9- 11 a.m.

• College of Film and Moving Image, Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies, West Lobby/Patio

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

• College of Education Studies Senior and Alumni Reception 
  164 Mount Vernon Street 
  • Families, friends and alumni are invited to celebrate the Class of 2025 and the 5th year anniversary of the College of Education Studies 
• SISP/FGSS/PHIL, Allbritton Hall, 311
• Classical Studies, Downey 200 (Lounge)  

11 a.m-12 p.m.

• Economics, Frank Center for Public Affairs, 301 

11 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

• College of East Asian Studies (CEAS), Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies 
  11:00 a.m. Japanese Garden Tour with Garden Curator, Stephen Morrell
  11:45 a.m. Asian Music Ensemble Performance
  12:30 p.m. Outreach Program Activity & Refreshments
  12:00-3:00 p.m. CEAS Gallery Exhibition: Namdoo Kim’s Underland, A Unique Lens on the Hidden Realities
  
  

1-2:30 p.m. 

• Art History, Gribbel Room, Olin Memorial Library 

1-3 p.m. 

• COL Senior Reception and Reunion, Boger Hall 324 (COL Library) 
• Religion and Jewish Studies, 171 Church Street, 101 
• Psychology, Zelnick Pavilion  

1-3:30 p.m. 

• Sociology, Russell House 

1:30-3 p.m. 

• CSS Reception for Graduation Seniors, CSS Lounge (Frank Center for Public Affairs 304)
• QAC, Allbritton 103

2-3 p.m. 

• Writing Workshop and Multilingual Writings, Shapiro Center for Creative Writing & Criticism, 116 Mt. Vernon Street, Patio

2-3:30 p.m. 

• Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies, Fisk 208

2-4 p.m.

• Natural Science and Mathematics Academic Open House, Exley Science Center (ESC) Patio (ESC Lobby rain location) 
• Joe Webb Peoples Museum, Exley Science Center, 4th floor
• Romance Languages, Highwaymen Common Room 
• Anthropology, Anthropology 6 
• English, Downey House 200 (Lounge) 
• Alumni and Students of Color Reception and African American Studies Open House
  
  • 2 p.m. recognition in the Center for African American Studies
  • 3 p.m. reception and remarks in the Center for the Arts Green, small tent

2:30-4 p.m. 

• Art Studio, Zilkha Main Gallery 

3-4 p.m.

• German Studies, Fisk Patio

3-5 p.m.

• CSS Alumni Reception, CSS Lounge (Frank Center for Public Affairs 304)
• Theater, Theater Patio and Room 114 (East Room)

Reunion alumni, the Class of 2025, and families: join in this festive annual Wesleyan tradition, featuring a live parade band.

The parade begins promptly at 11:30 a.m., rain or shine, beginning at Huss Courtyard (behind Usdan University Center), down College Row, and into Memorial Chapel. The parade is followed by the Wesleyan Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association.

If you aren't able to attend in person, please join us on Zoom.

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FGLI graduates and their families are invited to this special lunch. This event is coordinated by fans and supporters in The Resource Center (especially the Socioeconomic Status & Disability Interns) and the rest of the Office for Equity & Inclusion.  

The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery showcases a selection of work from the Class of 2025’s thesis students in the Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio Program. Works shown are in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and architecture. The exhibition is curated by students as part of a tutorial in curatorial practice. 

A reception for Selections from the 2025 Senior Theses in Studio Art Exhibition will take place Saturday, May 24 from 2:30pm to 4pm; with remarks at 3pm in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.

All post 50th reunion alumni (classes of 1974 and earlier) and their guests are invited for this complimentary lunch immediately following the Alumni Assembly and Awards program. Michael Whalen, Frank V. Sica Director of Athletics and Chair, Physical Education will provide remarks. Please register within weekend registration by May 12.  

Leave Earth behind with Unique Collections this weekend. Our open house will be “out of this world,” exploring topics from outer space to Mt. Olympus including celestial bodies, cosmology, astrology, and the history of astronomy on campus. See how people from the ancient world to the modern have made art inspired by the stars and grappled with questions about the universe and its many facets.  

This open house will let you interact with artifacts, objects, and recordings from the World Music Archives & Music Library, Archaeology & Anthropology Collections, East Asian Art & Archival Collections, and Special Collections & Archives.   

You can also fold your own star chart! The Book Arts Lab will teach you the traditional Turkish map fold, using images reproduced from a nineteenth-century Atlas of Astronomy. 

Stone and Stone: Back on Campus 

"Stone and Stone" is Adam Stone '05 and Todd Stone '05, the half-gay, half-straight, identical twin comedy duo who birthed their comedy show on the Wesleyan campus more than 20 years ago. They've been featured on NBC's "Last Comic Standing," roasted Dennis Rodman, appeared in John Wick: Chapter 2, and very possibly in your Instagram feed. Don't miss them for reunion weekend!

