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Reed College leads annual trip to Russia; public can sign up

• Updated: Jan. 19, 2013, 1:21 a.m.
• | Published: Jan. 19, 2013, 12:21 a.m.

The golden domes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation (dating to 1489) in the Moscow Kremlin.

• The Oregonian/OregonLive

The Reed College Russian department and Alumni Office are sponsoring an  two-week trip to Russia, May 25-June 9. The  itinerary, which is designed to explore Russian culture from its beginning to modern times, includes the vibrant present capital, Moscow, and the beautiful former one, St. Petersburg, with their extraordinary historical sites and museums (including the famous Hermitage, one of the world's greatest). The tour will also visit the charming ancient towns of

, Vladimir, and

, noted for their spectacular medieval architecture.

The tour, the tenth, will again be led by Russian scholar and former Reed professor Judson Rosengrant.

The land cost is $4,725, inclusive, and the trip is open to anyone on a space-available basis. For details, contact Rosengrant at 503.880.9521 or

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100 Notable alumni of Reed College

Updated: February 29, 2024

Reed College is 511th in the world, 193rd in North America, and 179th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Reed College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology giant Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Ryland Peter Cooder is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.

Larry Sanger

Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of the online encyclopedia Nupedia and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name 'Wikipedia', and wrote many of Wikipedia's early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Sanger later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia.

Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 film Peyton Place. In 1969 and 1970, she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.

Dr. Demento

Barret Eugene Hansen, known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Pasadena, California station KPPC-FM. He played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, and DJ "The Obscene" Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be "demented" to play it, and the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network from 1978 to 1992. Broadcast syndication of the show ended on June 6, 2010, but the show continues to be produced weekly in an online version.

James Beard

James Andrews Beard was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, Oregon, and lectured widely. He emphasized American cooking, prepared with fresh, wholesome, American ingredients, to a country just becoming aware of its own culinary heritage. Beard taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. He published more than twenty books, and his memory is honored by his foundation's annual James Beard Awards.

Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis, and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.

Daniel Kottke

Daniel Kottke is an American businessman known for having been a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. He met Jobs at Reed College in 1972, and they trekked together through India for spiritual enlightenment and to the All One Farm. In 1976, Kottke realized his interest in computers when Jobs hired him to assemble hobbyist computer projects and then to be a part-time employee at the newly founded Apple Computer. There, he debugged tne Apple II family, prototyped the Apple III and Macintosh, and endured the IPO where Steve Wozniak assigned Kottke some of his own stock. He was portrayed in several films about Apple.

Emilio Pucci

Don Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento was an Italian aristocrat, fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.

Michael Ryan Davis was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism (Feb 2022).

Raymond Smullyan

Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.

Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves is an American librarian, educator, historian, and editor. She is the eldest grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her parents are Anna Roosevelt Dall and her first husband Curtis Bean Dall. She is usually known as "Sistie", "Ellie" or "Eleanor".

Steven Raichlen

Steven Raichlen is an American culinary writer, TV host, and novelist.

Rose Friedman

Rose Director Friedman /dɪˈrɛktər ˈfriːdmən/; born Rose Director was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.

Alafair Burke

Alafair S. Burke is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is a New York Times bestselling author of twenty crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, and The Better Sister, and two series—one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, and the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Suzan DelBene

Suzan Kay DelBene is an American politician and businesswoman who has been the United States representative from Washington's 1st congressional district since 2012.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Kristina Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez, also known by her initials MGP, is an American politician and businesswoman. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been the U.S. representative for Washington's 3rd congressional district since 2023.

Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude formation and change. He has also researched psi phenomena, group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation, and personality theory and assessment.

Diane Ravitch

Diane Silvers Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2010, she became "an activist on behalf of public schools". Her blog at DianeRavitch.net has received more than 36 million page views since she began blogging in 2012. Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books.

Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities.

Eric Overmyer

Eric Ellis Overmyer is an American writer and producer. He has written and/or produced numerous TV shows, including St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, New Amsterdam, Bosch, Treme, and The Man in the High Castle.

Johanna Fateman

Johanna Rachel Fateman is an American writer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. She is a member of the post-punk rock band Le Tigre and founded the band MEN with Le Tigre bandmate JD Samson.

Adrian Chen

Adrian Chen is an American blogger, and former staff writer at The New Yorker. Chen joined Gawker in November 2009 as a night shift editor, graduating from an internship position at Slate, and has written extensively on Internet culture, especially virtual communities such as 4chan and Reddit. Chen is the creator of The Pamphlette, a "humor publication" for Reed College students on a piece of letter-size paper. He has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, Wired, and other publications.

Robert Cornthwaite

Robert Rae Cornthwaite was an American film and television character actor.

Mukunda Goswami

Mukunda Goswami is a spiritual leader (guru) in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON or the Hare Krishnas).

Eleanor Rosch

Eleanor Rosch is an American psychologist. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization, in particular her prototype theory, which has profoundly influenced the field of cognitive psychology.

Anya Schiffrin

Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications (TMaC) specialization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Sally Haslanger

Sally Haslanger is an American philosopher and the Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.

John Elwood "Bud" Clark Jr. was an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1985 to 1992. A left-leaning populist with little political experience before his mayoral bid, he was one of Portland's most colorful political figures.

Greta Christina

Greta Christina is an American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author.

Tamim Ansary

Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, West of Kabul, East of New York, and other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history. He was previously a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta.

Steven Shapin

Steven Shapin is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scientific knowledge, and is credited with creating new approaches. He has won many awards, including the 2014 George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society for career contributions to the field.

Victor Jorgensen

Victor Jorgensen was a former Navy photo journalist who probably is most notable for taking an instantly iconic photograph of an impromptu scene in Manhattan on August 14, 1945, but from a different angle and in a less dramatic exposure than that of a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Both photographs were of the same V-J Day embrace of a woman in a white dress by a sailor. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph, V-J Day in Times Square, was published in Life.

Malati Dasi

Malati Dasi is a senior spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Born in Vallejo, California, she was part of the hippie movement before becoming an initiated disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1967. In the same year, she and her husband, Shyamasundar Das, helped Mukunda Das organize the Mantra-Rock Dance, a countercultural musical event held at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco; the dance was a fundraiser for ISKCON's first center on the west coast of the US.

