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Our 45th Reunion *** REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN *** *** Reunions 2024 begins in 33 days *** See the Reunions page for P-rade attire, Saturday Lunch RSVP, and other infoMay 23-26, 2024
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*** REUNION REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ***
*** REUNION REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ***
Upcoming Events
For the full Calendar, go to the Events page. Priority Items
Thu, May 23, 2024 - Sun, May 26, 2024 -- All Day Event
Reunions 2024 - Our 45th! Our theme is "Family Classics." We are intentionally building on our popular (and award winning) "We are Family" 40th Reunion theme, and riffing on our wonderfully drawn '79 Family logo, by '79er Phil Witte.
We will be posting additional details as we get closer, so check back often - monitor the 45th Reunion Page ([Link]… See the Calendar for details & to RSVP
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Reunions 2024 - Our 45th!
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - Sun, May 26, 2024 -- All Day Event
Reunions 2024 - Our 45th! Our theme is "Family Classics." We are intentionally building on our popular (and award winning) "We are Family" 40th Reunion theme, and riffing on our wonderfully drawn '79 Family logo, by '79er Phil Witte.
We will be posting additional details as we get closer, so check back often - monitor the 45th Reunion Page ([Link]).
Registration is open! We begin Thursday morning with our Community Service Project, so come early! (Details are on the Reunion Page.)See the Calendar for details & to RSVP.
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Bilbo Is Dead: a special request from Adam -- April 15, 2024 Adam Gussow - Newsletters - Author/Writer As many of you know, I have several other lives--as a professor at Ole Miss, as a happily-married man and the father of a Mississippi-born son, as an aging but still feisty competitive distance runner. For the most part I've kept my private life private, even as I've shared my life as a blues harmonica player and teacher quite openly with …
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Bilbo Is Dead: a special request from Adam
Bilbo Is Dead: a special request from Adam -- April 15, 2024 Adam Gussow - Newsletters - Author/Writer As many of you know, I have several other lives--as a professor at Ole Miss, as a happily-married man and the father of a Mississippi-born son, as an aging but still feisty competitive distance runner. For the most part I've kept my private life private, even as I've shared my life as a blues harmonica player and teacher quite openly with you on YouTube and through these newsletters. Link
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Pranksters and Proctors -- April 13, 2024 Raphael Semmes - Letters - Author/Writer Letter to the Editor of PAW describing an incident in early 1976 wherein a 'stodgy old portrait' was removed from Commons and reappeared outside their room. [See also this PAW Article about Rocky's prolific correspondence, from 2012: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/tiger-week-rocky-semmes-79] Link
I’m Painting the Experience of a Moment -- April 13, 2024 Constance Hale Ganahl - Articles - Author/Writer Mary Weatherford ’84 never fails to surprise, I think, as I watch her on stage.
She is joined by artist Suzanne Jackson, collector Komal Shah, and a couple of curators for an event in May celebrating female artists at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Weatherford’s answers to questions are eclectic, ranging from the scientific (“Neon…
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I’m Painting the Experience of a Moment
I’m Painting the Experience of a Moment -- April 13, 2024 Constance Hale Ganahl - Articles - Author/Writer Mary Weatherford ’84 never fails to surprise, I think, as I watch her on stage.
She is joined by artist Suzanne Jackson, collector Komal Shah, and a couple of curators for an event in May celebrating female artists at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Weatherford’s answers to questions are eclectic, ranging from the scientific (“Neon and argon are on the periodic table, and if you apply electricity, they glow red and blue”), to the political (“The point is agency — to see ourselves as subjects, not as objects”), to the poetic (Trying to make a great painting is like “grabbing for smoke”). Link
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City Guide: Exploring Philly’s Germantown With Valerie Erwin ’79 -- March 8, 2024 Valerie Erwin - Articles - Author/Writer I’ve lived in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood for more than 40 years, so I know the area. I also know food. I learned to cook at 8 years old and spent most of my career in the kitchen — from working as a line cook to owning my own restaurant, Geechee Girl, for 12 years. For those unfamiliar with Philly, leafy Germantown serves as a buf…
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City Guide: Exploring Philly’s Germantown With Valerie Erwin ’79
City Guide: Exploring Philly’s Germantown With Valerie Erwin ’79 -- March 8, 2024 Valerie Erwin - Articles - Author/Writer I’ve lived in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood for more than 40 years, so I know the area. I also know food. I learned to cook at 8 years old and spent most of my career in the kitchen — from working as a line cook to owning my own restaurant, Geechee Girl, for 12 years. For those unfamiliar with Philly, leafy Germantown serves as a buffer between hardscrabble Nicetown, to the south, and upscale Mount Airy, to the north. Farther north lies even tonier Chestnut Hill. The entire distance is about four miles, but in Philadelphia, that’s a whole lot of neighborhood. Outside of the usual touristy spots like the Liberty Bell, here are a few unusual stops I’d recommend for alums who visit the City of Brotherly Love. [PAW March 2024] Link
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Guest Essay: Princeton Must Lead in Making DEI Reforms -- March 8, 2024 Leslie Spencer - Articles - Author/Writer The vice-chair of Princetonians for Free Speech argues that now is not a time for President Eisgruber to defend the status quo. On Jan. 18, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 released his “State of the University” letter entitled “Excellence, Inclusivity, and Free Speech.” The core of his remarks defended the course that Princeton has st…
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Guest Essay: Princeton Must Lead in Making DEI Reforms
Guest Essay: Princeton Must Lead in Making DEI Reforms -- March 8, 2024 Leslie Spencer - Articles - Author/Writer The vice-chair of Princetonians for Free Speech argues that now is not a time for President Eisgruber to defend the status quo. On Jan. 18, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 released his “State of the University” letter entitled “Excellence, Inclusivity, and Free Speech.” The core of his remarks defended the course that Princeton has steered in pursuit of excellence and ever-increasing inclusivity through many decades and into these turbulent times. [PAW March 2024] Link
