Alumni to gather for Reunion Weekend at St. Bonaventure University

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., June 4, 2013 — Alumni and friends of St. Bonaventure University will return to campus this weekend for the university’s annual Alumni Reunion Weekend.

Special recognition is given to graduating classes going back in five-year increments, from the class of 2008 to the 50-year class of 1963, although alumni from all classes are encouraged to attend. As many as 900 people are expected to return for the weekend’s activities.

Friday’s activities include walking tours of campus and several special-topic presentations. Special class dinners will be held at various off-campus venues and the evening will end with a social in the newly renovated Rathskeller on campus.

Saturday events include golf at the SBU course; a donor-recognition breakfast with Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president; campus tours including a look at the new William E. and Ann L. Swan Business Center; walk-through tours of other campus buildings and residence halls; and a number of campus open houses, including one at Friedsam Memorial Library, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

The Alumni Memorial Mass will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the University Chapel. Alumni will then gather for a cocktail reception at Hickey Dining Hall before boarding shuttles to the Premier Banquet Center for the annual Reunion Dinner and the William “Stax” McCarthy Alumni of the Year presentation.

The weekend concludes Sunday morning with a breakfast in Hickey Dining Hall and a Mass at 10:30 a.m. in the University Chapel.

For more on Reunion Weekend, go to www.sbu.edu/reunion.