NOTA BENE:  Pursuant to a report from the Class Nominating Committee of President Tony Cotter, Past President Bill Buchanan, and Special Gifts Co-Chair Bill Powell, the following classmates were elected for five-year terms beginning on July 1, 2009: 

 

President, J. Robert Hillier

Vice-President, Michael B. Grogan

Secretary, Jay M. Siegel

Treasurer, Reade H. Ryan. 

 

Friday, May 29, 2009:

 

8:00 .          Continental Breakfast at Headquarters

  -9:30 A.M

 

8:00 A.M.       Annual Giving Volunteer Thank You Breakfast:  Prospect House

 

8:30 A.M.    '59 Crew Rowing Reunion:  Boathouse

 

9:00 A.M.       Registration Opens

 

9:00 -

   10:30 A.M.  50th REUNION TOUR OF THE CAMPUS (Departs from Prospect House)

 

                     Guided by Jotham Johnson, '64 Director, Princeton Stewardship Program

 

                        Tour includes Wallace Social Science Building, Bendheim Center for Finance,

                             The Frist Campus Center, Woolworth Center for Musical Studies, Andlinger Center

                              for the Humanities, Whitman College, Butler College, Bloomberg Hall, Scully Hall,

                             The Carl Icahn Laboratory, Peter B. Lewis '55 Science Library (by Ghery), and

                              McDonnell Hall, plus the core campus. 

 

9:15 - 10:15    Alumni-Faculty Forums at McCosh and elsewhere (See below)

 

10:30 - 11:30   Alumni-Faculty Forums at McCosh and elsewhere (See below)

 

11:00 - 4:30     William C. Campbell '45 Golf Tournament

 

11:00 -           CLASS OF 1959 MEMORIAL SERVICE:  UNIVERSITY CHAPEL 

  11:45 A.M.

                          Kent Smith, Tom Kerr, Oz Mockridge, Elihu Inselbuch, Saul Singer

 

12:00 Noon     CLASS OF 1959 NASSAU HALL PLAQUE AND IVY DEDICATION

                      Memorializing the 50th Reunion

 

12:30 P.M.      CANNON GREEN CLAY PIPE CEREMONY REENACTMENT

 

12:45 -           Lunch at the Headquarters Tent

   1:45 P.M.

 

2:00 P.M.        Open Tennis Play at Lenz Tennis Center

 

2:30 -             Alumni- Faculty Forums (See below)

    3:30 P.M.

 

2:30 - 3:30      Open Tennis at Lenz Tennis Center

 

3:30 P.M.         ASSOCIATE CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION

                         In the HQ "Quiet Bar" between Campbell and Holder

 

6:00 P.M.        50TH REUNION RECEPTION (Headquarters Tent)

                         

                  Singing Group:  Nassoons

                      

6:45 - 7:00      Annual Class Meeting and Election of Officers

 

                 

  

7:15 P.M.        50TH REUNION DINNER:  Headquarters Tent 

 

8:30 P.M.        Entertainment:  Those Unforgettable PARTY DOLLS!!!!  

 

 

 

Saturday, May 30, 2009:

 

8:00 -         Continental Breakfast at Headquarters

    9:30 A.M.

 

8:30 A.M.      Class of 1959 Fellowship Fund Board of Trustees Meeting

                 At Headquarters:  Classmates welcome to attend

 

9:00 A.M.   Registration Opens

 

9:15 -          Alumni Faculty Forums at McCosh and elsewhere (See below)

    10:15

 

!0:30 -           A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT SHIRLEY M. TILGHMAN

    11:30               Alexander Hall

 

10:30 -         Alumni Faculty Forums at McCosh and elsewhere (See below)

 

11:50 A.M.     CLASS PICTURE, Blair Arch steps

 

12:00 -           Lunch at HQ Blair/Campbell/Joline

     1:15  P.M.

 

2:00 P.M.       THE ONE AND ONLY P-RADE !!

 

6:00 P.M.       RECEPTION  at the Headquarters Tent

                       

6:30 P.M.        Singing Group: Shere Kahn

 

7:00 P.M.       50TH REUNION CLOSING DINNER

 

8:15 P.M.       Entertainment:  DJ Meredith Bostwick

 

8:00 P.M.       University Orchestra Concert at Finney Campbell Field

 

9:15 -            FIREWORKS!!  Finney Campbell Field

   9:45 P.M.

 

Sunday, May 31, 2009:

 

8:30             Farewell Brunch (The Graduate College)

    10:30 A.M.

 

10:00 A.M.     Religious Service, Princeton Chapel

 

                       Kent Clarke Smith '59, Homilist

 

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ALUMNI-FACULTY FORUMS

2009 Reunions Weekend May 2009 1 Office of the Alumni Association http://alumni.princeton.edu/ updated 2/24/2009

 

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 9:15 a.m.

