Class of 1965
Alumni Reunion Weekend 2025
Join us for an extraordinary celebration to reconnect with our beautiful campus, reminisce with old friends, make new ones, and celebrate DePauw University.
The Class of 1965 is invited to save the date for Alumni Reunion Weekend 2025, scheduled for June 5-8, 2025, to celebrate your 60th reunion. More details will be available in the coming months on this class page and on the Alumni Reunion Weekend main page!
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Esteemed Fellow ’65 Classmates,
It approaches…oh, yes, it does…our 60th reunion at our beloved alma mater. Your dedicated reunion committee, signed below, has been laying some groundwork, with the invaluable help of Zaida Benassi at the Alum Office, for our getting together to celebrate this monumental milestone. We hope to engage with current students, to become acquainted with new construction on campus, and to become reacquainted with our favorite memory filled spots. We hope, as well, to facilitate engagement on topics of interest to us octogenarians.
Our plan, thus far, is to gather in the fall of 2025. You are all most welcome to attend Alum Weekend, June 5-8, 2025, but, for our class reunion, we choose to reunite when the campus is less crowded and when students are there. We think best will be to arrive on a Tuesday and depart on Friday. You might be asking what the date of this auspicious gathering might be…we don’t yet know. With the University’s help, we’ll find a week, between mid-September and mid-October, 2025, when our being on campus would be most compatible with DePauw’s schedule. We hope to have more information in early 2025. Please know that, whatever our chosen week, there will be a block of rooms reserved at the Inn for our class. We will also have information on surrounding accommodations.
Need we tell you how much your presence for our 60th would be appreciated? What makes our reunions successful, what brings delight to all participants, is the camaraderie of folks we met just as we were embarking on our futures, knowing we were well prepared by our university to succeed.
With hopes of raising a goblet with you in ’25,
Bruce Bondurant, Mercedes Condy, Rick Ferrell, Valerie Watson Hamilton,
Vin Hoey, Sarah Roberts Houghland, Tom Porter
Reunion dates for Fall 2022!
The Class of 1965 continued to celebrate with the ongoing enthusiasm and drive of their reunion committee. In continuing the tradition - San Marco Island, Chicago, Santa Fe - plans were developed to meet once again in Washington, D.C., with an invitation to regional DePauw alumni beyond the class of 1965 as well. With the steering committee in place, planning quickly took off for the class.
The class had the opportunity to explore historical sites all over the area, including the Supreme Court, Capitol Building, Portrait Gallery, Newseum, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A detailed outline of the itinerary from the weekend in D.C. can be found below.
The Class of ’65-- after celebrating a grand 50th Reunion-- continues to celebrate. Your reunion committee came together in Empire, Michigan last October and decided we couldn’t let the camaraderie and fun die. After generating some ideas, we proposed them to you in a letter, and then discussed them at a breakfast gathering of classmates on San Marco Island, Florida in January. A group of us had decided to attend DePauw’s annual January gathering of trustees, Alumni Board members and interested friends. The University provided both a splendid day of programs and the venue for the breakfast. From that discussion, we formulated some of the plans for Chicago-- our first official post-reunion event.
