We were heading towards the reunions and graduation, but first I met with Dennis Bortolus who is working with Kris on the PeopleSoft upgrade and then several days later I met with Mansour Shayegan of Electrical Engineering and before the main events started, Elizabeth Smolinski stopped by with her baby.

But, of course, this was all preparatory to reunions and on Friday afternoon Amv and Sarah were on the couch and then Amv was posing in the kitchen as Ben and Jane relaxed as did Sarah and Ed before I took these self portraits and this shot of Suzanne as Jeff arrived bearing remarkable goods from Hawaii so that we could begin our journey to the triangle show so that Willie Figgins could show us where to park and Lydia Osborn and Imani Joseph of Alumni Affairs before heading to McCarter where Ben posed with Amv and we met Lucy and the Szabo's before I ran into Lars Graf '87 and then after the show, Jane posed with Kelvin Dinkins '09. On our way around reunions, we ran into Rik Aspinall '06 and Julia Stefanczyk '06

Saturday morning began as Ed and Amv emerged to see the pastries that Ben and Suzanne had brought after which Eve Glazer '06, Rik Aspinall '06 and Julia Stefanczyk '06 rose and all headed out in their own directions. On our way to the PRade, we ran into Leslie and Chip Dobbs-Allsop but we still arrived in the midst of the class of 1982 before 1925 arrived with the man with the old guard cane followed by 1930 and then the 75th reunion of the class of 1932 which was out in force followed by 1934

1935 and then in the distance we saw 1936 approaching with Jane carrying the sign as the class went by and made way for 1937 who were aged to perfection as they returned for their 70th reunion in good spirits before 1938 arrived followed by 1939

1940 with some old alums walking and others riding before 1941 appeared

followed by 1942 at which point we moved so that we were across from Amv and Sarah and were able to get a good picture of Amv's sign and view the class of 2006 through the class of 1942 which kept coming with signs and music until the classes of 1943 1944 1945 and 1946 gave way to the class of 1947 which was watched by the class of 2006 as it passed

with its signs as the last member noted Amv's sign as the classes of 1948 1949 1950 and 1951 prepared us for the class of 1952

which gave way to the following classes of 1953 1954 1955 and 1956 before the 50th reunion class of 1957 appeared with the unicyclist and the band that we recorded as they marched on and we took the occasional movie before the final banner the final movie and the walking duck told us it was time for the classes of 1958 1959 1960 and 1961 with our favorite 1961 sign as the 45th reunion class of 1962 arrived with old car classmates and signs before giving way to 1963 1964 1965 1966 and 1967 where the class marched

before 1968 came complete with old car followed by 1969 1970 with the revolutionary statesman 1971 as Sarah and Ed came across the street 1972 1973 1974 1975 which wasn't carried well 1976 1977 with this golf cart as Jane appeared then 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 replaced by the grad alumni 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 led by horses and a cowboy before Jeff arrived and horses ended the class giving way to 1993 and 1994 where we saw Raj Vinnakota and 1995 and 1996 where we saw Beth Lind and 1997 with its array of vehicles followed by classmates with elegant dress and classmates with children before their final sign gave rise to 1998 1999 with the beer head 2000 2001 2002 where I missed a picture but made a movie as a car and then Meredith passed by and then the 5th reunion class ended and it was time for 2003 2004 2005 where Sarah saw Vanessa and the fish head went by before 2004 revisited and then 2005 came back tossing mini-frisbees before 2006 where we saw Rick and Julia and others before the band appeared to escort in the class of 2007 who were an excited lot as were we because the PRade was over but we walked up the hill to see the remains of the PRade

That night we captured these fireworks photos

before we met Tony and Emily Klockenbrink and then took more fireworks pictures

before Ben and Suzanne posed and then more fireworks

before Sarah and Ed reappeared.

All of this inspired us to go to the 40th reunion tent where Suzanne had her drink Ben watched and we recorded the dance floor before Dubby and Susan Wynne posed and then I posed with Dubby and we ran into Kim Ritrievi and her friend.

There were some family pictures of Ed, Sarah and Suzanne Sarah and Suzanne Ben and Ben and Suzanne (though Ben tried to hide) before we saw Caroline Clancy and then Sarah and Ben posed before we bid farewell to Seva and to Eve and her friend and called it a night.