Simone Forti

Simone Forti is an American postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer. Since the 1950s, she has exhibited, performed, and taught workshops all over the world. Her innovations in Postmodern dance, including her seminal 1961 body of work, Dance Constructions, along with her contribution to the early Fluxus movement, have influenced many notable dancers and artists. Forti first apprenticed with Anna Halprin in the 1950s and has since worked alongside artists and composers Nam June Paik, Steve Paxton, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Van Riper, Dan Graham, Yoshi Wada, Robert Morris and others. Forti's published books include Handbook in Motion (1974, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Angel (1978, self-published), and Oh Tongue (2003, Beyond Baroque Foundation, ed. Fred Dewey). She is currently represented by The Box L.A. in Los Angeles, CA, and has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, activist, and former U.S. congressional candidate. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). In 1997 he founded the Institute for Public Accuracy, which works to provide alternative sources for journalists, and serves as its executive director.

Arlene Blum

Arlene Blum is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading the first successful American ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also an all-woman ascent. She led the first all-woman ascent of Denali ("Denali Damsels" expedition), and was the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. She is Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute.

Dale W. Jorgenson

Dale Weldeau Jorgenson was an American economist who served as the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. An influential econometric scholar, he was famed for his work on the relationship between productivity and economic growth, the economics of climate change, and the intersection between economics and statistics. Described as a "master" of his field, he received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1971, and was described as a worthy contender for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Richard Wolin

Richard Wolin is an American intellectual historian who writes on 20th Century European philosophy, particularly German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the group of thinkers known collectively as the Frankfurt School.

Margaret Elizabeth Murie

Margaret Elizabeth Thomas "Mardy" Murie was a naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist. Dubbed the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, she helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act, and was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She was the recipient of the Audubon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States.

Richard Danzig

Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the chairman of the national security think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.

Tina Satter

Kristina "Tina" Satter is an American filmmaker, playwright, and director based in New York City. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which formed in 2008 and received an Obie Award grant in 2013. Satter won a Guggenheim in 2020. Satter was described by Ben Brantley of the New York Times as "a genre-and-gender-bending, visually exacting stage artist who has developed an ardent following among downtown aesthetes with a taste for acidic eye candy and erotic enigmas." Her work often deals with subjects of gender, sexual identity, adolescence, and sports.

Anne Washburn

Anne Washburn is an American playwright.

Igor Vamos is a member of The Yes Men (using the alias Michael "Mike" Bonanno), and an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2000, he received the Creative Capital award in the discipline of Emerging Fields. He is also a co-founder of RTmark and the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, granted for a project that used Global Positioning System (GPS) and other wireless technology to create a new medium with which to "view" his documentary Grounded, about an abandoned military base in Wendover, Utah.

Charles Bigelow

Charles A. Bigelow is an American type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, the Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in 2001 and 2002, and other honors. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio.

William Sumio Naito was an American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist in Portland, Oregon, U.S. He was an enthusiastic advocate for investment in downtown Portland, both private and public, and is widely credited for helping to reverse a decline in the area in the 1970s through acquiring and renovating derelict or aging buildings and encouraging others to invest in downtown and the central city.

Mark Ptashne

Mark Ptashne is a molecular biologist. He is the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Kris Holmes

Kris Holmes is an American typeface designer, calligrapher, type design educator and animator. She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families, among many other typeface designs. She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art. She is married to the painter Richard Tuttle, with whom she has frequently collaborated.

Lisa Nakamura

Lisa Nakamura is an American professor of media and cinema studies, Asian American studies, and gender and women’s studies. She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures.

Pamela Ronald

Pamela Christine Ronald is an American plant pathologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis and a member of the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California. In 2018 she served as a visiting professor at Stanford University in the Center on Food Security and the Environment.

Jon Appleton

Jon Howard Appleton was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre" and "Newark Airport Rock" (1967) attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music. In 1970, he won Guggenheim, Fulbright and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. When he was twenty-eight years old, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years. In the mid-1970s, he left Dartmouth to briefly become the head of Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) (sv) in Stockholm, Sweden. In the late 1970s, together with Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones, he helped develop the first commercial digital synthesizer called the Synclavier. For a decade he toured around the United States and Europe performing the compositions he composed for this instrument. In the early 1990s, he helped found the Theremin Center for Electronic Music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. He also taught at Keio University (Mita) in Tokyo, Japan, CCRMA at Stanford University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In his later years, he devoted most of his time to the composition of instrumental and choral music in a quasi-Romantic vein which has largely been performed only in France, Russia and Japan.

Jessica Litman

Jessica Litman is a leading intellectual property scholar. She has been ranked as one of the most-cited U.S. law professors in the field of intellectual property/cyberlaw.

Vanessa Veselka

Vanessa Veselka is an American writer best known for her 2020 novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Award and was longlisted for the U.S. National Book Award. She is also known for her first novel, Zazen.

Norman Packard

Norman Harry Packard is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to chaos theory, complex systems, and artificial life. He coined the phrase "the edge of chaos".

Howard Wolpe

Howard Eliot Wolpe was an American politician who served as a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aimed to end civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He returned to the State Department as Special Advisor to the Secretary for Africa's Great Lakes Region. Previously, he served as Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. While at the Center, Wolpe directed post-conflict leadership training programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia.

Sacvan Bercovitch

Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States. During an academic career spanning five decades, he was considered to be one of the most influential and controversial figures of his generation in the emerging field of American studies.

Mary Rosenblum

Mary Rosenblum was an American science fiction and mystery author.

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. She is most well known for her work on automatically removing undesired biases concerning demographic groups from machine learning models, as well as more transparent reporting of their intended use.

Walter Berns

Walter Berns was an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. He was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.

Max Gordon was an American jazz promoter and founder of the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City.

Chris Garrett

Christopher L. Garrett is a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court since January 1, 2019. Previously, he served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2013 to 2019, and was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2008 to 2012.

Richard L. Hanna

Richard Louis Hanna was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, his district was numbered the 24th during his first term in Congress; from 2013 to 2017, it was numbered as the 22nd district.

Louis S. Goodman

Louis Sanford Goodman was an American pharmacologist. He is best known for his collaborations with Alfred Gilman, Sr., with whom he authored the popular textbook The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics in 1941 and pioneered the first chemotherapy trials using nitrogen mustard.

