This page will make available the most up-to-date information available about our 50th Reunion, now scheduled for AUGUST 7 – 10, 2022.

The most current version of the Reunion Schedule is available here.

Reunion Launch:  June 10 and 11, 2021:

Thursday, June 10, noon EST:  All-college Q&A with President Maud S. Mandel

Friday, June 11:

Noon  EDT:  Society of Alumni Annual Meeting, featuring announcement of our Class Gift.

5:00 PM EDT:  Class of ’71 Reunion Launch Zoom


 

The program:

  • First, Geo Estes and Kennedy Richardson report on our Class Gift.  After that,
  • Williams College Campus Then and Now:  4:11
  • Remarks from President Maud S. Mandel:  12:23
  • A look at some of the results from our survey:  23:50
  • Gordon Clapp’s musing on aging:  30:32
  • Excerpts from Paul Lieberman’s video on coeducation:  39:04
  • Creating our Reunion Commemorative Bowl:  56:04
  • Greetings from overseas classmates:  1:03:55
  • In Memoriam — classmates we’ve lost since our 45th:  1:15:59
  • Closing remarks:  1:17:03
  • And, as is our custom in our mountain land, two verses of The Mountains:  1:23:12

We’re glad so many of us were able to get together as we kicked off our Reunion Celebration!

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January 21, 2021:  The College announced that Reunions will not be held on campus in the summer of 2021, given the “continuing challenges posed by Covid-19”.  The text of the announcement is available here.

Steve Brown sent the following email from the class leadership, explaining what this means to us:

Dear Classmates and Friends/Family of ’71,

     It is now official – our June, 2021 reunion  has been postponed with a date to be determined later. We have attached the College’s announcement just in case you have not seen it –  https://alumni.williams.edu/reunion/

    What’s this mean for us?  

             1. We will definitely have a reunion where we can all get together – most likely in summer of 2022!! We will update you as soon as we hear more from the College.  

             2. We will have a virtual reunion via Zoom on the second weekend  of this coming June. It will be short, fun and provide a preview of what our in-person reunion will look like  — think of it as  teaser for our big bash in Williamstown in 2022.   More details to come.

             3.  Geo Estes, Ken Richardson, and Dave Olson will end their very hard work raising money for the Class Gift on June, 2021.

             4. Class Book – John Chambers is happy that the postponement will allow more classmates to submit personal statements, adding to the 122 already in hand.

     We will be in touch in the next couple of weeks with more information/ questions, but wanted to make sure you knew the  status as soon as the College announced it.

     Stay safe!!

      Rob, John C, John A, Geo, Ken, Dave, and Steve