More than 1,000 alumni and friends will converge on campus Thursday through Sunday for the annual celebration of Union’s graduates, which includes events ranging from scholarly lectures to guided tours of downtown Schenectady to the Saturday night fireworks show at the Nott.
During the weekend festivities, the College will honor two benefactors, John Wold ’38 and David J. Breazzano ’78.
Wold and his wife, Jane, have directed $13 million of their $20 million gift for a multidisciplinary teaching and research center. Wold is a geologist and president of the Wold Minerals Company and former U.S. congressman and Wyoming state representative.
Breazzano, co-founder and principal of an investment firm, recently gave an additional $2 million to support the College’s main fitness facility. The center will be formally renamed Breazzano Fitness Center at a ceremony on Friday, May 30 at 4:30 p.m. at Alumni Gymnasium.
A ceremony to present the Alumni Gold Medals, Faculty Meritorious Award, parade trophies and class gifts will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Memorial Chapel. The event will close with the traditional senior handshake between the Class of 2007 and the 50th ReUnion Class that welcomes the senior class into the alumni body, immediately followed by a chimes concert.
On Friday, May 30 at 3:30 p.m. atBeuth House, the College will honor outstanding engineering alumni at the Engineering Awards Reception.
A lecture and slide presentation with cartoonist and New Yorker nightlife editor John Donohue ’90 will be held Friday, 7:30-9 p.m. at the Nott Memorial as the culmination of the Alumni Writers Series. A reception will follow in Wold House. On Saturday, May 31, 1-3 p.m., Donohue will lead an informal discussion about his work in Wold House.
Other highlights of the weekend include:
· Wold Lecture on Religion and Violence by Yale University Professor John J Collins, Thursday, May 29, 7-8 p.m., Emerson Auditorium, Taylor Music Center
· “Women, Money and Power,” talk by Alissa Quinn ’84 of Smith Barney, Friday, May 30, 4-5:30 p.m., Sorum House
· Performances of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” Thursday-Saturday, May 29-31, 8 p.m. and Sunday, 2 p.m., Yulman Theatre.
For complete details, go to: http://www.union.edu/events/reunion/.