Maurice Isserman

Maurice Isserman, formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a Professor of History at Hamilton College. He has written about the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s. He co-authored a biography with Dorothy Ray Healey and authored a biography of Michael Harrington, both of whom were co-founders of Democratic Socialists of America. He has contributed editorials and book reviews to The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The American Alpine Review. In 2008, he began writing about mountaineering.

Sarah Dougher

Sarah Dougher /ˈduːɡər/ is an American singer-songwriter, author, and teacher. Dougher began her musical career playing the Farfisa organ in the Portland, Oregon based band The Crabs, and later joined Cadallaca with Sleater-Kinney frontwoman Corin Tucker. She has also released multiple solo albums.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer and filmmaker who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A. Fernea, was a large influence in her life. Fernea is commonly regarded as a pioneer for women in the field of Middle East Studies.

Rob Heinsoo

Rob Heinsoo is an American tabletop game designer. He has been designing and contributing to professional role-playing games, card games, and board games since 1994. Heinsoo was the lead designer on the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons (2008), and is co-designer of the 13th Age roleplaying game along with Jonathan Tweet. He has also designed and contributed to role playing, miniatures and card games, and a computer game.

Yoram Bauman

Yoram Keyes Bauman is an American economist and stand-up comedian.

Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is Way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.

Michael Teitelbaum

Michael S. Teitelbaum is a demographer and the former Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City. He is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.

Sascha Altman DuBrul

Sascha Altman DuBrul, a.k.a. Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter, is an American activist, writer, farmer and punk rock musician known as the bass player of the 1990s ska-punk band Choking Victim.

Mark Galassi

Mark Galassi is a physicist, computer scientist, and contributor to the free and open-source software movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Hans A. Linde

Hans Arthur Linde was a German Jewish American legal scholar who served as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990.

Lee Oser is a Christian humanist, novelist, and literary critic. He is a former president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. He teaches Religion and Literature at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Sumner Stone

Sumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone is shown at his personal website.

Mark Bitterman

Mark Bitterman is an American entrepreneur and food writer. He is the owner of The Meadow, a boutique that specializes in finishing salts, bean-to-bar chocolate, cocktail bitters, and other products. The Meadow was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2006, and has expanded to include three locations in Portland, one in Nolita in New York City, and one in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Bitterman began selling salt wholesale to award-winning restaurateurs in 2006, and in 2012 officially launched the Bitterman Salt Co. to sell salt through retailers nationally. Bitterman has published five books. Two are on traditional culinary salts and their use in cooking. Two are about cooking with Himalayan salt blocks, and helped pioneer the concept. His remaining book is on the use of bitters and amari in mixology and cooking. He consults with restaurateurs and lectures at culinary academies about the use of finishing salts and Himalayan salt blocks.

Tom Crosshill

Tom Crosshill is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction, active since 2010. His work has appeared in publications in Chinese, Cuban, English, Finnish, Latvian and Polish. Crosshill has been nominated for several Nebula awards and won the European Science Fiction Society Award for Best Author in 2016.

Pat Silver-Lasky

Barbara Hayden, usually known professionally as Pat Silver or Pat Silver-Lasky, is an American actress, screenwriter, and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband, Jesse Lasky Jr.

John Backus

John Graham Backus was a Lithuanian American physicist and acoustician.

Allen Bergin

Allen Eric Bergin is a clinical psychologist known for his research on psychotherapy outcomes and on integrating psychotherapy and religion. His 1980 article on theistic values was groundbreaking in the field and elicited over 1,000 responses and requests for reprints, and including those from Carl Rogers and Albert Bandura. Bergin is also noted for his interchanges with probabilistic atheist Albert Ellis.

Arthur Ogus

Arthur Edward Ogus is an American mathematician. His research is in algebraic geometry; he has served as chair of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jonathan Grudin

Jonathan Grudin was a researcher at Microsoft from 1998 to 2022 and is affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School working in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Grudin is a pioneer of the field of computer-supported cooperative work and one of its most prolific contributors. His collaboration distance to other researchers of human-computer interactions has been described by the "Grudin number". Grudin is also well known for the "Grudin Paradox" or "Grudin Problem", which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the interests of individual contributors, and therefore not used." He was awarded the inaugural CSCW Lasting Impact Award in 2014 on the basis of this work. He has also written about the publication culture and history of human-computer interactions. His book From Tool to Partner, The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction was published in 2017.

Lorne Craner

Lorne Whitney Craner was an American foreign policy expert, has served in key diplomatic and policymaking roles in three administrations and three times as president of major non-governmental organizations.

Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi is an Iranian American novelist, and filmmaker.

Lawrence N. Shaw was an American physicist, curator, and artist. Shaw worked at the Exploratorium, a San Francisco science museum, for 33 years, performing just about every function for the museum. He was a key member of the arts and technology community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

David Bragdon

David L. Bragdon is an American politician and civic leader in the U.S. states of Oregon and New York. From 2003 to 2010, he was the elected president of the Metro Council, a regional government in the Portland metropolitan area. He served as Director of the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability in the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City. He is currently executive director of TransitCenter, Inc., a New York-based non-profit organization which commissions and conducts research and advocacy related to urban transportation.

Athena Aktipis

Christina Athena Aktipis is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative and the co-director of the Human Generosity Project. She is also the director of the Cooperation and Conflict lab at Arizona State University, vice president of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer, and was the director of human and social evolution and co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at UCSF. She is a cooperation theorist, an evolutionary biologist, an evolutionary psychologist, and a cancer biologist who works at the intersection of those fields. Aktipis is the author of the book published on March 24, 2020, from Princeton University Press The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps us Understand and Treat Cancer. Athena hosts Zombified, a podcast created to communicate the science of zombification in daily life. Zombified is an extension of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM), a biannual conference chaired by Aktipis. ZAMM is an interdisciplinary conference where art, science and medicine come together with the aim of solving complex issues.

Michael E. Levine

Michael E. Levine was a "Distinguished Research Scholar" at the New York University School of Law. He was involved in the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive, an academic and a government official. He retired from Northwest Airlines in 1999 to return to academic life.

David Grusky

David Bryan Grusky is an American sociologist and the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. He formerly taught at Cornell University, where he was the founder and founding director of the Center for the Study of Inequality.

Margaret Bechard

Margaret Bechard is an American author of contemporary and science fiction for children and young adults.

Megan Prelinger

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Jacob Tanzer

Jacob B. Tanzer was an American attorney in the state of Oregon. Prior to private practice Tanzer served as the 81st justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. He also served on the Oregon Court of Appeals, was a deputy district attorney for Multnomah County, Oregon, and worked for the United States Department of Justice.

