Letter from reunion co-chairs
"Reconnect, Reunite, and Reimagine"
Since September, an amazing, creative crew of fifty of your classmates has been hard at work planning our upcoming time together in Cambridge. We have designed a series of events that we are confident will be fun, thought-provoking, and, to borrow the tagline from the HAA, provide opportunities to “Reconnect, Reunite, and Reimagine.” We hope you will join us!
If there is a thread running through the entries in the Red Book you will soon receive, it may be “reimagine,” or, as one classmate beautifully summarized, “In the next five years, I look forward to figuring out how I want to spend the next thirty years.” Our 40th Reunion gives us the opportunity to do that together. As classmates, we share friendships, a past, an educational demographic, and the experience of living in and through a particular time in history.
Reading through the Red Book, it is also clear that many of us are now sharing the experience of standing at an inflection point. There has been loss, there has been joy, there has been disappointment, there has been fulfillment. What’s next? To borrow a quote from Kierkegaard (whom, true confession, neither of us ever studied at Harvard, but why let that get in the way?) referenced by a classmate in his Red Book entry, “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
We have worked hard to create a Reunion guided by that idea, with space for reconnecting but also for new connections, for enjoying the pleasure and wisdom that can come from looking back, but with the goal of heading home inspired to live forward with energy and optimism.
And yes, there will be food, drink, and lots of dancing!
The sooner you register, the better. Generous financial assistance is available from the Class of 1983’s own funds to help enable all who wish to attend!
Jang-Ho Cha
Carol Jackson Cashion
Harvard/Radcliffe 40th Reunion Co-Chairs