Top Reasons to Attend

This is our growing list of reasons to attend our reunion in June.

• Reasons Submitted by Classmates
• The Planning Committee’s Reasons

Reasons Submitted by Classmates

Most recently submitted reasons listed first.

To enjoy Minnesota when it's not winter, reconnect with old friends and participate in the Thursday night Women's Retreat.
Judith Rhodes ’69

To stay in touch with old friends and classmates.
Shahnaz Yusefzadeh Coyer ’67

I have really enjoyed The Things They Carried — what excellent writing! Am looking forward to hearing Tim O’Brien and how his insights might relate to our current fiasco in Iraq.
Jeanette Schilling Messersmith ’68

See old friends and share adventures. Open to new ones.
Peter Freeman ’67

To connect with old friends.
Carolyn Gallagher ’67

I'll get to visit my beautiful and brilliant granddaughters who live in the Twin Cities!
David P. Jensen ’69

Maybe I can get Macalester to spell my name correctly!
Maggie Merriam Symons Suckow  ’67

Hope to visit with some of the people I haven’t seen in 40 years.
Allan Wimer ’67

I not only get to reconnect with friends from a long-ago past, but I also meet interesting people who I never really knew back then.
Janet Corrington Werness ’69

I think it's a requirement of being on the reunion committee, isn't it? I'm also looking forward to touching base with old friends.
Victoria Arnold Williams ’69

To revisit and get a new perspective on Mac, to see new changes to the campus, to touch base with people I knew at that time and meet a few others I didn't know, to compare experiences since then.
Olivia Oredson Saunders ’69

Renew old friendships and participate in the programs.
Debbie Oyan Dornaus ’69

I want to see all the changes since I left in 1969. I want to reconnect to Mac and the Midwest.
Laura Golderer Raysbrook ’69

I don't know why I want to come to the reunion. It's a mystery to me. One theory I hold is that I'm coming to find a reason. 
Ashley Wilkes ’68

Depends on if I end up moving out of state. At the last two Mac reunions, the people I wanted to see the most did not attend, and — even worse — some people I hung around with didn't even remember who I was.
Dori Alsop Paden ’67

Curiosity.
Judith Ericksen ’68

I may go just to find out if my classmates are as tired as I am of seeing Macalester become such a bundle of leftist rants and political correctness.
Roger S. Peterson ’67

The Planning Committee's Reasons

Reason #12
Enjoy the greats in my life: great food, great friends and great times!

Reason #11
To make a fool of myself.

Reason #10
See if this 60-year-old can still attract the babes/studs.

Reason #9
Conduct my own retirement survey.

Reason #8
To get to know the interesting people my classmates have become.

Reason #7
Connect with other SURVIVORS.

Reason #6
CSI - to return to the scene of the ______________.

Reason #5
Re-live old memories, reflect and move on.

Reason #4
To discover my second career.

Reason #3
To celebrate life — I could be on the other side of the turf next time!

Reason #2
To locate my next "partner."

Reason #1
Just for the "hell of it!"