Kaori O'Connor

Kaori O’Connor was a social anthropologist and writer known for academic and non-fiction works that combine anthropology with history and archaeology, for studies of science and society, and for her work on material culture, commodities of empire, fashion and the anthropology of food.

Paul Shaw is an American designer, calligrapher and historian of design who lives in New York City. He has written a book on the history of the design of the New York City Subway system, Helvetica and the New York Subway System: The True Story, on the work of William Addison Dwiggins, and for Print magazine. His book on the New York subway is known as one of the best modern design books. He received the annual SoTA Typography Award of 2019. Paul Shaw is Editor-in-Chief of Codex, Journal of Letterforms and The Eternal Letter Design. His work has won awards from the AIGA Directors Club and the Art Directors Club of New York.

Lewis Webster Jones

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Cathy Linh Che

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Lisa Kemmerer

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Save the Date! Reunions 2025—June 12-15

Rediscover all that you love about Reed during Reunions weekend. Join your fellow alumni on campus for a spectacular weekend full of Reedie traditions, class celebrations, and more.

Step into the nostalgia and relive the magic of past Reunions by looking through our online photo albums . There's something special about seeing all the fun moments captured in photos - it's a great way to re-experience the excitement and joy of Reunions past.

Check out the schedule below for all the fun times from Reunions 2024. The schedule will be updated early 2025!

Thursday, June 6

Reunions central.

12:30-8 p.m., Prexy House When you arrive on campus, please come to Reunions Central in Prexy and pick up your registration materials, event tickets, and dorm keys.

Bookstore Open

9 a.m.-8 p.m., basement of Gray Campus Center Got old Reed clothing you no longer wear? The Reed Bookstore is looking for gently worn Reed logoed clothing! In exchange, you'll receive a 15% off coupon good towards your next piece of Reed clothing. Reach out to [email protected]  with any questions about this new program.

Community Art Project

9 a.m.-8 p.m., Gray Campus Center hallway (outside Commons) Share your Reed memories with us! Pictures will be taken of the white boards periodically to preserve them.

Reactor Tour

3-4 p.m., Chemistry Patio,  Sign up at Prexy Tour Reed's nuclear reactor: the only nuclear reactor in the nation operated primarily by undergraduates. Licensed students use it for thesis projects and to increase their understanding of radiation and radioactivity.

TTT Reunions Style @ The Lutz

4 p.m.—late, The Lutz Join Portland alumni for the chapter's monthly TTT (occurring earlier in the month to coincide with Reunions). We will convene up the hill at a favorite haunt of Reedies -- the Lutz! The slushy drinks and dive-y decor are the same as they ever were, but the food and drink menus have seen serious upgrades since new ownership took over in 2011. Last year, we packed the back deck for a low-key Bacchanale. Let's do it again!

MAT/MALS Reception

4:30-6:30 p.m., PAB 3rd Floor Welcome back to campus, MAT/MALS graduates! We hope you’ll join us as we raise our glass to the new Associate Dean of Graduate and Special Programs, Laura Zientek . Mingle with other MAT/MALS graduates over drinks and light hors d'oeuvres. Open to MAT/MALS graduates and current MALS students.

6-7:30 p.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant-style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Pay on your own

MAT/MALS Dinner

6:30-8 p.m., Commons & GCC C-D Let's meet each other! MALS/MAT grads are coming to Reunions for the first time in a while. Join us as we share dinner together the first night of Reunions. * Pay on your own

Igor Vamos '90: Documentary Premiere

7-9 p.m., Chapel Igor Vamos ’90 is a media artist and Professor and Graduate Program Director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). While at Reed, Vamos organized a student group called Guerrilla Theater of the Absurd, which performed and documented "culture jamming" acts of protest. Vamos is also known as “Mike Bonanno,” in his work with The Yes Men , the performance-activist duo that impersonates captains of industry and surprise unsuspecting business audiences with satirical, poignant actions that comment upon pressing social and environmental issues.  

Embrace the Paradox Fundraiser

7-10 p.m., Pool Hall Drop by the Pool Hall for a classic 'Pool Hall Informal' and support the Paradox cafe.

Reunions Bar

7-10 p.m., Homer's Hut (across from bookstore)

International Folk Dancing Like We Used to Do with Jim Kahan ’64

7:30-9 p.m., Student Union International Folk Dancing returns—for this year on Thursday night instead of our traditional Friday nights. Because the Dance Studio is still closed for repairs, we will dance in one of our favorite Olde Reed haunts, the Student Union, with its wonderful wooden floor. Jim Kahan ’64 will supply the music (he has a digital version of what we danced to and more). You can wear whatever you want on your feet at this venue except YakTrax or similar destructive footgear, but including nothing.

Friday, June 7

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Prexy House When you arrive on campus, please come to Reunions Central in Prexy and pick up your registration materials, event tickets, and dorm keys.

Used Book Sale with Bill Nelson '62

Acquire new (to you) knowledge at the Used Book Sale! Whether you’re interested in growing various species of daffodils or grasping the history of mapmaking, you’ll find what you’re looking for and more! Check it out.

8–9:30 p.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant-style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Pay on your own

Zen Meditation

8–9 a.m., Cooley Gallery (inside the library) (Quietly) celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Zen movement at Reed by joining us for a meditation session in the Cooley Gallery. 

9 a.m.–midnight, basement of Gray Campus Center Got old Reed clothing you no longer wear? The Reed Bookstore is looking for gently worn Reed logoed clothing! In exchange, you'll receive a 15% off coupon good towards your next piece of Reed clothing. Reach out to [email protected] with any questions about this new program.

9 a.m.–midnight, Gray Campus Center hallway (outside Commons) Share your Reed memories with us! Pictures will be taken of the white boards periodically to preserve them.

10–11 a.m., Chemistry Patio, Sign up at Prexy Tour Reed's nuclear reactor: the only nuclear reactor in the nation operated primarily by undergraduates. Licensed students use it for thesis projects and to increase their understanding of radiation and radioactivity.

Architecture of Reed College: Gothic to Modernism to Post-Modernism and back again

10–11:30 a.m., Eliot 314 & Walking Tour  Sign up at Prexy The architecture of Reed College is a window into the evolution 20th-century architecture and the history of the college itself. This tour will take us from the Collegiate Gothic of A.E. Doyle's Eliot Hall through the Modernism of Pietro Belluschi, Reed Alum Neil Farnham, and others, and finally, the Post-Modernism of the Zimmer Gunsel Frasca era and newer buildings.

