A record number of attendees (7,190). A record number of events (446). Reunion Homecoming 2002, held October 17 to 20, included something for everyone. There was, of course, the social scene: Friday night parties, tailgates, minireunions and more. Sports fans got to watch a football victory—one of two this season—over Arizona, followed by a big-screen World Series telecast. There were tours, film fests, dances and concerts. And the intellectual offerings were legion: Classes Without Quizzes, a book discussion, an undergraduate research symposium, a roundtable, a reargument of a historic case about presidential power before Chief Justice William Rehnquist, ’48, MA ’48, JD ’52, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, ’50, JD ’52, and former University President Gerhard Casper. The educational components allow people to “reconnect with the reason they came to Stanford,” says Leslie Winick, the Alumni Association’s director of classes and reunions. “When else would you go back and take a course on Shakespeare?” Or fluid mechanics, or Mayan inscriptions, or motion-picture technology. Yes, something for everyone—or maybe every facet of everyone.
To view photos from the weekend, visit the Reunion Photo Galleries.
