On May 28, to get ready for reunions, I had lunch with Dave Treadwell '89 and then ran into Andrew Ford and a student who were eating at Panera as I came home to talk to the Jefferson person who fixed the toilets to everyone's happiness.

On Saturday, May 29, we woke up and Benjamin decided to stay home and build as Jane joined us for our walk to town where we ran into Noah and Hank Dobin and then David Spergel of the Astrophysics department at Small World. Next we saw my favorite waitress ex- of PJ's and elsewhere who told us tales of living in Firestone Library in the late 60's. As Suzanne made her call, the parade started led by Ray Wadsworth as Jane marveled at the honor guard and the Chen family passed by though they couldn't get Jane to babysit. The patriots and fife and drum corps inspired Jane to get this muffin as more patriots came including this man with a weapon and the bag pipers who passed by ahead of the 1960 Volvo and the 1949 truck who led Uncle Sam and the very old car which led the twirlers and the marching band not to mention the train the girl scouts and the flautists who inspired us to investigate the carts that would take the classes of 1931 and 1925 through the parade as I paused for this self portrait before the Spirit of Princeton and Korean groups passed me by. The mayor's husband was there as were Bob and Wanda Gunning he of the math department and she of the historical society. After watching an emergency vehicle a fire engine and the Burlington City Music Band pass us by, we knew it was time to go home to see what Ben was doing and have a healthy lunch as Claire and Sarah prepared to make their way and Ben waited for Alan to bring Joel to join us at the P-Rade. We said good bye to Jane who was canoeing with her friends and went on to see Erik Sorenson (Chemistry) and his wife, and Steven Sather and Jon and the Ford family also in a second pose before finding this lady who sold Suzanne drinks so that we could feel better when we ran into Brian Kernighan and then this electrician who told us a slightly twisted history of the P-Rade as we watched the new arch and saw the class of 2004 approach. After discussing with these gentleman the greatest joys of reaching a 50th reunion, we headed to the Wawa where the canoeing gang was waiting and where the twins (which is which?) talked about splashing as we saw a car deconstruct and another carry people from Joel's little league game inspiring another self portrait until we got home and the boys could do the computer thing as the older kids rested until the computer thing inspired pizza pick-up so we could look as Lucy got her drink and then eat as we admired Jane's fingers which seemed to inspire Seva and Peter to arrive together as I took a few profiles and then a self portrait and Peter shared his memory as Ben Kaplan arrived to accompany Sarah.

So, we marched by generations starting with the PU students then progressing to the JP students and finally the older generation as we followed the crowd and found our place to sit though self portraits didn't do so well and the fireworks pictures require some study.

We began Sunday May 30, with a walk into town. We ran into the Dimaggio/Mason's and Paul took this picture of us after which I took this picture of them before saying good bye to Suzanne who was on the phone and heading to the baccalaureate. Once there, I ran into Stephen White and Kathy Rohrer and then Pete McDonough and Maureen Nash got ready to pose with JoAnn Mitchell and I replaced my costume for the next day.

That evening, Ben found this cicada and showed it to Suzanne before taking a closeup so that we could head to TGIF for dinner and then see Shrek 2. My drink led to 2 pictures of Sarah one each of Jane and Suzanne and this self portrait though Ben chose to be replaced by the ketchup bottle which was finally lit well as the meals came with my veggie burger and Jane's salad in better light and fries and Ben's grilled cheese and fries and Suzanne's salad not to mention the mud Ben had for dipping at dessert as we cleared the table bit by bit by bit so that Sarah could experiment with pictures for which the flash was not used starting with me then Ben and Suzanne and Jane before I captured her and took some sister pictures none of which had enough light. After a few pictures of Ben with light and without we captured his food did some abstract work and took the ceremonial picture of the waiter and then the girls' feet before calling it a day.

Tuesday, June 1, was the actual day of graduation. I first met the Leydons and JoAnn Mitchell on my way to pick up Kao's so that I could return and take many pictures beginning with Jeremy Adelman and proceeding to Senator Sarbanes and Nan Keohane and Jennifer Bolton then Nancy Malkiel and Dean Krugman and Wes Harris speaking with Robert Moses Jim Sturm and Dubby Wynne before I ran into Pete McDonough and Pablo Eisenberg and posed with Pablo as Sandy Sussman passed by before I went back to capture Ruth Tennen, the valedictorian, between her advisor (Mark Rose) and a PADT winner, Alison Gammie and Ellen Chances and John Cooper and Bill Russel followed by Nancy Malkiel and Ruth Berkelman which led to the actual parade. After the parade, I caught Charles Kao and John Fleming and then ran into this friend from the PriCom en route to the luncheon where I saw Steve Forrest and Gregory Chow before capturing ever growing pictures of Jim Sturm with his parents, his wife and parents, his wife, parents and us and then we were ready to head home. Imagine our surprise when we ran into Sarah and Claire with Amv and her stuff in the back seat.

Eszter Hargittai was nice enough to send along these pictures that actually show me in costume.