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Looking back on Reunion 2008
Photos from Reunion (photos can be downloaded)
1938 (70th Reunion)
1943 (65th Reunion)
1948 (60th Reunion)
1958 (50th Reunion)
1968 (40th Reunion)
1977-79 (30th Reunion cluster)
1983 (25th Reunion)
1998 (10th Reunion)
2002-04 (5th Reunion cluster)
Click on the links below to watch and listen to presentations from Reunion 2008. Please note that they are formatted in Quicktime and require you to have Quicktime installed on your computer. Visit our help page if you experience trouble viewing the presentations.
Alumni Lecture: Robert Hodierne '68 (285MB, .mov format). Hodierne discusses "Lessons Unlearned," comparing the Vietnam conflict with the current situation in Iraq.
Alumni College: Jim Kissane '52, professor emeritus of English (54MB, .mp3 format). Kissane presents "Poetry: Who’s Talking and Who’s Listening?" Poetry seems to emphasize both “sincerity” and “simulation.” One of its many pleasures is concentrated, often bold, self-expression; but another is its crafty way of exhibiting fictive characters in invented situations. This lecture will consider these contrasting aspects (with examples) and on that basis will venture a comparison of the art of poetry with the (imperiled) art of civilized conversation.
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