Do the Liberal ArtsMatter? The MAT/MALS Perspective

10 a.m.–noon, Bio 19 Did you know that Reed isn’t just for undergrads? Join the MAT/MALS committee for a panel discussing the value of the liberal arts from the perspective of four Reed MAT/MALS grads and students. This is a great time to learn more about the MALS program at Reed! All are welcome. 

11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., Commons Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant-style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Pay on your own

Learn How a Sausage is Made (Literally)

1:30–3:30 p.m., Spanish House The masters of meat will demystify the metaphor, and prove that the dirty details are in fact delicious, clean fun! Meat Smoke veterans will lead a sausage-making workshop, demonstrating the entire process from snout to tail. Get hands-on experience in cutting down and grinding whole slabs of pork, seasoning it to perfection, loading and filling pork casings, and pinching and cutting sausage links. There will be plenty of opportunities for grilling and tasting our creations during the workshop. Sausage made during this event will be served to everyone after the Laser Light Show on Saturday. Come meat with us, join in the fun, and make lots of dirty jokes (sometimes they slip out unintentionally)!

How to Play the Pennywhistle with John Cushing '67

2–3 p.m., PAB 104 Each student will receive a whistle. Students will learn breath control, fingering, the D and G scales, and a few simple tunes, followed by an Irish or Scottish air.

The Past, Present, and Future of Calligraphy at Reed with Gregory McNaughton '89

2–4 p.m., Trillium Multipurpose Room In the fall of 2012, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery launched the Calligraphy Initiative in Honor of Lloyd J. Reynolds. Please join Calligraphy Initiative coordinator Gregory MacNaughton ’89 for an illustrated presentation on the past, present, and future of calligraphy at Reed.

Reedie Films

2–4 p.m., Chapel Come view short films created by Reedies when they were students! The Nike Film (1982 - 17 minutes) A Different Drummer (1960s - 12 minutes) Mr. Mac Goes to College (1984 - 5 minutes) Gidget Goes to Reed (1984 - 21 minutes) Spider God (1969 - 32 minutes) The Possessed (Reed clips) (2021 - 30 minutes)

3–4 p.m., Chemistry Patio, Sign up at Prexy Tour Reed's nuclear reactor: the only nuclear reactor in the nation operated primarily by undergraduates. Licensed students use it for thesis projects and to increase their understanding of radiation and radioactivity.

Reedie Political Strategists Panel

3–4:30 p.m., Vollum Lecture Hall Join us for an exciting discussion with Reedie campaign and political strategists Flavia Bortoleto ’17 ( Head of Advertising Strategy, Winning Mark ), Sandeep Kaushik ’89 ( Sound View Strategies ), and Mark Wiener ’78 ( Winning Mark ). Moderated by Rachel Armitage, State Senator for Oregon State Senate District 16 from 2022-2023 .

Ultimate Frisbee

3–5 p.m., Great Lawn Come play ultimate with alumni! All Reedies welcome.

Sunny Day Surprise

Brought to you by: Gigantic Brewing 3–5 p.m., Quad Sip on Reedie-made beer while you connect with fellow Reedies and members of the Alumni Board and Alumni Chapter Leadership! 

1969 Mixer with Professors

3:30-5 p.m., Eliot 314 Class of '69 is getting together with their professors from once upon a time for a social hour OR lecture, depending on what the profs are up for.

Class of 1964: Catching Up

3:30–5:30 p.m., Eliot 216 To kick off our 60th Reunion, we will take the opportunity to share bits of our life stories. How did we get to where we are now? How much of that would have surprised us when we were students at Reed? What has made us laugh? What has made us feel good? Who do we miss? There is no set format—we’ll just converse.

Talking Tunes with Audrey Bilger and Cheryl Pawelski

4–5 p.m., PAB 320 If you're a music lover and would like to take part in a conversation about collecting, making, and enjoying records, about radio DJ-ing, about running a record label, going to concerts, and more, Audrey and Cheryl will be delighted to talk tunes with you. We'll spin some records and some yarns.

Gummy Bug Eating Contest

4–5 p.m., outside Sallyport, on the ODB Front Lawn We started at ODB and now we’re here. Relive the glory days and—don’t put that in your mouth! Seriously, what are you doing?

Class of 1959 & Earlier Years Social

4-5:30 p.m., MacNaughton Common Room 107 Members of the class of 1959 and our shoulder years are invited to join us for some time to converse, reminisce, and celebrate all these years together!

Class of 1999 Tequila Field Day: What It Is, Where It’s From, and How to Taste It

4–6:30 p.m., Winch Common Room Join Clayton Szczech ’00 and your ’99 classmates for a deep dive exploration into the nature of tequila, complete with a tasting flight!

Class of 2009 Chill 'n' Grill

4 p.m.–late, Chittick Reminisce about 2009 when everything was fine and nothing was not on fire.

Class of 1974: 50th Reunion Mixer

4:30–5:30 p.m., Anna Mann Social Room The class of 1974 is gathering to resurrect St George's Day with a mixer to reacquaint ourselves before our formal dinner. We will look for twinges of recognition in Anna Mann, venture to the President's Reception, feast on our roast dragon in Kaul Auditorium, then return to Anna Mann to carry on our bacchanal.

5–6 p.m., Cooley Gallery (inside the library) (Quietly) celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Zen movement at Reed by joining us for a meditation session in the Cooley Gallery. 

Class of 2004: Fun for the Whole Family

5–8 p.m., Foster Scholz Common Room A family friendly affair, welcoming spouses, partners, and children. We're throwing a bash that's gonna be off the hook, with activities for your little (and not-so-little) ones to do while you catch up with old and new friends. Get ready for a day filled with chill vibes and good times.

Welcome Reception & Babson Award Ceremony

5:30–6:30 p.m. Performing Arts Building atrium Join us for the kick-off reception welcoming you to Reunions 2024!

Kabbalat Shabbat

6:15–7 p.m., Prexy Conference Room Join us for candle lighting and Kiddush with wine, juice, and challah. Casual, liberal/Reconstructionist, short, and sweet.