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Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing -- March 8, 2024 Constance Hale Ganahl - Articles - Author/Writer Hale '79 teaches writers about verbs: In this writing handbook, Hale aims to help readers make sentences that are as “enticing, graceful, sexy, and smooth as the tango.” The book, she writes, poses questions “that have dogged me,” including “How did verbs evolve into their central role in language?” “What does linguistics tell us …
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Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing
Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing -- March 8, 2024 Constance Hale Ganahl - Articles - Author/Writer Hale '79 teaches writers about verbs: In this writing handbook, Hale aims to help readers make sentences that are as “enticing, graceful, sexy, and smooth as the tango.” The book, she writes, poses questions “that have dogged me,” including “How did verbs evolve into their central role in language?” “What does linguistics tell us about the way verbs drive a sentence?” And “What do we really need to know about verbs to write with confidence and panache?” In answering those questions, the book dips into “a little evolution, a little history, a lot of grammar, [and] a little usage.” [PAW March 2024] Link
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Andrew Houck ’00 is making quantum leaps to unlock a metaverse of possibilities -- February 29, 2024 There is an order to Andrew Houck’s office that isn’t apparent to the naked eye. Houck ’00, the Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative, is talking about the state of particles in objects, and how quantum science and engineering open a metaverse of pos…
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Andrew Houck ’00 is making quantum leaps to unlock a metaverse of possibilities
Andrew Houck ’00 is making quantum leaps to unlock a metaverse of possibilities -- February 29, 2024 There is an order to Andrew Houck’s office that isn’t apparent to the naked eye. Houck ’00, the Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative, is talking about the state of particles in objects, and how quantum science and engineering open a metaverse of possibilities. Link
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TigerTalks: Search Fund: An Alternative Path to Entrepreneurship -- February 28, 2024 Moderator: Don Seitz, ’79. A search fund is an investment vehicle in which the entrepreneur (or team) initially raises a small pool of capital from several investors to fund a search (of up to 24 months) for a suitable small business to acquire. Typically, these are usually a family business without a clear succession plan and/or in need of …
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TigerTalks: Search Fund: An Alternative Path to Entrepreneurship
TigerTalks: Search Fund: An Alternative Path to Entrepreneurship -- February 28, 2024 Moderator: Don Seitz, ’79. A search fund is an investment vehicle in which the entrepreneur (or team) initially raises a small pool of capital from several investors to fund a search (of up to 24 months) for a suitable small business to acquire. Typically, these are usually a family business without a clear succession plan and/or in need of fresh capital and leadership to take the company to the next level. Upon identifying the best opportunity, the search fund entrepreneur returns to the original group of investors to raise additional capital to acquire the business and subsequently lead it as the CEO. Unlike traditional private equity, the search fund entrepreneur focuses all efforts on operating this single business, working with its employees, customers, and suppliers to create organic growth and improve the efficiency of internal operations. The higher the return for the investors, the greater the ownership the search fund entrepreneur earns in the shares of the acquired company, aligning incentives between investors and operators better than traditional venture capital or private equity. Link
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Book Talk and Q&A with Simone Schloss '79 and Jeff Fuhrer '79 -- January 26, 2024 Join New York Public Library Business Librarian Simone Schloss '79 online Wednesday February 7 at 12-1:30PM as she hosts a Book Talk and Q&A with classmate Jeff Fuhrer '79, author of 'The Myth That Made Us,' on how false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have broken our economy, and what we can do to fix the system an…
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Book Talk and Q&A with Simone Schloss '79 and Jeff Fuhrer '79
Book Talk and Q&A with Simone Schloss '79 and Jeff Fuhrer '79 -- January 26, 2024 Join New York Public Library Business Librarian Simone Schloss '79 online Wednesday February 7 at 12-1:30PM as she hosts a Book Talk and Q&A with classmate Jeff Fuhrer '79, author of 'The Myth That Made Us,' on how false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have broken our economy, and what we can do to fix the system and provide greater economic equality and improved economic opportunity for all. Jeff is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Foundation Fellow at the Eastern Bank Foundation. He was previously Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Registration required. Link
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Class President Phil Hueber Hosts the Class of '52 Seminar -- on Maria Ressa's Book How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future -- October 25, 2023 Watch Phil, along with classmate Steve Matthews and Bob Jiranek '52, host the Class of '52 Seminar. This is the second time Phil has hosted, and he is now an Honorary Class of '52 Member! Watch the full hour long video at the link listed here. Link
Weezy Sams in the Daily Princetonian Email -- October 1, 2023 At the top of the daily email from The Daily Princetonian is our very own Weezy Sams, in some pretty good company! The article below looks into governance of the University and the history and backgrounds of the administrators. Take note of the section on salaries. Link
Phil Represents the University -- at the inauguration of the new President -- September 15, 2023 Phil writes: Well, this is surreal. I was asked by Princeton University to represent the University at the Inauguration of the new President of Dartmouth College, Sian Leah Beilock. As a Delegate, I will wear PhD Regalia that was given to me by Princeton. It by no means means I've earned a PhD, just that all delegates wear the Regalia! Link
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