Members of the classes ending in "3" and "8" returned to campus for lectures, concerts, fun and games.

Thousands of Cornellians returned to campus June 5-8 to enjoy bright summer weather and warm memories.

This year Cornell received a record number of student applications, conferred the first M.D. degrees ever given abroad by an American medical school, developed a new financial-aid policy to make its education more affordable and completed a strategic plan to articulate priorities, said President David J. Skorton, speaking to a full house of alumni and friends in Bailey Hall, June 7.

The nationally respected journalist shared her thoughts on this year's presidential campaign at the 2008 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture, June 6.

The next U.S. president will face the daunting task of re-establishing the nation's legitimacy on the global stage, said scholars in a reunion weekend roundtable.

The history of winemaking and grape growing was anything but smooth, according to wine expert Thomas Pinney, who gave a lecture to Cornell alumni June 5.

The Sherwoods are alumni who perform each year on Reunion Weekend. The group was formed in 1958 by renegade choristers who left the Glee Club to follow their own drummer, so to speak.

Thousands of Cornell alumni from class years 1933-2003 will descend on campus for this year's Reunion, June 5-8.