6:30–11 p.m., Quad

6:30–8:30 p.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant-style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Meal ticket must be pre-purchased when you register

50th Reunion Dinner

6:30–8 p.m., Gray Lounge The Class of ’74 is invited to celebrate their 50th reunion over a special evening meal and presentation. * Meal ticket must be pre-purchased when you register

Class of 1979 Mixer at Gigantic

6:30–8 p.m. Gigantic Brewing Join your peers for a mixer at Gigantic Brewing, a block away from Reed. There is a no-host bar, with brews concocted by a fellow Reedie, master brewer Van. Food is available from food carts on site, or you can snag your food from the ticketed dinner in Commons before making your way over. Afterwards, we will return to our class dorm (Bidwell) on campus to continue the conversations we were having!

The Dream of the 90s is Alive at Reunions

7 p.m.–late, International Plaza at the Language Houses All class years are cordially invited to a celebration of the 90s spirit! Join us at the language houses, where we'll have delicious food, refreshing libations, and an amazing lineup of Reedie bands and musicians including Bhattsi. We'll also have a DJ spinning 90s tunes. There may even be an opportunity for you to relive your days in a Reed band by getting onstage for open mic!

Party Like it's 1984

7–9 p.m., Naito Common Room Join your peers in the class of 1984 for our 40th Reunion! We will be hosting a themed celebration - break out your 80s clothes, old photos, and memories of your thesis.

Class of 1989 35th Reunion Party

7–10 p.m., McKinley-Griffin Fire Pit Join the Class of 1989 for our 35th Reunion party at the Cross Canyon dorms outdoor patio and fire pit! We'll fire up the grills, serve delicious appetizers and potluck items, and have delicious beverages for your enjoyment! You can make your own s'mores at the fire pit. David Autrey ’89 will pour wine and Miyuki Yoshida ’89 will pour sake and guide you through tastings. We'll have an amazing party playlist, as always!

At 8pm former Reed English professor Robert Knapp will be in the McKinley-Griffin social room to lead an informal discussion on how Shakespeare is still relevant to today’s world.

International Folk Dancing Like We Used to Do with Jim Kahan ’64–RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY

Firepits, s'mores, and a sing-a-long with mateo burch ’82.

8–9 p.m., Commons Patio Chomp down on homemade s'mores while you sing the classics with Mateo Burtch ’82!

Class of 2019 Big Clown Party

8–11:30 p.m., Student Union Come clown around with the Class of 2019 as we juggle reconnecting with old friends and well…actual juggling. Wear your finest clownery. Open to the class of 2019 and friends.

Class of 2014: Ten Years Later ...

8–11:30 p.m., Winch Social Room Are you ready kids? It’s been a decade since Ellen’s selfie, Kim married Kanye, and the class of 2014’s historic graduation! Join us to catch up on what’s happened since with snacks, drinks, and games. Revisit Renn Fayre memories with old friends while sipping on a beverage or break the ice over a board game (no buckets, please). Open to class of 2014 and surrounding years.

Wine Tasting with MAT/MALS Grads

8–11:30 p.m., Vollum Lounge Relax with Reed’s MAT/MALS grads! We’ll be tasting delicious wines and sharing stories about what’s happened since we graduated from Reed. Open to MAT/MALS students and graduates.

S.L.U.R Performance

9–10 p.m., Physics Loading Dock If you can't sing well, sing louder! 

16th Annual Reedie Reunions Poker Game

9–late, Gray Lounge It's time to shuffle up and deal at the Annual Reedie Reunions Poker Game! Show off your poker skills in support of Reed! Whether you're a seasoned pro or just learning the ropes, this event is the perfect way to connect with fellow Reedies, so ante up and let's play!

Check the schedule often, events are added every day!

Saturday, June 8

8-9 a.m., Cooley Gallery (inside the library) (Quietly) celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Zen movement at Reed by joining us for a meditation session in the Cooley Gallery. 

Bird Watching: Sponsored by 1979

8-9:45 a.m., Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens Sign up at Prexy Waltz through the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens with members of the class of 1979 to identify birds. We will have a few spotting scopes, binoculars, and assistance from folks who can tell us that the 'one with the white head' is in fact, a Bufflehead! A limited number of spots are available for this venture - please use the sign-up form provided at check in.

8:30-9:30 a.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Pay on your own

9 a.m.-midnight, basement of Gray Campus Center Got old Reed clothing you no longer wear? The Reed Bookstore is looking for gently worn Reed logoed clothing! In exchange, you'll receive a 15% off coupon good towards your next piece of Reed clothing. Reach out to [email protected] with any questions about this new program.

9 a.m.-midnight, Gray Campus Center hallway (outside Commons) Share your Reed memories with us! Pictures will be taken of the white boards periodically to preserve them.

Retirement: Boon or Trap? with Dr. Don Asher '82

9-10:30 a.m., PAB 320 Where are you getting your information about retirement planning? The retirement industry controls over $37 trillion (trillion with a “t”) in funds, and employs over 1 million mostly highly paid professionals. This massive industry floods all media with a vision of retirement that requires their existence: The permanent vacation. What if that’s not right for you? What if you want or need another version? This talk is about theories of late-career and post-career human development, meaning making, planning for the time of retirement (a third half of life), and that subset of humans who love work over leisure. There is definitely more than one right answer. Whether you’re young and thinking long-term or getting closer to traditional retirement ages--or even in the midst of retirement itself--this talk can help you think more richly about your options and your plans. Based on Dr. Don Asher’s recent dissertation: “You Can Only Play so Much Golf”: The Retirement Experiences of People Who Really Love Their Work, and ongoing research.

Tee Time: Golf, organized by '79

10 a.m., Meet at Prexy at 9:45 a.m. to walk over Pre-register when you check out at registration, space is limited. Golf clubs are available to rent from $20-35 at the course * ticket must be pre-purchased when you register

Stewards of Democracy: How 8000 Local Officials Defend Democracy and Enable Elections in the US - Faculty Lecture with Paul Gronke, professor of political science

10-11 a.m., Vollum Lecture Hall Paul Gronke is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC) at Reed College. Dr. Gronke studies American politics, specializing in convenience and early voting, election administration, public opinion, and elections. In 2005, Dr. Gronke established EVIC, which searches for common sense, non-partisan solutions to identified problems in election administration. For the past decade, Dr. Gronke has worked to improve access and ensure integrity in the American elections system, helping to guarantee that every eligible citizen in the U.S. can participate in our democratic system.

