A Reunion for the Record Books

Reunion homecoming was scheduled to begin one month to the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., and at first, organizers were a little unsure whether alumni would still come. Come they did—a record 4,848 of them, bringing along some 1,862 guests. A capacity crowd filled Memorial Auditorium for the roundtable event, which brought Stanford professors together to address the question, “September 11: What Happened, and What Now?” Alumni also shared memories in their class tents, danced in the Quad until midnight, cheered the Cardinal football team through a hard-fought loss to Washington State and attended almost 60 Classes Without Quizzes on topics ranging from Hawaiian musical traditions to how to make high-tech paper airplanes. Noted Craig Goldman, ’81, in his class scrapbook: “How strange to listen to lectures on a full night’s sleep.”