9:00 - 5:30 p.m. Fox Den open

11:30 a.m. Class of 1975 50th Reunion Lunch with Head of School Bryan Garman
Tent, Class of 1960 Garden (rain location: Bernstein Drawing Room, Zartman House)

12:45 p.m. Class of 1975 Special Conversation with Upper School Principal Robbie Gross
Tent, Class of 1960 Garden (rain location: Bernstein Drawing Room, Zartman House)

2:00 p.m. Class of 1975 50th Reunion Lemonade & Cookies with 5th Grade
Middle School

3:00 p.m. Registration Opens

3:45 p.m. Campus Tours (Main campus tour and accessible tour)
Welcome Center, Arts Center Courtyard

4:00 p.m. - 4:30p.m. New Upper School “Hard Hat” Tour
Upton Campus

5:00 p.m. Back to the Classroom, Taught by Current Faculty
Kogod Arts Center

Metropolitan Policy and the DMV
Natalie Randolph ’98, Director of Equity, Justice, and Community, and Robbie Gross, Upper School Principal
Location TBD

50 Years of Horizon
Zachary Harvat, Upper School English Teacher and Faculty Advisor to Horizon
Location TBD

6:00 p.m. Quakers in History with Bryan Garman
Robert L. Smith Meeting Room

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Class Cocktails (assigned spaces for each class group to gather)
Various campus spaces 

CLASS COCKTAILS LOCATIONS:
1955 & 1960: RLS Lobby
1965 & 1970: Caplin Lobby
1975: Field Overlook in RLS 
1980, 1985 & 1990, 1995, 2000: Tent, Class of 1960 Garden
2005, 2010, 2015, 2020: Arts Center Courtyard

8:30 p.m. Campus events conclude; time for optional class-specific gatherings 

 

9:00 - 2:00 p.m. Fox Den open

10:00 a.m. Service Project, sponsored by the Center for Ethical Leadership
Upper School Dining Room

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Time for Optional Class-Specific Gatherings 

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. New Upper School “Hard Hat” Tour 
Upton Campus

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. New Upper School “Hard Hat” Tour 
Upton Campus

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. New Upper School “Hard Hat” Tour 
Upton Campus

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. New Upper School “Hard Hat” Tour 
Upton Campus

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. New Upper School “Hard Hat” Tour 
Upton Campus

4:30 p.m. Registration Opens
Welcome Center, Arts Center Courtyard 

5:00 p.m. Campus Tours (Main campus tour and accessible tour)
Welcome Center, Arts Center Courtyard

6:15 p.m. Meeting for Worship
Robert L. Smith Meeting Room 

7:00 p.m. Dinner and Distinguished Alumni Awards Presentation
Tent, Class of 1960 Garden, Zartman House

8:30 p.m. Reunion Celebration
Tent, Class of 1960 Garden, Zartman House and Arts Center Courtyard

10:00 p.m. Event Concludes

 

Sonya Clark creates installations, crafted objects, and participatory projects to celebrate Black culture, create purposeful communities, and interrogate historical imbalances. She’s the Winifred Arms Professor of Arts and Humanities at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Along with four honorary doctorates, Clark has received awards from United States Artists, Pollock-Krasner, Anonymous Was a Woman among others. Her work has been exhibited in over 500 venues worldwide and is included in numerous museum collections.

Grace Dammann ’65 spent her 20s and 30s trying to figure out how she could make a difference in the world in a way that felt authentic and useful. After time at Smith College, the University of Chicago, and then at Yale where she graduated from The Divinity School, Dammann ended up graduating from the medical school at the University of California San Francisco, at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. She set up a step-down unit from San Francisco General and University of California for people with AIDS who had no other place to go, no family or support group able and willing to care for them, or who were too sick to go home. She was an AIDS specialist until 2008 when she was involved in a life-altering car crash on the Golden Gate Bridge. After a two-year recovery—documented in the film States of Grace— Dammann was inspired to return to work in a different capacity, this time working with patients with chronic pain at the Laguna Honda Hospital. Following a long-time practice and passion, Dammann recently became an ordained Buddhist.

Tia Powell, MD is Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center; for 15 years she was director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics. Dr. Powell’s bioethics work focuses on public policy, aging, dementia, end-of-life care, and public health disasters. She served as Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, which was New York State’s bioethics commission. She founded and directed Einstein’s MS program in Bioethics. Dr. Powell has worked with the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on many projects, and currently chairs their Committee for Research Priorities for Preventing and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. She has worked with the CDC, NY State and City, and various professional organizations on issues related to public health ethics and disasters. She served as a special advisor to AHRQ on ethics, dementia and multiple chronic conditions; on the American Psychiatric Association ethics committee; and as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Hastings Center. She wrote Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End, published by Penguin Random House in 2019. Dr. Powell received a BA from Harvard College and MD from Yale Medical School. She is currently developing content for diverse media outlets related to bioethics.

Rabbi Toba Spitzer was ordained in 1997 by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC), and since has served Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in West Newton, Massachusetts.  She is a past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, and was the first openly LGBT leader of a national rabbinic organization.  She is also a past president of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, and has been included in the “Forward 50” and Newsweek’s “Top 50 Rabbis in America.” 

Before entering RRC, Rabbi Spitzer was involved in a variety of peace and social justice issues, from young people’s involvement in grassroots organizing to Israel-Palestinian co-existence. She was the Assistant Director of the Jewish Peace Lobby in Washington from 1989-91, helping to build a Jewish advocacy group promoting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While in rabbinical school, she organized a rabbinic human rights mission to Haiti during the military junta, and helped found the Philadelphia Interfaith Coalition for the General Welfare, a group addressing issues of poverty and welfare reform.  She served for a decade on the national Board of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, and currently co-chairs T’ruah’s Massachusetts regional cluster. She also sits on the strategy team of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization.

Rabbi Spitzer has published articles on topics including process theology, Judaism in the public square, and covenantal community, and in 2022 her book God Is Here: Reimagining the Divine was published by St Martin’s Press.

1955
Rob Bressler

1960
Larry Robinson
Steve Bralove
Sherry Mulliken Houghton
Richard Mills
Jim Ramey
John Midlen
Larrine Salmon Abolt
Jody Hutchinson
Susan Freeman McGee

1970
Margaret Weaver Steele
Palmer Foret

2005
Allie Levey
Alexis Lazda

2010
Dan Seder

Camille Jones
Onat Tarimcillar
Gigi Stark
Naomi Weiner
Emily Miller
Gavin Springer
Kate Maguire

2020
Chris Ward
Zack Majd