11 a.m.-noon, Chemistry Patio, Sign up at Prexy Tour Reed's nuclear reactor: the only nuclear reactor in the nation operated primarily by undergraduates. Licensed students use it for thesis projects and to increase their understanding of radiation and radioactivity.

Reedies in Elected Office Panel

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Vollum Lecture Hall Join us for an exciting discussion with Reedies in elected office— Council President Yi-Kang Hu ’95 (City of Tigard, Oregon), Councilor Christine Lewis ’07 (Metro Councilor, District 2), Commissioner Mingus Mapps ’90 ( City Council Commissioner, Mayoral Candidate, City of Portland, Oregon) , and Senator Diane Rosenbaum ’71 ( Former Oregon State Senate Majority Leader, House & Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, House Democratic Whip, and Interim Multnomah County Commissioner ). Moderated by Professor Paul Gronke . Introduction by Alumni Board President Dylan Rivera ’95 .

Diversity & Inclusion Committee Bubbles & Brunch

11 a.m.-1 p.m., GCC C-D Join the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Alumni Board and the Identity-Based Affinity Networks* for brunch. Dr. Karnell McConnell-Black, Vice President for Student Life, will give a brief talk followed by a Q & A session. [*The three Identity-Based Affinity Networks welcome all alumni who self-identify as first-generation college students, alumni of color, and/or LGBTQIA2S+ alumni.]

Tree Climbing

11 a.m.-3 p.m., Between Eliot & Student Union Let your inner child loose and climb a tree on campus. Please note: harnesses are available. Say hi to the squirrels while you’re up there!

Marketplace & Carnival

Marketplace 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Carnival 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.; PAB Lawn Enjoy this food, drink, books and crafts showcase featuring Reedie chefs, bakers, growers, harvesters, authors, and artists, enjoy eccentric Vaudevillian swing courtesy of Bellows and Squawk, balloon artists, face painters, craft stations, and more! Don't miss out on this Reedie Reunions Tradition!

Foster-Scholz Annual Luncheon 

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Kaul Auditorium Alumni whose graduation year is 1984 or earlier (and their partners and friends) are invited to join us in honoring this year's retiring faculty and alumni volunteers for their dedicated service to Reed at the Foster-Scholz annual luncheon and awards cermony. The Luncheon will feature a keynote speech by retiring Professor Steven Wasserstrom, and the bestowing of the Distinguished Service Award on Barbara West '64 and Steven Falk '83. * Meal ticket must be pre-purchased when you register

Hot Turkey Sandwich Picnic Lunch

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Meal ticket must be pre-purchased when you register

Jeremy Stone ’99 Memorial

noon-2 p.m., Winch Social Room Let's gather to remember Jeremy Stone ’99 and celebrate the people he brought together throughout his life. Classmates from all years, faculty, scroungers, and Red Door alum are encouraged to attend.  

Library Hours

noon-4 p.m., Library Come check out the library and find your thesis in the tower!

Reedie Mom Hangout

1-3 p.m., Outside PAB Are you a Reedie and also a mom? Come hang out with us!

500 Years of Italic Handwriting

1-3 p.m., Trillium Multipurpose Room Scriptorium is Reed's weekly calligraphy and paleography workshop, open to all members of the Reed community. All materials will be provided.

Class Photos

1 p.m., East PAB staircase (look for the signs!) Gather with your classmates for Class Photos! Class of 2019: 1 p.m. Class of 2014: 1:05 p.m. Class of 2009: 1:10 p.m. Class of 2004: 1:15 p.m. Class of 1999: 1:20 p.m. Class of 1994: 1:25 p.m. Class of 1989: 1:30 p.m. Class of 1984: 1:35 p.m. Class of 1979: 1:40 p.m. Class of 1974: 1:45 p.m. Class of 1969: 1:50 p.m. Class of 1964: 1:55 p.m. Class of 1959: 2:00 p.m. MALS/MAT: 2:05 p.m.

All-Class Parade

2:10 p.m., Beginning at Ladd Dorm, West Entrance

Lucy Advice Booth

2-4 p.m., Quad The return of a fan favorite! Come by for advice on any topic. All ages and concerns welcome. Speed therapy, advice and counsel on love, career, sex, money, religion, sports, friendship, retirement, material possessions, Swedish death cleaning, Hygge, health, fundamental values, differences between belief systems, fate of the university, multiple dimensions, what to do, what not to do, and, of course, why. Southeast corner of the Quad. Saturday. 10 to 4. Bring 5¢. Caveat emptor.

Alumni Fundraising for Reed Donor & Volunteer Reception

2:30-4 p.m., Performing Arts Building A special reception and thank you for everyone who donated to Reed during the 2023-2024 academic year with a special thank you from President Audrey Bilger. *by invitation only

Calligraphy Wishing Tree with Gregory MacNaughton '89 and Su Liu '13

3-4 p.m., Trillium Multipurpose Room Calligraph a touching tribute to classmates who are no longer with us. Participants will have the option to hang their well wishes and fond memories on a "wishing tree" for all to share and remember. Open to all classes.

Sewing and Swearing Craft Hour with Emily Allen ‘19

3-4 p.m., Prexy Conference Room Do you enjoy some form of needlework? Do you enjoy swearing but hate it when your judgmental MIL glares at you because you said a bad word? Bring whatever project you’re working on, leave your judgmental MIL at home, and join us while we stab fabric with needles and curse a bunch. Any form of needlework is acceptable, and maybe we can all learn about new crafts together. Or just learn new curse words. Snacks will be provided, but needlework projects need to be brought.

Human Chess Game

3-5 p.m., Front Lawn It is what it sounds like. Whether you identify as a rook or a bishop, join us  for our annual game of Human Chess.

OutWright Play

3-5 p.m., PAB Black Box Theater Blonde on a Bum Trip is a backstage comedy that follows the trials and travails of pioneering trans actresses Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, and Jackie Curtis as they claw their way from off-off-Broadway theatre to Warhol superstardom. Penned by Portland's own Mikki Gillette, playwright of American Girl, BroadwayWorld's Best Play of 2023 (Portland).

Music From our Time at Reed, with the Class of '64

3:30-5 p.m., Capehart Lounge (enter through Winch Social Room) Gather to listen to and talk about some of our favorites from our time at Reed. We’ll have a playlist to select from that includes Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Tom Lehrer, Woody Guthrie, Rifkin’s Baroque Beatles, and others.

