Some 5,500 alumni and guests are expected to visit Ithaca today through Sunday and reunite with former classmates and professors, revisit favorite haunts, sample classroom offerings and commemorate longstanding traditions during Reunion 1996.
Activities include: recreational and sporting events; guided tours of the campus and campus facilities; cruises on Cayuga Lake; the nightly Reunion tents on the Arts Quad; and gastronomic functions galore, including the annual alumni luncheon at noon on Friday and Saturday in Barton Hall.
One of the highlights of the weekend's smorgasbord of educational forums, symposia and lectures will be the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture on Friday at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall, delivered by Beverly Sills, Lincoln Center board chair.
At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, also in Bailey Hall, President Hunter Rawlings will deliver his first State of the University Address at a Cornell Reunion. That evening in the same location, beginning at 9:30 p.m., Cornelliana Night will feature songs from the Alumnae Chorus and Alumni Glee Club.
Alumni with questions about activities can contact the Reunion information desk in Barton Hall, through Saturday afternoon, at 255-3127 or 255-1049, or the Office of Alumni Affairs, 626 Thurston Ave. at 255-2390, 255-4850 and 255-7085.