Two weekends before Commencement the College welcomed back several hundred alumni and their families.
In addition to the traditional Reunion parade and an assortment of class dinners and other activities, the Alumni Council presented several awards.
Receiving Alumni Gold Medals for service to the College were Ernest Gardow'56, Cindy Wolfson Sipkin'76, and Joseph P. Zolner'76.
Gardow has been an Alumni Council member since 1975 and a leader of alumni events in the Hartford (Conn.) area. Sipkin has organized a number of alumni events in the New York City area, including the popular cruises aboard the Clearwater sloop, and is a member of the
College's Trustee Board of Advisors. Zolner, a past president of the Alumni Council, is a tireless admissions recruiter in the Boston area.
The Faculty Meritorious Service Award went to Donald Thurston, who is retiring as professor of history and political science. Thurston was the first director of the College's East Asian Studies program and was a frequent faculty member in residence for terms abroad in China and Japan.
As for the parade, the Anable Cup for the greatest number marching went to the Class of 1986, the McClellan Cup for highest class percentage went to the Class of 1936, and the Van Voast/Class of 1941 Cup for best costume went to the Class of 1946.
The following officers were elected by their classes over Reunion Weekend:
1936
President, Joseph E. Milano; Vice President, Gerard A. Neumann; Secretary, Burton B. Delack; Treasurer, Morton H. Yulman; Alumni Council Representatives, Milano and Thomas N. Palmatier
1946
President, James W. Fry; Vice President, Albert K. Hill; Alumni Council
Representatives, William W. Beck and August E. Cerrito; Reunion 2001 Chair, Craig F. Mitchell
1951
President, Richard J. Killeen; Vice President, Sigmund C. Giambruno; Secretary and Correspondent, Richard A. Sitts; Treasurer, Alfred H. McKinlay; Alumni Council Representatives, Killeen, Giambruno, and Wolfgang J. Riemer; Reunion 2001 CoChairs, Van Der Bogert Shanklin and Arthur C. Glover
1956
President, Ernest B. Gardow; Vice President, Roy H. Nordstrand; Secretary, Alan G. Greene; Alumni Council Representatives, Gardow and Donald P. Hirshorn; Reunion 2001 Chair, Howard Levy
1961
President, James Reisman; Vice President, Howard G. Carpenter; Secretary, Jerry Thurston; Alumni Council Representatives, Stuart E. Cohen and Mark Wilson; Reunion 2001 Chairs, Cohen and William J. Condon
1966
President, Lawrence E. Fabian; Vice President, Howard Clark; Secretary, Robert H. Rice, Jr.; Alumni Council Representatives, G. Anders Carlson and Douglas V. Fox; Reunion 2001
Co-Chairs, Donald Lehmann and Richard G. Powell
1971
President, Allan A. Rose; Vice President, Jonathan Conly; Secretary, Henry Fein; Alumni Council Representatives, Victor Lerish and C. Michael Reger; Reunion 2001 Chair, Paul K. Male
1976
Co-Presidents, Meredith August and Jeanne Neumann O'Neill; Vice President, Cindy Wolfson Sipkin; Secretary, Lou-Anne M. Beauregard; Alumni Council Representatives, Lewis Insler and Louise Dunn; Reunion 2001 Co-Chairs, Charlotte Hawkins Burrell and Joan Lundstrom Jantz
1981
President, Samuel Post; Vice President, Susan Farley Gullotti; Secretary, Laurel Mastrogiovianni; Alumni Council Representative, Kathleen Donohue; Reunion 2001 Co-Chairs, Lisa Lessard and Post
1986
President, Jacqueline Dunbar; Vice President, John Seebold; Secretary, Eric Lipman; Alumni Council Representatives, Marianne Hladik Limoges; Reunion 2001 Chair, Jacqueline Dunbar
1991
Alumni Council Representatives, Ellen M. Nichols, Hans R. Schwarz, and Nina C. Smilari; Reunion 2001 Chair, Ellen M. Nichols, Hans R. Schwarz, and Nina C. Smilari