Geology of Reed and Eastside Portland: Earthquakes, Volcanos, and Catastrophic Floods

4-5 p.m., Eliot 314 Sign up at Prexy The serene Portland landscape surrounding the Reed campus has been shaped by catastrophic geological events — torrential floods of ice and lava, and eruptions of neighborhood volcanos. This presentation explores how this geology is visible to us today and how has it shaped the history of Portland and the college.  

Reed Canyon Oral History Sharing

4-5:30 p.m., Eliot 216 & walking Join us for a brief overview of the history of the canyon, and then share your own memories and stories as we wend our way through the gorgeous heart of campus.

MAT/MALS Book Club with Wally Englert

4-6 p.m., Aspen Multipurpose Room What’s a MALS gathering at Reed without a book club? Join us as Walter Englert, Professor of Classics and Humanities, Emeritus, guides us through "An Odyssey" by Daniel Mendelsohn. Open to MAT/MALS students and graduates.

Nü Ball Drop

5-6 p.m., Prexy Back Stairs Remember how Reedies used to rescue lost golf balls and pour them down Woodstock all at once? Those days are decidedly over, but the tradition lives on with ~BoUnCy BaLlS~. This commemorative Reed experience is family-friendly.

5-6 p.m., Cooley Gallery (inside the library) (Quietly) celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Zen movement at Reed by joining us for a meditation session in the Cooley Gallery. 

6-midnight, Quad

6-7:30 p.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Meal ticket must be pre-purchased when you register

Alumni Talent Show

7-9 p.m., Student Union Sign up at Prexy Do you sing? Do you dance? Would you like to read embarrassing entries from your high school diary? Sign up for a spot to show off your talent at the Alumni Talent Show!

Laser Light Show Extravaganza

9-10 p.m., Front Lawn Spread out across the ODB front lawn for an electric and flammable experience you won't forget!

Meat Smoke Surprise!

10-11 p.m., Quad Head back to the quad for savory treats thanks to Meat Smoke!

Stop Making Sense LIVE!

10:15 p.m.–late, Student Union Dance the night away at Stop Making Sense LIVE!

Sunday, June 9

Reunions check-out.

8 a.m.-1 p.m. Prexy House Return your dorm keys, swipe cards, and badges to Reunions staff at Prexy! Note: returning your keys is crucial! Replacing lost keys is a huge expense, and it may factor into increased dorm rates in the near future.

8-10 a.m., Commons Bon Appetit brings made-from-scratch restaurant style dining to Reed College, with a commitment to quality, innovation, social responsibility, and customer satisfaction. * Pay on your own

Getting Ready for our 50th – Classes of '75, '76, and '77 Breakfast

9-11 a.m., Eliot Faculty Staff Lounge

9 a.m.-2 p.m. Got old Reed clothing you no longer wear? The Reed Bookstore is looking for gently worn Reed logoed clothing! In exchange, you'll receive a 15% off coupon good towards your next piece of Reed clothing. Reach out to [email protected] " with any questions about this new program.

Alumni Relations & Volunteer Engagement

What if alumni could re-engage with Reed by studying the new Hum 110 syllabus, as current students are doing?

See the Syllabus

How Does it Work?

You will work your way through the syllabus of readings and lectures in small groups of 7–15, meeting once a month to be led by volunteer conference “leaders.” Reading groups can be based in person or virtually. They can be centered around existing friend groups, affinity groups, chapter regions, or any composition of Reedies! Groups have access to recordings of the same lectures provided to students and may choose to watch them together or on their own (see example formats below). Individuals may also choose to work through the curriculum on their own, without joining a facilitated group. Once a year, faculty from the Hum 110 curriculum will do a synchronous lecture for all alumni participating in the book club.

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Why Humanities 110?

Since 1943, Humanities 110 (Hum 110) has brought all first year students together to explore how people living in diverse historical contexts have engaged in fundamental questions about human existence. This shared learning experience also introduces students to the skills and habits of mind necessary for academic inquiry in their future work at Reed. In its current form, Hum 110 focuses on two broad contexts: the ancient Mediterranean world and North America from the early modern period to the twentieth century.

What Do We Study?

Over the course of three years, book club members will work their way through the current Hum 110 syllabus. The first year is divided into a sequence of units spanning ancient Sumer and Babylon, Pharaonic Egypt, ancient Israel and Yehud, the Persian empire, and the archaic and classical Greek city-states, particularly Athens. The second year examines Mexico, particularly the city of Tenochtitlan/Mexico City from the Spanish invasion to the twentieth century. The third year ventures into the United States, particularly Harlem in the 1920s.

• The construction and interrogation of boundaries and hierarchies.
• Narratives of creation, whether of the natural world or the social world.
• Heroic values, epic, and responses to them.
• The ways in which difference is constructed, utilized, and reframed.
• The relationship between democracy, citizenship, and exclusion.
• The relationship between truth, speech, and political power.
• Survivals, translations, and resistance in a colonial context, and the ways in which history, place and identity are continually created and re-created.
• The construction and narration of the modern nation state.
• The imposition of hierarchies of class, race and gender, and the ways they are negotiated and resisted.
• Modern literary and artistic forms of the Black diaspora, and the relationship between artistic creation and social and political transformation.

Sample Book Club Formats

• A Seattle chapter group meets in person once a month in their local public library’s conference room to discuss the readings for the month. They all agree to do the readings and watch the lecture at home beforehand.
• A friend group based in New York convenes at a rotating house each month to watch the lecture on the TV, then sit in the living room to host their conference.
• A freshman conference cohort from 1979 reunites to hold their book club via Zoom on the first Sunday of the month. They watch the lecture together through a shared screen, and then talk about the readings and the lecture together.
• A friend group that has scattered around the country meets up via Zoom to discuss the readings and lecture each month.
• A group rotates each month between meeting in person or via Zoom to discuss the readings and lecture in order to accommodate busy schedules and commutes.
• A host streams the lecture each month for the group because several individuals know that they will not watch it unless they do it together for accountability (just like skipping 9 a.m. lectures!), but the group meets in person to discuss the readings.
• A single person works through the readings for each month and watches the associated lectures while they make dinner.
• An alum parent of a current student works through the syllabus each month and discusses the concepts with their child during winter break.

Whether you already know exactly how you want to participate or would like a little assistance to figure that out, there’s a spot for you! Contact us with questions.