An all-new, all-alumni reunion weekend is set for June 2-4, 2017. Several other new reunion formats will premiere in the coming year, as well.
If you haven’t been back to campus in a while, this is the time. Longwood reunions are getting a big makeover this year.
The Office of Alumni and Career Services is planning entertainment, lectures, mini-reunions for campus organizations and decade-specific dinners for the revamped reunions, which will kick off with an all-alumni event scheduled for the weekend of June 2-4, 2017.
“This will be a transformative event for Longwood,” said Ryan Catherwood, assistant vice president for alumni relations and career services.
The Mega Reunion Weekend is open to all alumni but geared specifically to alumni celebrating their “major” fifth through 50th reunions (marked at five-year intervals). The first Mega Reunion Weekend will be anchored by reunions for 10 classes whose graduation years end in “2” or “7,” from 1967 to 2012, as well as the classes of 1971 and 1976, who missed celebrating their 40th and 45th reunions this fall. If you’d like to help with planning, please contact the Office of Alumni and Career Services at reunion@longwood.edu.
“This approach will enable us to engage more alumni in a celebratory weekend that will include fireworks, bands, alumni color wars and faculty talks,” said Nicole Perkins, associate director of campus events.
What I really want to see happen is for it to become deeply embedded in the culture here for alumni of all ages to return regularly to campus—every five years at the least, and as often as they can in between.
W. TAYLOR REVELEY IV, PRESIDENT
In addition to the Mega Reunion Weekend, Longwood is planning two fall reunions targeting specific groups of alumni, beginning in 2017:
• The Joan of Arc Celebration is for all alums who have already celebrated their 50th reunion.
• Recent alumni will be invited back during Oktoberfest weekend.
“There are so many wonderful things that spring from Longwood alumni staying connected with one another and with the campus,” said President W. Taylor Reveley IV. A great reunions experience is an important part of that, and the goal with these changes is to upgrade that experience. What I really want to see happen is for it to become deeply embedded in the culture here for alumni of all ages to return regularly to campus—every five years at the least, and as often as they can in between.”
Registration for Mega Reunion Weekend will begin Feb. 20, 2017. For more information, visit www.longwood.edu/alumni.
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