nature and role of dark matter and the origin of the Universe, our galaxy, our Solar System, and life, along with the process by which scientists explore new concepts. She tells a breathtaking story that weaves together the cosmos’ history and our own, illuminating the deep relationships that are critical to our world and the astonishing beauty inherent in the most familiar things.

Lisa Randall is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
 

The free press is assaulted as the “enemy of the American people,” and yet a democracy cannot thrive without accurate, rigorous reporting. The finances of print journalism are increasingly imperiled, and the future for young journalists is uncertain. Conspiracy theories, implausible “facts” and dubious “news” emanate from thousands of questionable “sources” and feed a murky atmosphere of almost medieval superstition, suspicion, accusation, and anxiety. The press faces a climate of distrust, yet rarely has the country more urgently needed solid reporting and informed analysis. Five eminent journalists from the class of ’67 will ponder these matters.

The Forerunners, from the class of ‘67 – they have been with us all along.  Old guys, new playlist. They will be rocking hard, and you can dance… if you can handle it. The audience will have a few hundred attending physicians. Enjoy it. We have gotten no promises about the 55^th reunion. This may be the only rock band in America whose manager lives in New Zealand.
         
Jeff Jordan, Gale Merseth, Peter Rodman, Eric Valdina
Tony Marks, Manager