 

Forum: Can the Profit Motive Coexist with the Hippocratic Oath? Commercialization in Medicine

 

Location:  McCosh 10

 

Panelists:

Ed Laws ’59, Physician & Prof. of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Jonca Bull ’74, Deputy Director FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Steve Redd ’79, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control

Dr. Beth Junker ’84, Senior Scientific Director, Bioprocess Research and Development, Merck Research Laboratories

 

Forum: Is there a Post-Racial United States? Race in President Obama's America

Location:  McCosh 46

Panelists:

Kirsten Blair ’84, VP of Development and Outreach, National Fatherhood Initiative

Timothy C. Wu ’84

Eddie Glaude *97, Associate Professor, African American Studies, Princeton University

 

Forum: Failed Banks, Rogue States, and Porous Borders: Security in 2009

Location:  McCosh 50

 

Panelists:

Donald Kirk ’59, Journalist and Author

John Catlett ’64, Director, Radio Free Europe

Tom Nagorski ’84, Senior Producer, ABC News

Charlie Phelps ‘99, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intel, US Dept. of Treasury

 

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 10:30 a.m.

 

Forum: Investing Today: Strategies for Uncertain Times

Location:  McCosh 10

 

Panelists:

Vince Farrell ’69, Chief Investment Officer, Soleil Securities Group

William Walton III ‘74, Co-Founder, Managing Member, Rockpoint Group, LLC

Dwight Anderson '89, former President of Ospraie Management LLC

Brian Biegen ’04, Financial Advisor, Citi-Smith Barney

 

Forum: Change We Can Believe In? An Obama Report Card

Location:  McCosh 50

 

Lawrence S. Lewin ’59, Executive Consultant

James Leach ’64, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Bill Frist ’74

John Peter (JP) Sarbanes ’84, U.S. Congressman, Maryland

George Will *68, Journalist/Owner, GFW, Inc.

 

Forum: High Culture: Maintaining Relevance in the 21st Century

Location:  McCormick 101

 

Win Rutherfurd ’64, Attorney, White & Case LLP

Blair Effron ’84, Partner, Centerview Partners

Sarah Meister ’94, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Department of Photography

Larry Goldman *69 *76, President & CEO, New Jersey Performing Arts Center

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2:30 p.m.

 

Forum: Journalism in the Age of New Media

Panelists:

Cheryl Gould ’74, Senior Vice President, NBC News

Sandra Sobieraj Westfall ’89, Washington Bureau Chief and National Political Correspondent, PEOPLE Magazine

Rob Kutner ’94, Writer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Dan Grech ’99, Americas Reporter, Marketplace

Andrew Romano ’04, Senior Writer, Newsweek

 

Forum: America and the Global Economy: Who's on Top in the 21st Century?

Panelists:

Ginny Kamsky ’74, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Kamsky Associates, Inc.

Shara L. Aranoff ’84, Chairman, United States International Trade Commission

Kimberly Taggart ’04, Goldman Sachs International

 

Forum: The Changing Landscape of American Higher Education

Location:

McCormick 101

Panelists:

Herman Belz ’59, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Maryland and Academic Director James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

Jeff von Arx ’69, President, Fairfield University

Doug Lederman ’84, Co-founder and Editor, Inside Higher Ed

Tracy Fitzsimmons ’89, President, Shenandoah University

Ann Kirschner *78, University Dean, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 9:15 a.m.

 

Forum: Change and a Complex Continent: The Africa Conundrum

Panelists:

Jim Panos ’64, Foreign Service Officer, Department of State

George Hritz ’69, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, LLP

William Levine ’79, Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Brink Lindsey ’84, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute

Katherine Marshall *69, Senior Fellow/Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Government Department

 

Forum: The Bailouts: A Status Report

Panelists:

Craig Drill ’64, President, Craig Drill Capital

Henry Payne ’84, Editorial Cartoonist, The Detroit News

 

Forum: Who Owns Your Data? Digital Technology and Public Policy

Moderator:

Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs. Director, Center of Information Technology Policy

Panelists:

Catherine Lyman ’84, Director, Information Engineering, NetApp Inc.

Rishi Jaitly ’04, Senior Policy Analyst, Google India

Robert Kahn *64, Chairman, President & CEO, Corp. for National Research Initiatives

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 10:30 a.m.

 

Forum: Service in the Obama Era: Innovations in Volunteerism

Panelists:

George Rupp ’64, President, International Rescue Committee

Marc Miller ’69, Chair, Alumni Council Committee on Community Service

Forum: Should Athletes be Role Models?

Panelists:

Mark Shapiro ’89, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Cleveland Indians

Keith Elias ’94, former football player

Ann Rodriguez ’99

Juan Valdivieso ’04

 

Forum: Wall Street, K Street, and the New Regulatory Era

Panelists:

Steve Friedman ’59, President, Pace University

Gerry Parsky ’64, Chairman of the Board, Aurora Capital Group

John Stossel ’69, Writer, ABC News

Beth Wilkinson ‘84

Nancy Swift ’89, Head of Compliance, Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management -- Americas