Approximately 1,500 alumni and guests are expected to visit Waterville from Friday, June 2, through Sunday, June 4, for Colby College’s 2000 Reunion Weekend. Colby graduates from the 1920s to the 1990s will participate in scheduled campus events such as class dinners, book signings with Colby authors, swing dance classes and educational panels with alumni and faculty. Golf outings, a museum tour and boat trips are among off-campus activities.

Friday night the Alumni Association will present awards. Retiring President William R. Cotter and his wife, Linda K. Cotter, will receive the Ernest C. Marriner Distinguished Service Award. Trustee Edson V. Mitchell ’75 will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Jack Alex ’50, Louis ’55 and Kathleen McConaughy Zambello ’56, Jane Whipple Coddington ’55, Joanne Weddell Magyar ’71 and Susan Conant Cook ’75 will receive Colby Brick Awards.

Saturday at 11 a.m. alumni will march in the parade of classes. The following events on Saturday, June 3, are open to the public free of charge:

2 p.m. Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself As Effectively as You Care for Everyone Else, Alice Domar ’80, author. Director, Mind/Body Center for Women’s Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Lovejoy 208

2 p.m. Results from the Colby Student Lifestyle Survey
Associate Professor of Economics Michael Donihue ’78, Lovejoy 100

2 p.m. Teaching at Colby Today
with professors Ariel Armony (government),
Kim Besio (East Asian studies) and Whitney King (chemistry), Olin 1

3 p.m. From Washington to Waterville: Why the 2000 Elections are Important and Who's Going to Win, Stuart Rothenberg ’70, editor, The Rothenberg Political Report, Lovejoy 213

3 p.m. Sports and Leisure, Mirror of American Culture
Charles Bassett (American studies and English), Lovejoy 208

3 p.m. Caught in the Web, Challenging Issues in Information Technology at Colby
Ray Phillips, Director of Information Technology Services, Lovejoy 100

Almost one half of the living members of the class of 1950 will return to Colby to celebrate their 50th reunion. Other classes ending in "0" or "5" will celebrate key reunion years.
For information on activities and registration contact the Colby Alumni Relations Office at (207) 872-3190 or visit http://www.colby.edu/alumni/reunion/index.html.