Reasons to Attend Your 40th Reunion at Wells

25 March 2008

Greetings from your Class of ’68 reunion chairs. We’ve had a little trouble getting it together ourselves — using email to make phone dates that were confounded by the vagaries of our lives. But here we are, ready to go, and to do whatever we can to encourage you to join us in —

OUR 40^TH REUNION

(We know. You think we’re talking about some other class. But this really does mean all of US.)

Reunion weekend is May 29 – June 1

Those of you who have been with us for other reunions will remember the unique combination of revisiting the past while making and renewing connections firmly in the present. Those of you who wanted to be there and were not able to: here’s your chance. And for those of you who can’t quite wrap your minds around making the trip to Aurora, here are some points to consider:

• Feeling swamped? Time away could do you a world of good. And Aurora is exquisite in May.

• We laugh a lot when we get together, and laughter has aerobic benefits.

• You will be fed really good food all weekend and not have to wash a single dish.

• The networking possibilities are considerable.

• Almost everyone you see will smile at you.

• Don’t worry about remembering names; we wear name tags.

• No one cares if you’ve gained weight.

• Pajama parties are not just for ‘tweens.

• Everyone is as curious about you as you are about the rest of us.

• No one else is perfect, either.

• We need each other.

• A serious note: One of the most moving aspects of the reunion experience is finding deep support and acceptance among Wells friends and acquaintances. We can both vouch for how often this has happened. Besides being a lot of fun, reunion can be transformative.

• You should experience for yourselves the positive energy at the college — and the positive energy of our classmates.

We’re setting up a contact tree so that each of you will be contacted by someone you know, encouraging you to be there for all or part of the weekend. Also, we have leaped into the 21^st century and have a class blog. The address is: http://wellscollege1968.wordpress.com/. You can go to that address and read and comment on the posts; if you want to post messages yourself you need to contact Carroll (see below), who is the blog administrator. She will provide you with easy instructions for registering as a user. Photos are encouraged on the blog, so please contribute your favorite current or historical pictures.

Hope to see hordes of you! — we’d love to break our 25^th reunion record of 75 attendees. Please call or write with any questions or concerns. See you soon.

Rhea & Carroll

Rhea Hirshman • 132 Lenox Street • New Haven, CT 06513 • 203.466.6263 (h + o) • rheahirshman@mac.com

Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson • 131 Hoffman Avenue • Morgantown, WV 26505 • 304.598.0042 (h)
304.293.0308 (o) • cwilkins@wvu.edu

Wells College Alumnae Office • 315.364.3221 • alumnae@wells.edu • www.wells.edu (click on Alumnae Association link for updated Reunion info)

A request: Please send both of us your updated contact info, including email addresses. Also please send contact info for classmates who may have been out of touch. Thanks.

Reunion Information

http://www.wells.edu/lconnect/reunion.htm

Please click on this link if you want the latest news from Wells about reunion planning! But first it looks like you’ll have to copy and paste the link into your browser.

Hello Classmates!

Tonight I am practicing posting on our reunion blog for the fun of it. I have been exploring various features of wordpress.com. Here are just a few things I’ve discovered. Once you have set up a username and password at wordpress.com, I encourage you to look around the site, and our blog too.  There’s some interesting material to read at wordpress.com There isn’t much at our site yet because it is just on the brink of its launch.

At the general site if you are interested, explore the faq’s, the information about usernames, the various statuses of posts, the story behind wordpress.com, and/or the meaning and uses of tags. (They are just subject categories that search engines will hit as they search on the open web.) As you get used to this method of communication, be sure to add tags to your posts before you publish so others interested in the subjects you have discussed can also find your message.

Rhea is preparing an email message about this blog to everyone for whom we have a working address . It is definitely a work in progress so I hope you will explore with us.

I just wanted to drop by this virtual space and say hello on this Monday night. I send greetings to anyone who might be a Wells’68 classmate, or a surfer interested in college reunions,(especially those for women’s colleges,) or someone doing research on new uses of web 2.0 software for social communication.

When you look at out site you’ll see that you can log in at meta, and then choose to write. You can just begin to type as I have. When are you are done writing you can scroll down and save, or go ahead and publish. That’s what I am going to do right now.

Best to all-

Carroll

This Is It! Our 40th Reunion

Wells College, Class of 1968: Look out, we’re getting back together. When? May 29-June 1, 2008! Where? Aurora, NY, of course, where else? Mark your calendars now; call your friends; set up connections; reach out to classmates you have always wondered about; volunteer to help us.

This cyberspace place is ours to use to plan, post old photos, post new photos, exchange news, be creative. Just build on this beginning……