E-Newsletter

Fifty years of life—how do you get started on a conversation to explore where our journeys from that shared four-year experience in Northfield have taken us?

In this section of the newsletter, we’ll get the conversation started with reflections shared by classmates in planning-committee outreach calls. 

Thanks to all of you who have taken our One-Minute Surveys!  Here is some of what we have learned.

Wondering how to approach your BioBook entry?  Steve Bayne has some suggestions.

The friendships made during our college years run deep and true, strong enough to bridge the years.  Let’s seize this opportunity to laugh and reflect together, to share our stories, and to honor the institution so influencing our lives.

Click on the video below:  Theatrical Trailer: The Class of 1968 Returns, by Eric Janus

Easy steps for getting started:

First step is to sign into our webpage: go.carleton.edu.   A login is required to access some of the material: you know your first and last name so it is easy!  Log in with your username: first 7 letters of your last name followed by the first letter of your first name, underscore 1968 (e.g. for Tom Fabel: fabelt_1968, and for Renae Gustafson: gustafsr_1968); give yourself a password and you are in.

Need help?  Here’s who to contact for assistance: 

• 50th Reunion office:  (Mary Niebur) 866-208-3889 or 50thReunion@carleton.edu
• Alumni Relations Office: 800-729-2586 or alumni-office@carleton.edu

Second step is to immense yourself in memory:

• Remember the Zoo Book?  Check it out and chuckle at the memories it stirs!  
• Look through the Algol and savor our times together through graduation. 
• Then go to the 25^th Reunion Bios written at the half-way mark.

Third step is to share your life in our 50^th Reunion Bio Book

• What are your life’s milestones, its joys or the wisdom gleaned from your perspective today?
• Be creative, color outside the lines, do your 50^th Reunion Bio any way you like!

Read your friends’ entries! 

You will need to log in with your Carleton username and password to access your classmates’ bios.  

See who is planning to come to the 50^th Reunion and add your name to the list of Who is Coming to the 50^th Reunion.

Join us June 14-17, 2018 for in-person laughter and conversations, classmate talks and panel discussions, faculty lectures, campus strolls, hikes in the arb and town explorations!  Registration Opens one year from now!

Whether you are a frequent or infrequent reunion attendee, the 50^th Reunion can be a “must do” on your calendar!  Steve Bayne, Kathy Klobe Matthew, Andy Selden and the 50^th Reunion Planning Group want you to attend and invite your participation in creating a vibrant, meaningful and fun 4 days back on campus. 

Read more: January letter to classmate

View some candid pictures on our gallery page here.

How to make it easy to strike up conversations quickly when we return to campus?  To reconnect now with good friends?  Our Bios for sure, but what else?  Through some early contact in a “private, closed” Facebook, page for ‘68 Carls?  Through links to individuals’ web pages?  YouTube creations?  Publications?  Let us know your ideas and we will try to make it happen. 

Send us photos for our ever-changing montage of classmates then and now (Eric Janus: ejanus@msn.com)

The first One-Minute Survey focused on several possible reunion activities. Watch for more surveys…your ideas are needed!  Or contact any of the Planning Group members.