Class of 2010 10th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 2010

Kick off the first official night of reunion catching up with friends while enjoying our Friday happy hour followed by barbeque-themed dinner. You won’t want to miss the delicious steak, pulled pork, grilled chicken,  seared portobello, and the full open bar!

Following dinner  spend more time reconnecting with ’10 friends and guests for chatting, dancing, and drinking. The bar will be open until 1am.

Join us on Old Campus for a morning practice that will leave you feeling aligned with your younger years. We'll use breath work, physical practice, and meditation to ground back into Yale and get you ready to greet the day. A time of reflection and resonance with what has come to pass. You'll leave ready to re-connect with classmates and this special space. No previous yoga experience necessary; children and all ages welcome.

Akhil Reed Amar '80, '84 Law, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

From George Washington forward, America’s presidents have occupied center stage in the nation’s public life; and the present moment is no exception. In this reunion session – more an open-ended conversation with alums than a highly structured lecture – Professor Amar will discuss several of the biggest constitutional questions in today’s headlines.

Professor Amar is a Yale Alumni Association Howard R. Lamar Faculty Award recipient for 2017.

Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 30 participants.

Paul Berry '99, '07 PhD, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music, Yale School of Music

Before broadly-marketed popular music diverged irrevocably from what we now call classical music, Franz Schubert composed songs that still define the genre today. For everyone from Brahms and Ravel to Aretha Franklin and Kendrick Lamar, song remains as Schubert conceived of it: poetry and music fused into emotional landscapes more distinctive and compelling than either words or tones could create alone. Through the emotional landscapes in these songs, we are drawn outside our own experience and encouraged to inhabit perspectives foreign to our own. This lecture uses several of Schubert's greatest songs to consider the varieties of empathetic experience that music offers to listeners and performers alike.

Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours run continually to 11:15 am.

Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.