Milwaukee-Downer College Reunion Weekend 2004
Lawrence Today magazine, Spring 2005
With the strains of their alma mater sounding in memory — “Here’s
a heart full of love for our college! / Our college, here’s to thee!” — 65
alumnae of Milwaukee-Downer College arrived on the Lawrence campus on October
8, for a weekend-long time of reuniting and reminiscing.
On
the schedule were tours of the campus, highlighted by but not limited to,
such Milwaukee-Downer sites as Lucia
R. Briggs Hall and the Milwaukee-Downer
Room in the Seeley G. Mudd Library. In the photo above,
tour guide Tracy Bos, ’05, introduces a group of alumnae to the Science
Hall Atrium and, in the photo at the left, Lin Schoder West, ’61,
and Joan Tomarkin Lucht, ’61, browse archival treasures of their
college in the Downer Room.
In addition to dinners, luncheons, receptions, and other occasions to be
reacquainted with classmates and friends, the weekend also included Alumnae
College classes taught by Lawrence faculty members, an “open office” session
with President Jill Beck, a Wriston Galleries art walk, and an afternoon
at the river with the Lawrence crew team for crew alumnae.
This was the first Reunion Weekend for Downer alumnae since their sesquicentennial
in 2001; the next all-alumnae reunion is scheduled for October 13-15, 2006.
For
many more photos from the Milwaukee-Downer 2004 reunion, visit this photo album.