We are a year and a half away from 50th Get Back Reunions. We are thrilled to share that planning is officially underway for HR77 Get Back 5.0—and our goal is simple: to get everyone back for the best 50th Reunion ever. Look for upcoming announcments on how we will make it easy for everyone to say yes and attend. Think of it as Destination: HR77 Get Back 5.0!

  

We need your help. We’ve lost touch with many classmates, and HAA records are not complete. Click HERE to download a list of the 300 classmates without emails and many missing postal addresses. Please forward this email to class friends so they can hear the fun news and click here to update their HAA profile. If someone prefers to not engage with HAA, they can share their information directly with Andrea Riedy andrea.p.riedy@gmail.com, who maintains our private HR77 class list.

 

So—have you penciled in all the days yet?  Destination: HR77 Get Back 5.0, June 1st through 4th, 2027

 

And if you miss the stimulation of gathering with classmates until our reunion, there are lots of ways to Get Back.  Engage now with classmates, as we move forward through our Next Chapters and on toward our 50th Reunion.  Click on any of the HR77 website TABS (shown above) for topics you might enjoy.  Why not start now?

 

CLASSMATE UPDATES

 

A BRAVA for Pamela Hogan, Director of Cliffe Notes: Stories from the Radcliffe Class of 1975

 

Our Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan ’77 directed Cliffe Notes: Stories from the Radcliffe Class of 1975, an acclaimed documentary created in collaboration with the leaders of the Radcliffe ’75 Oral History Project.

 

The film captures the unique experience of HR75 women at a pivotal moment in the Harvard–Radcliffe merger. They were the last class of women to live together in the Radcliffe Quad freshman year, among the first to live in Harvard housing thereafter, and the last under the 4:1 men-to-women quota.

Weaving together archival footage with excerpts from more than 100 classmate-conducted Zoom interviews, Cliffe Notes premiered at HR75’s 50th reunion in June 2025.

 

It is now screening for Harvard and Radcliffe alumni worldwide (check with your local Harvard Club), and starting this fall will be a permanent part of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women’s digital collection. As we move closer to our own 50th Reunion in June 2027, we’ll schedule a Zoom Gathering with Pam, including clips of the film!

 

A Hearty HR77 Chicago Cheer for Alan Garber

 

On September 15, 2025, our classmate and Harvard President Alan Garber joined the Harvard Club of Chicago and the Harvard Alumni Association for a moderated conversation, celebrating among other things his return to his birth state of Illinois (Alan was born in Rock Island). Our Chicago classmates proudly raised the HR77 banner in his honor!

Left to right in photo: Jeff Kang, Tom Manning, President Garber, Chuck Bergen, Jim Thomas, Eric Larson, John Challenger.

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SAVE THE DATE

 

Get Back 5.0, June 1-4, 2027

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 Want other ways to engage in HR77 Get Back activities as we move toward our 50th reunion?

 

  • Continue to visit our HR77 website for updates and announcements.
  • View Zoom Gathering recordings of pre-reunion or Saturday, June 4th sessions you missed.
  • Visit Stories 4.5 Vimeo Showcase to reflect on the ways our classmates express themselves creatively. And please consider adding your own video about what motivates you
  • Under the Program tab, follow topic-specific webpages of Next Chapters in our Society — for continued engagement opportunities.
  • Visit our HR77 Get Back 4.5 Photo Booth to see a collection of classmate pictures from the Reunion, sorted by event. You will need your Harvard Key to access it (for assistance https://key.harvard.edu/).
  • Join our Get Social HR 77 Facebook page for classmate news.
  • Look back at the June 2-5, 2022 reunion schedule and events.

  

  HAVE fun!

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