{"id":5487,"date":"2025-04-08T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:46:39","slug":"class-of-1970-reunion-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/2025\/04\/class-of-1970-reunion-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 1970 Reunion Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--normal\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper site-section__inner--top-padding-none site-section__inner--bottom-padding-none\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t data-livetext>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__wysiwyg-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content \"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-index=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-autop=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-name=\"column_content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear 1970 Classmates,<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are invited to join us to celebrate our 55<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reunion at St. Olaf College during the weekend of Friday May 30 to Sunday June 1, 2025. After our abbreviated 50<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reunion, we will now have the time to experience the joy and excitement of a full weekend on the Hill.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Olaf offers many fun and interesting <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">activities on campus for all and then specific events for each class<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We will begin with a Friday night toast and social gathering. Saturday will include a class lunch, a memorial service for our 91 classmates who have passed, a tea with President Singer, and an evening dinner.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our 50<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reunion theme was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRemember \u2013 Reflect \u2013 Renew.\u201d And we will do that!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We will have time to talk and laugh, share fond memories, and discover the interesting lives people have lived. We will see new and refurbished buildings on campus tours and listen to professors\u2019 talks. If you haven\u2019t been back for a while, you will be amazed. As a college, St. Olaf and its students are thriving!<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accommodations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include shuttles (golf carts) to conveniently transport you around campus and dorm rooms in the air-conditioned new Ytterboe Hall.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/2025-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check the website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to register and see the complete calendar of activities. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early bird pricing is available until April 10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We, the 55<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reunion Volunteer Committee, are busy planning our 1970 class events. Contact us if you have ideas or questions.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We hope to see you in May at St. Olaf. Know that we will be there to welcome you!<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fram Fram,<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Class of \u201970 Reunion Committee<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martha Anderson, Virginia Bergquist Bowles, Barbara Evans, Kristin Kinney Hays, Jack Kemme, Marilyn Rand Kemme, Paul Meierding, Dennis Nelson, Marybeth Davis Nelson, John Pain, Bryce Willett<\/span><\/i><\/h5>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn--lg\" href=\"https:\/\/stolaf.events.alumniq.com\/go\/reunion25\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register for reunion<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid__col -->\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid, .site-grid__wrapper -->\n\t<\/div> <!-- site-section__content -->\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reunion","tag-12"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CwLt-1qv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/reunion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}