Our 30th reunion was the third I’ve attended and by far the best. From what I’m hearing and reading, others agree with my A+ rating. The highlights were the “Hillary (Clinton) and Maddy (Albright) Show” and our class supper, which started with a martini hour and ended with several hours of non-stop dancing. It’s hard to describe the kind of Wellesley bonding that was going on across the dance floor and throughout the weekend. Francine Carl Walker describes the weekend as “spiritually healing.” I, too, felt a spiritual reconnection with the campus that was home for 4 years and with friends I had not seen in 5, 20 and 30 years. As past president, Karen Rozenberg Berman notes, “It seems we are getting better at this reunioning thing as we get older.”

From Jane Desforges:

• So many gifts discovered and unwrapped at our Reunions! A few of my treasures ...the kindness and generosity of a classmate who led us in afternoon Yoga... Peace and Belonging... The midnight walk to Paramecium Pond where quiet reminiscence was surprised by the frogs' spontaneous cello concert... Laughter and Rejuvenation...
• Picking up the yarn and our affection from whenever we dropped it for however long ago.Reconnection.... The warmth of familiar faces... The chance conversation started with the classmate you’ve never met and to be continued through the friendship begun. Ease... Celebration in our ‘74 rowing shell under the fireworks of ‘Float Night.’ So much beauty!
• Candor and reconciliation. Acceptance and compassion.
• Our years at Wellesley and our Wellesley since.
• Singing “and crown thy good with Sisterhood” on Sunday.
• Alumnae Parade…what we were, where we’ll be...present for one another.
• Renewed until the next Reunion to come!

From Mary Katherine McMahon Hawryluk:

I attended the 10th reunion (I think: 5th or 10th). And then I came for the 25th and 30th. What I really enjoyed about the 25th and 30th was the chance not only to connect with friends and acquaintances, but also talk to people I had not known well (or at all). By the time we’ve been out of college more than two decades, we’ve all been through “life” and in a sense may have more in common than we did when we were in college. I enjoyed learning what my fellow alumnae were doing with their lives, what they had actually experienced back in college (often surprising) and what their viewpoints and values were having “looked at life from both sides now” (Boy does that date me!) I look forward to similar experiences at this reunion.
But we all need to wear nametags – in large print .

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