th-Year Reunion May 25-29, 2011 Schedule of Events Headquarters Wieland Hall

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1 th-Year Reunion May 25-29, 2011 Schedule of Events Headquarters WEDNESDAY, May p.m. Alumni House Reception Center Open Stop by for registration, schedules of class activities, messages, information on the Amherst area and light refreshments. Alumni House, 75 Churchill Street, (413) :30 p.m. Valentine Dining Hall Open for Dinner $6 for adults; $3 for kids (12 and under) 5 7 p.m. An Evening at the Mead Meet, mingle and renew old friendships amidst Amherst s extraordinary art collection at this wine reception featuring gourmet hors d oeuvres hosted by Director Elizabeth Barker and the museum s curators. Mead Art Museum THURSDAY, May 26 6 a.m. - Amherst College Recreational Facilities 6 p.m. Includes gym, cage, fitness center, squash and racquetball courts; pool open 7-10 am and 2-5 p.m. 10 p.m. Alumni House, 75 Churchill Street, (413) College programs (see Final Reunion Brochure for details). 10:45 a.m. Hitler s Tour: Imagining the Occupation of Paris, We ll always have Paris, Rick says to Ilsa in Casablanca. But, for a while, someone else did. Adolf Hitler visited Paris only once, on June 28, 1940, a scant two weeks after his troops had first occupied it. Like any tourist, he wanted to see the monuments and vistas he had read about for decades. The Fuehrer s tour predicted the complicated four years that were to follow. Ronald C. Rosbottom, professor of French and European Studies and Winifred Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities, will take you stop-by-stop along Hitler s route. Using photographs and film clips, he will explain what the Occupation meant to Parisians and how the Germans themselves felt about it for 1500 nights and days. 1 p.m. Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination Tokyo is the political, cultural and economic center of Japan, the largest urban hub on the planet, holding 35 million people, fully one fifth of Japan s population. The city has continually reinvented itself since its founding over 400 years ago, when a small fishing village became Edo, the castle headquarters of the Tokugawa shoguns. Samuel C. Morse P 14, professor of art and the history of art and Asian languages and civilizations, will focus on portrayals of Tokyo and its reinventions as depicted by print makers, photographers and artists from the mid-nineteenth

2 century to the present day. Many of the images will be included in an exhibition to be held at the Mead Art Museum in the fall of 2012: Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination, planned in conjunction with an Amherst class. 4 p.m. Poet Richard Wilbur 42, P 73, GP 13 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and again in 1989, and the 1987 United States Poet Laureate, Richard Wilbur, John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College, will read from his poems and translations. He will remain after the reading to sign copies of his work. Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall 4 6 p.m. Class Registration/Souvenir Pick Up 5:30 p.m. Cocktails 6 p.m. Dinner Make plans on your own or meet under the tent to join other classmates for dinner on the town 7:30 p.m. Screening of The Da Vinci Code Based on the book by author Dan Brown 86, who will speak on The Da Vinci Code: Publishing, Religion, and Hollywood on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Johnson Chapel. His book Angels and Demons was also made into a film, and a film version of The Lost Symbol is due out in The Da Vinci Code runs for 149 minutes. Presented by the Class of Keefe Campus Center Theater FRIDAY, May 27 6 a.m. - Amherst College Recreational Facilities 6 p.m. Includes gym, cage, fitness center, squash and racquetball courts; pool open 7-10 am and 2-5 pm 11 p.m. Alumni House, 75 Churchill Street, (413) College programs (see Final Reunion Brochure for details). 11 a.m. Unresolved Conflicts in the Balkans: Amherst Alumni and Students Making a Difference - When a genocidal war ended in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1996, Christopher Bragdon 86 traveled there with donated cash in his boots to see how he could help. Today, 15 years later, he is the director of the non-profit organization Bosnia Initiatives for Local Development (BILD), which he and Bosnian colleagues established to help people rebuild their lives and their communities. Amherst College has joined this effort through the Center for Community Engagement, which sends student teachers each summer to one of BILD s programs, the Tuzla Summer Institute, a multiethnic educational program implemented at the Behram-begova medresa in northeastern Bosnia. Chris will discuss the conflict in Bosnia, how the effort to establish lasting peace has evolved since 1996 and how Amherst alums and students are making a difference. Presented by the Class of Lecture Hall 2, Merrill Science Center 12 7 p.m. Class Registration/Souvenir Pick Up 1 p.m. Lessons from the Learning Center Why do some brilliant students struggle so much in a traditional school setting? What can students and teachers do to facilitate learning and understanding? How can confidence be reinforced and developed when success is so difficult?

3 Katey Alexander 86 explores these and other questions as she discusses the lessons she has learned from her years as a teacher and parent of children with learning differences. Presented by the Class of p.m. Learning From YouTube - The first video-book published by the MIT Press (2011), Learning From YouTube thinks critically about what actually happens within new media settings that proclaim to be radically "democratized." Why is what could be a tool for political change used mostly to spoof mainstream media? What happens when we do more and more of our learning online? Pitzer College Media Studies Professor Alexandra Juhasz 86 will give a lively and loud talk about YouTube, digital pedagogy and new forms of online writing. Presented by the Class of Lecture Hall 1, Merrill Science Center 5 p.m. Screening of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Jason Kliot 85 co-produced this documentary, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Based on the best-selling book of the same name, this film examines one of history s greatest business scandals, the 2001 collapse of the Enron Corporation. Jason will be speaking on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 of the Merrill Science Center. Film runs for 110 minutes. Presented by the Class of :30 p.m. Cocktails and appetizers 7 p.m. 25th Reunion Welcome Dinner A South of the Border Fiesta Post-dinner DJ/Dancing SATURDAY, May 28 7:45 a.m. Vinyasa Yoga with Margaret (Truesdell) Hall 89 (wife of Jeff Hall 86) Conway Classroom, Alumni Gymnasium 8 a.m. Fun Run/Walk For those who like to get an early and healthy start to their day, join us at the tent for an informal run/walk through the Bird sanctuary trails and campus a.m. Continental Breakfast catered by Atkins Farms 8 10 a.m. Class Registration/Souvenir Pick Up 8 a.m. Alumni House Reception Center Open 9:30 p.m. Alumni House, 75 Churchill Street, (413) College programs (see Final Reunion Brochure for details) 8 a.m. Recreational Field Events including soccer, volleyball and whiffle ball 5:00 p.m. Field adjacent to Wieland (Headquarters) 9 a.m. The Health Care Challenge Part I: Diagnosis and Treatment In the first of two related sessions on this subject, Hali Hammer, MD 86, Medical Director of SFGH Family Health Center and Urgent Care and professor of Clinical Family Medicine at USCF, and Eric