Join us for a presentation and discussion of the projects in Theater’s 2024-2025 season and the way they reflect the department’s commitment to performance as a methodology of inquiry and collaboration. These works explore theater as a relationship between style, genre, and area within the discipline—each one an invitation to engage with the diverse approaches to theater and performance that students cultivate during their years at Wesleyan. 

Our graduating seniors will share brief presentations of their projects and reflect on their creative processes, ranging from one-semester explorations across performance areas to two-semester Honors Theses, which are yearlong investigations integrating artistic practice with sustained research and academic writing.  

Featured works span acting, directing, design, playwriting, devising, and lecture-performance, offering a wide range of aims and approaches to storytelling and performance-making. 

Join us for a cocktail hour to celebrate Wesleyan alumni interested in entrepreneurship, investment, and social innovation. Connect with leaders from across sectors and explore potential opportunities for collaboration and partnership.

OPTIONAL RSVP

In the 1970s, we at Wesleyan could be optimistic about our place in America. We were students at a university that ahead of many of its peers actively examined the need for diversity and justice. Alongside us, the civil rights movement promised the dismantlement of institutionalized racism, the push for the Equal Rights Amendment and Title 9 offered equality for women, and soon-to-be emerging constitutional and legal protections for LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities suggested that we were turning the corner on long-standing bigotries. 

But the results were underwhelming. The ERA did not pass, the gap between rich and poor widened, antisemitism rebounded, children with mental health conditions were increasingly deprived of equal educational opportunities, greater achievement gaps between white students and students of color emerged in public education, and intended antiracist policies such as determinant sentencing often had the opposite effect.  

And now our country is increasingly polarized and there appear to be even more clouds on the horizon. So, what do we do next – personally, professionally, and in places like Wesleyan? 

 In this seminar, five distinguished Wesleyan alumni— a judge, university educator, national mental health advocate, Jewish chaplain, and senior court manager—reflect on their personal and professional experiences and the challenges they have faced in moving “toward a more perfect union” in a world where not everyone looks like us, thinks like us, or shares our beliefs.  

Panelists: 

• Paul Gionfriddo ’75, former Mayor and Retired President and CEO of Mental Health America 
• Clifton Grandy ’75, Esq., Senior Court Manager, DC Courts
• Susan Moldaw ’75, Author and Chaplain 
• The Hon. John D. Moore, Esq., ’75, Retired Connecticut Superior Court Judge 
• Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, ’75, President Emeritus of Spelman College

Join Josh Radnor (the “I” in How I Met Your Mother), Craig Thomas ’97 (HIMYM co-creator), and Alek Lev ’97 (podcast producer) at a live recording of their new podcast How We Made Your Mother, along with special guest, the co-creator of HIMYM, Carter Bays ’97. Together, they’ll explore the making of the groundbreaking sitcom (whose characters are Wes grads as well) that ran for 208 episodes on CBS from 2005-2014. 

Class dinner locations are subject to change based on registration numbers. 

Class dinner locations:

5th reunion: Mink Dining Wing, Usdan University Center
10th reunion: Center for the Arts, large tent
15th reunion: Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center
20th reunion: McKelvey Green, North College Lawn, black flag tent
25th reunion: McKelvey Green, North College Lawn, red flag tent
30th reunion: Olin Memorial Library, Campbell Reference Center
35th reunion: Patricelli '92 Theater and Zelnick Pavilion
40th reunion: Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street
45th reunion: The Frank Center for Public Affairs, The Forum
50th reunion:  Fayerweather, Beckham Hall
Post-50th reunion: Usdan University Center, Rooms 108 and 110

$65 per person, inclusive of beer and wine reception and dinner. Advance registration and purchase required by May 12. If you are unable to purchase tickets in advance, a very limited number of class dinner tickets may be available, though not guaranteed, for purchase at the Welcome + Giving Center. Tickets will not be available at dinner. 

Wesleyan University Service Award recipients will be honored during each class dinner. THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SERVICE AWARD (WUSA) is presented to volunteers who have given sustained service to Wesleyan University over time or who have given significant service in a specific area such as admission, career resources, fundraising, reunion planning, regional programs, or class notes. 

Celebrate with classmates, graduating seniors, and families - all are welcome! Hear the best pop, rock, and soul music from the ‘70s, '80s, and '90s with a ten-piece all-star band featuring members from both "The Future Heavies" and "The Usual Lebowskis.” The group is led by drummer Andrew Chatfield MALS '19 and includes lead vocalists Alice-Anne, Wendy Berry and Sarah LeMieux, saxophonist and guitarist Dustin Kreidler, bassist Derek Monahan, lead guitarist Aaron Read, keyboard player David Lovelace, percussionist Brendan LeMieux, and Chris Barrett on trumpet and percussion. 
 
The performance will be followed by a DJ set by Mario Torres. 

A cash bar will be available (cash or Venmo). Bring a photo ID. No outside alcohol permitted.