{"id":825,"date":"2011-06-03T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T04:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=825"},"modified":"2011-06-03T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T04:47:24","slug":"alumni-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/alumni-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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Alumni have always been an important constituency of the Notre Dame family.\u00a0 They often return home to their Alma Mater independently and as part of organized groups.\u00a0 The first weekend in June has been designated as Alumni Reunion weekend<\/a>, where Notre Dame welcomes back all her students, particularly those who celebrate their anniversaries on the fives and tens.<\/p>\n

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Alumni group (including many faculty members), c1880s. Includes Rev. Edward Sorin, Arthur Stace, William Ivers, Borzon (?), James (Jimmy) Edwards, Joseph Lyons, Thomas E. Walsh, Peter Cooney, Patrick Colovin, O’Connell, Kelly, Timothy Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Society of the Associated Alumni first organized in 1868 and held many Reunions into the 1870s, but it faded near the turn of the century.\u00a0 In 1908, University President Rev. John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, sent invitations to all Alumni to return to their Alma Mater for Commencement, and thus reinstating the tradition of the annual Alumni Reunion.<\/p>\n

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Scholastic Alumni Issue, vol. 42, page 19: Alumni Reunion group posed on Main Building front steps, June 17, 1908. Scholastic lists all the returnees on a following page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Alumni ribbon featuring an engraving on the new Main Building, 06\/20\/1888<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Notre Dame Alumnus Class of 1910 Ribbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Activities for this year’s Reunion will be similar to those in the past — meeting up with old friends and professors and their families, attending Masses and Class banquets, and ambling about an ever-changing campus.<\/p>\n

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Alumni Reunion – A group of alumni at a refreshment station outside of Howard Hall, c1960s-1970s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Class of 1917 Scenes from Alumni Reunion, 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Alumni walking around campus near the Hesburgh Library, which is under construction and does not have the Word of Life mural, June 1963<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Alumni Reunion – “Still Crazy after All These Years,” including Suzzie and Jack McCabe and Paul Fox, 1989<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Sources:
\nScholastic
\n<\/em>CLYS 4\/05<\/a>
\nOATH 28\/<\/a>
\nGMLS 7\/01<\/a>
\nGNDL 19\/03<\/a>
\nGNDL 34\/33<\/a>
\nGNDL 34\/49<\/a>
\nGPUB 11\/59<\/a>
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Alumni have always been an important constituency of the Notre Dame family.\u00a0 They often return home to their Alma Mater independently and as part of organized groups.\u00a0 The first weekend in June has been designated as Alumni Reunion weekend, where Notre Dame welcomes back all her students, particularly those who celebrate their anniversaries on the … Continue reading “Alumni Reunion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,32,63,78],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-alumni","tag-events","tag-reunions","tag-traditions"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 17:25:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}