4 Radin, MD 56, will discuss why health care is so expensive and what is being tried to make it more effective and efficient. Presented by the classes of 1986, 1956, 1961 and Part II will take place at 10 a.m. in the same location. 10 a.m. Good Intentions: Are They Enough? Amherst alumni and current students are marked by a strong desire to make the world a better place, to work effectively and collaboratively on some of the globe s most pressing problems. But good intentions are not enough. Sadly, there are too many stories of how help goes awry, international aid to Haiti simply being the most recent example. Molly Mead, director of the Center for Community Engagement, with Jeff Hall 86 and Michael Ketover 86, will discuss lessons learned about what does and does not work to provide effective help to others. Molly will share highlights from current student perspectives that have emerged over two years of teaching a course at the college called Giving. Jeff will draw from years of experience working in international development as a Peace Corps volunteer and then as a development professional and philanthropist. Michael will tell stories from his work with the Peace Corps, UNICEF and Crisis Corps. Presented by the Class of Johnson Chapel a.m Family Soccer Game Hitchcock Field (adjacent to Wieland/Headquarters) 11 a.m. An Amherst Conversation and Annual Meeting of the Society of the Alumni and the Alumni Council Johnson Chapel 12:15 p.m. Reunion Luncheon on the Valentine Quad Join us for a complimentary luncheon on the Quad. Look for your classmates under the decade signs! Valentine Quad (Rain Site: Valentine Dining Commons) 1:30 p.m. The Da Vinci Code: Publishing, Religion, and Hollywood Dan Brown '86 is the bestselling author of five novels, which have been translated into more than 50 languages around the world. He will speak briefly about book publishing, moviemaking and religion, followed by time for questions from the audience. Presented by the Class of Johnson Chapel 2:30 p.m. A Chamber Music Hour Enjoy selections from opera and musical theater, including works by Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, Sondheim and more. Performers include 1986 classmates Vanessa Adler, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Barber, piano; Carol Chickering Burden, soprano; Peter Clark, baritone; Jonathan Hirsh, violin. Presented by the Class of Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center 2:30 p.m Tennis We have four reserved courts so bring your racquets! If you want to play, please contact Alessandra Bianchi Herman at al_bianchi@hotmail.com and cell :30 p.m Ultimate Frisbee Game Hitchcock Field 3:30 p.m. Activism Across Borders: Working for Social Justice Internationally Susan Banki '91 will discuss Doing No Harm to Harmed Populations refugee advocacy and the ethics and the tensions around it, the difficulty of "objective" research and the potentials and pitfalls of the U.N. Melinda Burrell '91 will offer thoughts on supporting efforts to develop civil society in the Middle East with the accompanying opportunities and dilemmas for the United States. Michael Ketover '86 will discuss international community development through the work of the Peace Corps and UNICEF. Presented by the Classes of 1991 and Lecture Hall 2, Merrill Science Center

5 3:30 p.m Whiffle Ball Game Hitchcock Field 4:30 p.m. A Life in Independent Film Jason Kliot 85, Academy Award-nominated producer of more than 40 feature films by such acclaimed directors as Jim Jarmusch, Miguel Arteta, Brian DePalma, Steven Soderbergh and Todd Solondz, has produced innovative works by first-time filmmakers while championing the distinctive visions of established directors. Kliot has produced a wide variety of films, ranging from auteur-driven projects to successful commercial box-office hits, as well as award-winning theatrical documentaries. He will show clips and share stories about his life as an independent filmmaker and answer questions. Presented by the Class of Lecture Hall 1, Merrill Science Center 4:30 p.m. Amherst College Architecture Past and Present - Join architect Chip von Weise 86, founding principal of von Weise Associates, a Chicago based architecture and design studio, as he discusses the history and architecture of the Amherst campus and takes participants on a walking tour of the main quadrangle. Presented by the Class of Meet in the Main Quad, by Johnson Chapel 4 6 p.m. Class Registration/Souvenir Pick Up 5:30 p.m. Cocktails and appetizers 6:30 p.m. Kids dinner (10 and under) Lobby 6:45 p.m. Class Photo at Headquarters 7:30 p.m. 25th Reunion Banquet Southeast Asian Cuisine by Pengyew Catering ; resort casual attire Post Dinner The Floyd Patterson Band SUNDAY, May a.m. Continental breakfast catered by Atkins Farms Noon Alumni House, 75 Churchill Street, (413) a.m. Service of Remembrance and Community Please join us for an ecumenical service to remember the lives of those alumni we have lost this year. Rabbi Hara Person '86, P'14, and Rev. Edward Dibble '56, will officiate. War Memorial, Memorial Hill (Rain Site: Johnson Chapel)