All events/activities subject to change
(D) indicates College-sponsored activities
($) Indicates separate charge not included in class reunion fee
Reminder: If you are not planning on staying in a dorm accommodations, please be sure to make your reservations in the Upper Valley as soon as possible.
Thursday, June 9
Overnight at Moosilauke
Reservations are required for those wishing to have dinner and spend the night at the Ravine Lodge. Contact the Lodge directly for costs and to make a reservation.
Call (603) 646-6543 before April, and thereafter (603) 764-5858 from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Eastern Time.
Friday, June 10
Check-in for Reunions and campus housing will be held at central locations on campus. Please review the following timeline to know where to check in upon arrival. At check-in you will receive your Reunion nametag, campus housing assignment and room key (if applicable), and directions to your class tent and parking.
- 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Thompson Arena
- 6–7 p.m. Check-in Closed
- 7–10 p.m. Blunt Alumni Center
8 a.m.–4 p.m. Reunion Exhibit: ’72s at Dartmouth (D)
Rauner Library, Webster Hall
9–10 a.m. Architectural Walking Tour of Campus (D)
10–11 a.m. Dartmouth Today Campus Bus Tour (D)
Take a student-guided bus tour of campus and the Hanover area.
Meet at Class Tent
10 a.m.–1 p.m. Baker Tower Tour (D)
Self-guided visit. Free tickets will be distributed in numbered groups of ten. Groups will take the tour in order of their group number. Each tour will take approximately 10 minutes to ascend. take in the beautiful views, and descend. Each person must be able to navigate many steep steps and a ladder on his/her own.
Meet at Baker Tower Library Information Desk
11 a.m.–5 p.m. Hood Museum Self-Guided Tour (D)
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Class Connections Barbecue with Class of 2022 (D)
Indoor and outdoor seating will be available.
Collis Center Patio
1–3:30 p.m. Class Panel: The Roads We’ve Taken
Hear from classmates about their post-Dartmouth careers and how Dartmouth played a role in shaping their professional life. Speakers include:
- Bill Price on early days at Amazon
- Neal Traven on MLB analytics
- Mark Stitham on life as “The Loon”
Filene-Moore Hall
3:30–4:30 p.m. Professional School Receptions (D)
5–6 p.m. Friends of Bill W. Fellowship
Room 213, Baker Library
6–9 p.m. Reception and Dinner
Maple Street Catering
Baker Lawn
9–11 p.m. Class Socializing
Class Tent
9:30–10:30 p.m. Annual Glee Club Commencement Concert ($) (D)
Spaulding Auditorium
Saturday, June 11
7–8:45 a.m. Full Breakfast
Class of ’53 Commons
9:30–11 a.m. Memorial Service
Wheeler Lawn
10 a.m.–5 p.m. Reunion Exhibit: ’72s at Dartmouth (D)
Rauner Library, Webster Hall
11 a.m.–5 p.m. Hood Museum Self-Guided Tour (D)
Hood Museum of Art
11:15 a.m.–Noon Class Meeting
Gilman Auditorium–Hood Museum of Art
12:15 p.m.–2 p.m. 50th Reunion Luncheon with President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 and Trustees
Alumni Gym
2:30–3:30 p.m. Celebrating the Class of 1972
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the new Irving Institute and announce an exciting class gift in support of the great work that Irving does. Hear from classmate Bill Schlesinger about climate change and how the Irving Institute hopes to combat this global problem.
Filene–Moore
3:45–5 p.m. Women in 1972
Hear from two classmates: Amy Sabrin on her exciting legal career in Washington, DC during the ‘90s, and Debbie Farrington on being a woman on Wall Street in the '70s and '80s.
Filene–Moore
5–6 p.m. Friends of Bill W. Fellowship
Room 213, Baker Library
6:30–7 p.m. Class Reception
Baker Lawn
7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Class of 1972 Gala Banquet
Buddy Teevens, speaker
Hanover Inn catering
Baker Lawn
Rain location, West Gym
9–11 p.m. Class Socializing
Class Tent
Sunday, June 12
7–8:45 a.m. Full Breakfast
Class of ’53 Commons
8:15 a.m. Formation of Commencement Procession (D)
Class members, wives, widows, partners, and friends assemble at Rollins Chapel.
Rollins Chapel
9:30 a.m. Commencement Exercises (D)
Special seating area for ’72 class members, wives, widows, partners, and friends.
Dartmouth Green
1 p.m. Post-Commencement Lunch
Maple Street Catering
Class Tent
Afternoon
- Reunion Row
- Walk/hike around campus
Class-Sponsored Dinner
Blood's Seafood catering
Class Tent
Monday, June 13
7–8:45 a.m. Full Breakfast
’53 Commons
10–11 a.m. Walking Tour of Campus Construction Projects
9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Exchange Student Panel
Screening of Bill Aydelott’s film Early Daughters Of Dartmouth from 9:30–10:25.
Panel to follow film with Exchange Students from 1971 and 1972.
Filene–Moore
Golf outing
Contact Jim Birchall, 205-586-6149, to sign up.
12–1:15 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30–3 p.m. Academic Open Houses
2–3 p.m. Dartmouth College Today Campus Bus Tour
3:30–4:30 p.m. Back to Class: The Future of Cancer Research at Dartmouth (D)
Join us to learn about the cutting-edge cancer research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth from a panel of experts. The panel will be moderated by Steven Leach, MD, Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer. The panelists include Yolanda Sanchez, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology and Associate Director for Basic Sciences, Norris Cotton Cancer Center; Mary Jo Turk, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, O. Ross McIntyre, M.D. Endowed Professor, and Co-Director, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Program at Norris-Cotton Cancer Center; and Brock Christensen, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Community and Family Medicine, and Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology.
Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts
5–6 p.m. Friends of Bill W. Fellowship
Room 213, Baker Library
6–7 p.m. Reception
7–9 p.m. Dinner on your own
9–11 p.m. Socializing with the Class of ‘71
Last Kid Picked – played our 45th Reunion and rocked it!
’71 Class Tent, Moore Plateau
Tuesday, June 14
7 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Full Breakfast
’53 Commons
Dormitory Check Out