I’ll try to post updates over the weekend as time allows…..

Here’s a selected few responses!  You’ve read our minds!  These are the issues we’ve been thinking about too!!  So how about some further discussion here….leave a comment…we’ll respond.

• I have attended all the reunions for the last 30 years and they have always been great. I look forward especially to seeing the group of architects when we gather normally at Bob Boehleke’s home – also the gathering at Chi Phi is normally something I want to attend. But the Bailey Hall Cornelliana nite is also a must do. I always participate in the run and plan to again.
• Have a stimulating speaker, panel, or some such just for our class, probably on Friday when there is less competition from University events.
• Same as the past reunions.
• Have talks by outstanding faculty on their views of the world or their best experience at Cornell.
• keep reminding classmates until they give you a definite answer, including myself
• don’t overwhelm us with surveys!
• I’ll have to think on that a bit.
• Please be sure there are quiet dorm rooms, esp for those of us who are single. Please be sure activities truly aim at singles’ as well as couples’ and families’ participation and enjoyment–really. Please do not skimp on activities and attitudes focusing on your intellectual, as opposed to entrepreneurial or sports-oriented, classmates—those of us whose social lives centered on the (then-classical-music-only) Music Room, on math and philosophy and physics, or on intellectually stimulating discussions or creative arts, rather than on frats/sororities/”Ivy”sports/partying. Thanks.
• Simply replicate the fabulous arrangements that have always been thought of and carried out for our previous reunions!
• Air conditioned accomodations and meeting locations. Get a great turnout for our 50th.
• Building in lots of visiting time
• Order up good weather!!
• Maintaining our health so we can make it!
• Get everyone eligible to come!
• Be there
• How can I get in touch with housing for the dorms (Kay, Court, Bauer)? How much is the Reunion package?
• You are doing a great job keeping us up to date and interested.Thank-you
• Good accomodations, Good (low) prices, Good speakers, Good food
• Encourage as many as possible to contribute to the 50th class yearbook.
• Air-conditioned housing would be great as would providing most meals.
• Have a golf tournament, and a dixieland band.
• 1. Don’t pack in too many scheduled class activities; allow time for casual gatherings. Seeing friends is the best part. 2. Hoping for good bus schedules and allowance for time to get from one venue to the next.
• Crowd control. All I remember of my husband’s 50th was endlessly standing in endless lines.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t responded yet, please do so!  It’s not a commitment; just will help us budget/plan/and do other good things.  You can start right here by clicking on this link. 

http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/cornelliana/songs/

So let’s start: What makes a good fiftieth reunion?  Is it the setting, the parties, the dinner, how you look, how we look, the chance to sit and chat?  What should we emphasize?