EVENTS


Face-to-face events are a vital way the Alumni Association builds community and connection. T is year the Association hosted 31,844 attendees at more than 900 events—including 164 MIT150 celebrations.


Record Reunion Crowd Caps MIT150 Celebrations


Unprecedented, spectacular, exciting—that sums up Tech Reunions 2011. A record- breaking attendance of 3,874 alumni and guests enjoyed reunion festivities and the sesquicentennial fi nale, Toast to Tech. T e senior class set a record for donors with 76 percent making gifts, and reunion classes announced $60 million in gifts.


At Tech Night at the Pops, Tom Scholz ’69, guitarist from the rock band Boston, joined conductor Keith Lockhart to play some of his band’s greatest hits. Mezzo- soprano Stephanie McGuire ’96 wowed the crowd with selections from Carmen and Candide, as well as the classic “In Praise of MIT.”


The Class of 1961 led the Commencement march into Killian Court. Facing page, clockwise from top leſt : Mezzo-soprano Stephanie McGuire ’96 sings with Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart at Tech Night at the Pops; Toast to Tech fi reworks illuminate the great dome; President Susan Hockfi eld cuts the 750-pound sesquicentennial cake created in the images of MIT campus buildings; reunion giſt chairs and MIT Alumni Association leaders salute MIT’s sesquicentennial; Sloan School Lecturer Anjali Sastry ’86, PhD ’95, leſt , poses with reunion committee members D’Juanna White-Satcher ’86, Carl Tung ’86, and Kim Hunter ’86 at the 25th reunion brunch; a festive, 40th reunion dinner off ered a view of the Boston skyline to class offi cers on the Media Lab deck.


Saturday’s Technology Day off ered talks on Doers and Dreamers: 150 Years of Inventing the Future, which you can watch online.


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