7:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Dining hall breakfast
Pay $4 at the door.
Dana dining hall
9:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
President's reception for alumni, parents, faculty, and students
Complimentary continental breakfast
Atrium, Diamond Building
9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration and information desk open
Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center
9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
State of the College conversation with President William D. Adams
All welcome
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Museum open
10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
REM - Third Annual Craft Fair
The community organization REM will hold its third annual Craft Fair and Soup Fest at Champions Fitness Club in Elm Plaza on Upper Main Street in Waterville. REM organizers are expecting to have over 60 carefully selected Maine artisans this year. They will also be offering an expanded selection of soups and will be raffling items from some of the crafters.Admission is free, and food and drink will be for sale.For more information, call REM at 873-4444 or visit www.rem1.org.
Champions Fitness Club in Elm Plaza on Upper Main Street
10:00 a.m.
Campus tour
Tour lasts about an hour and is led by a student tour guide.
Tour departs from and returns to the Lunder House
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Family Homecoming Weekend lunch
Tickets must be purchased in advance, $8.
Roberts dining hall
10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Life outside the Classroom: Navigating New Territory
As parents travel the path with their first-year students, we would like to provide additional stepping stones and resources for student success. Please join an informative panel for tips and tidbits.
Room 122, Diamond Building
11:00 a.m.
Unveiling of the Benjamin Butler Portrait
Gibson Professor of History Elizabeth D. Leonard will speak about Colby alumnus General Benjamin F. Butler, Class of 1838, nicknamed "Beast" Butler during the Civil War. The occasion is the unveiling of the restored portrait of Butler during Colby's bicentennial year. The event is part of the History Department Speakers Series.
Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center
11:00 a.m.
Women's Volleyball vs. Tufts
Wadsworth Gymnasium, Harold Alfond Athletic Center
11:00 a.m.
Women's Soccer vs. Bowdoin
Colby Soccer Field
11:00 a.m.
Field Hockey vs. Bowdoin
Bill Alfond Field
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Family Homecoming Weekend lunch
Tickets must be purchased in advance, $8.
Dana dining hall
11:00 a.m.-noon
Opportunities to study off campus
Panel discussion presented by the Office of Off-Campus Studies
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
11:00 a.m.
Campus tour
Tour lasts about an hour and is led by a student tour guide.
Tour departs from and returns to the Lunder House
11:00 a.m.-noon
Opportunities to study off campus
Panel discussion presented by the Office of Off-Campus studies
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
11:00 a.m.
Woodsmen's Team demo
Woodsmen Field, Washington Street across from Johnson Pond
11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Meet Daniel Shea-New Director of Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement; Professor of Government
Find out what's new with the Goldfarb Center
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Noon
Golf team tournament, Sid Farr Invitational
Waterville Country Club
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Tours of Miller Library Special Collections
Special Collections is the home for Colby's rare books, literary manuscripts and college archives. Please stop by for a tour of our reading rooms and displays of intriguing items from our literary and Colbiana collections!
Special Collections, Miller Library
1:00 p.m.
Men's Football vs. Wesleyan
Seaverns Football Field, Harold Alfond Stadium
1:30 p.m.
Men's Soccer vs. Bowdoin
Colby Soccer Field
2:00 p.m.
Open Master Class with Karen Oberlin
NYC cabaret sensation Karen Oberlin and noted accompanist Jon Weber share their expertise with up and coming Colby vocalists. The master class is free and open to the general public.Come and see and hear these musical masters at work.
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Miller Library tower tours
(weather permitting)
Tours depart from the front steps of Miller Library
(Last tour starts at 4:45 p.m.)
3:30-5:00 p.m.
East Asian Studies Department reception for parents
Refreshments will be served.
Lovejoy 423
4:00 p.m.
Chorale and Collegium Chamber Singers performance
Lorimer Chapel
4:00 p.m.
Economics, Government, History, and International Studies, reception
Atrium, Diamond Building
4:00 p.m.
Colby Improv performance
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Religious studies reception
Faculty lounge, second floor, Lovejoy Building4:30-5:30 p.m.
English Department reception
Room 220, Miller Library
5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Family Homecoming Weekend buffet dinner
Pay $8 at the door.
Dana dining hall
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Colby Alumni Family Legacy Dinner (by invitation only)
Parker-Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center
7:30 p.m.
Colby on Stage
Colby's student performance clubs take over Strider Theater for a special Family Homecoming Weekend event. Now in its fourth year (it's a tradition!), this high-energy variety show features performances from a variety of student clubs, a preview of coming attractions from the Theater and Dance Department's mainstage season and the popular First Year Dance featuring the talents of the class of '16.
Strider Theater
7:30 p.m.
Colby Séance
Colby Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan invites you to a Halloween get-together for Colby alumni and friends. She will read a few ghost stories and sing a song or two. She will also bringing a few friends along the way to put a chill up your spine! Jenny has been a professor of English at Colby since 1988 and is the author of the bestselling memoirShe's Not There, some of which is set on the Colby campus. A four-time guest of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jenny also has been a guest on Larry King Live, TODAY with Katie Couric, and a Barbara Walters special, and she has been the subject of documentaries on CBS News' 48 Hours Mystery and the History Channel. Jenny's most recent book, Falcon Quinn young adult series, books about a group of Frankensteins, mummies, angels and chupakabras, and what it means to be a "monster."
Lorimer Chapel
9:00 p.m.
A New York State of Mind
Karen Oberlin, jazz-pop singer; Jon Weber, piano
A New York State of Mind returns as award-winning New York-based vocal artist Karen Oberlin performs songs from Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, and other jazz, pop, and Broadway greats. Called "one of the saviors of the Great American Songbook" by theNew York Times, and "thrilling" by critic Rex Reed, Oberlin headlines at such iconic New York venues as the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Top New York musical director and NPR host Jon Weber accompanies.This concert is funded in part by the Hazel Hoyt Witherell Memorial Concert Fund.
Page Commons, Cotter Union
9:00 p.m.
Young alumni welcome home pub night
Join young alumni and celebrate being back at Colby. Enjoy free appetizers and a chance to win one of several door prizes.
Marchese Blue Light Pub, Cotter Union
