Class of 1970

Welcome! Our reunion is rescheduled (for the second time!) to Thursday, April 28 – Sunday, May 1, 2022!

Additional information about the schedule and other events will be posted here as they are finalized but here is the hotel information – make your reservations now!

• Sheraton South Hartford (special block rate of $119/nt – mention Wesleyan 50^th Reunion) Local # 860/257-6000 Toll-Free Reservation Center 1/888/627-8263

• Inn at Middletown (special block rate of $189/nt for reservations made before 3/14/22. Promo code WESU50th) www.innatmiddletown.com or call directly 860/854/6300

Reunion Details:

• Take a look at your classmates planning to attend reunion
  

Memories:

• Read classmate stories about “Vietnam and Draft Board Memories”. (Feel free to send your story to klynch@wesleyan.edu to be added to this narrative)
• Read a timeline of external events from 1966-1970
• Watch the documentary Second Time Around from Bill Jefferson
• Read the Grateful Dead Guide May 3, 1970
• Watch the March on Washington (1970) from Steve Talbot (Password: March)
• Watch 1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation from PBS and Steve Talbot (Password 1968)
• Read The Class of 1970 Fiftieth Reunion Book
• Isabele Echavarria '23: Documentary on the 1970 Wesleyan Student Strike
• Watch a recording of 1972’s April 14, 2021 Interview with President Emeritus Colin G. Campbell
• Watch a recording of the 1972 40th Reunion Panel: Student Freedoms and Responsibilities

Pre-Reunion Fun:

• View photos from the 50th Reunion brunch in NE CT and the Santa Monica lunch