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[Reunion & Commencement Weekend]

[Reunion & Commencement Weekend May 21-24, 2009]

Reunion & Commencement 2009 Highlights

[Fayerweather still from R&C recap video on YouTube] Watch a video recap of Reunion & Commencement Weekend! Follow @wesleyan_u on Twitter or become a fan of Wesleyan on Facebook to get the latest announcements. More updates to come.

Your assessment of Reunion & Commencement Weekend

We want your feedback! As we begin planning for Reunion & Commencement 2010 (May 20 - 23), we look carefully at past successes and examine areas that may need improvement. To do this effectively, we need your help. Please take a few minutes to let us know what worked well and what needs more attention. To make the assessment process easy and convenient for you, we offer a web based survey at the link below. http://www.wesleyan.edu/rc/2009/assessment/index.html

Videos of WESeminars

Streaming video of many of the WESeminars featured during Reunion & Commencement are now available through Wesleyan's iTunes site within the WESeminars podcast for Reunion & Commencement. If you do not have iTunes open, you will have to answer the prompt to launch iTunes.  You may also view the videos through direct links to your default media player.

  1. Hope’s Boy: An Hour with Author Andrew Bridge (iTunes, download)
  2. Demystifying College Admissions: Prominent Observers from Three Generations Provide Their Perspective (iTunes, download)
  3. Healthcare Reform in the New Administration: What Will Change? (iTunes, download)
  4. Journalism Today: Katha Pollitt (iTunes, download)
  5. Telling Stories: The Lives of an Attorney and Novelist Intersect (iTunes, download)
  6. Sebastian Junger: On the Frontlines of History (iTunes, download)
  7. From Bench to Bedside: The Role of Basic Research in the Conquest of Human Disease (iTunes, download)
  8. Don’t Look Down: A Life in the Theater (iTunes, download)
  9. The Future of Energy: United States Domestic and Foreign Policy Perspectives (iTunes, download)

177th Commencement

Video Online

[Commencement streaming video (requires Quicktime)] Streaming video of Wesleyan’s 177th Commencement is now available. Please note that both Quicktime Player and a high-speed Internet connection are required to view the broadcasts.

  1. Procession
  2. Welcome
  3. Invocation
  4. Chair Welcome
  5. Senior Class Welcome
  6. President’s Remarks by Michael S. Roth ’78
  7. Conferring of degrees
  8. Honorary degrees
  1. Commencement Address by Anna Quindlen P’07
  2. Doctorate and graduate degrees
  3. Additional honorary degrees
  4. Undergraduate degrees (A–D)
  5. Undergraduate degrees (E–L)
  6. Undergraduate degrees (M–S)
  7. Undergraduate degrees (T–Z)
  8. Singing and recessional

Coverage in The Wesleyan Connection

Reunion Photos

[Dar Williams ’89]    [Adam and Todd Stone ’05]    [Doug Berman ’84]    [Alumni at R&C 2009] [50th Reunion Dinner]    [Donor Associates]    [Board Dinner]    [Wesleyan Assembly] [Class of 09]    [Class Dinners]    [Alumni Of Color Reception]    [Happy Families] [All-College Sing]    [Commencement!]   

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Reunion class photos are available for viewing and for purchase at: http://www.panfoto.com/photography/reunions/index.cfm

Class of 2009 photos (senior photo and orientation photo) are available for viewing and for purchase at: http://www.panfoto.com/photography/reunions/index.cfm