Get Back 4.5 Post-Reunion News
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TOP HITS & UPCOMING EVENTS
We are halfway between our 45th and 50th Get Back Reunions. Do you miss the stimulation of gathering with classmates now that our reunion is over? There are lots of ways to Get Back and engage with classmates, as we move forward through our Next Chapters and on toward our 50th Reunion, June 2-6, 2027. Why not start now?
Upcoming HR77 Next Chapters Personal Reflection Discussions (PRDs)
It’s the time to sign up for a new groups of PRDs --being offered from late January to late April 2025. PRDs are individual small group discussions. They provide an opportunity to share experiences, perspectives, and insights with classmates around issues of particular interest and resonance. These are unrecorded and the content and direction of each conversation is largely determined by the classmates participating in them.
There are a wide range of new topics to entice you! For detailed descriptions and instructions on how to register, click HERE.
- Pivot North: From Strength to Strength
- Dealing With Loved Ones Who Need Our Constant Support
- Shakespeare in Our Own Voices
- Feeling Free
- Talking Pictures
- Let’s Have the God Talk
- Feeling Free
- Serving on Boards
- Developing a Wine Collection
- “Life Gave Us Lemons, and We Made Lemonade”
- Figuring it Out: Contemplating and Adjusting to Retirement and/or Other Life Changes
- “I Knew I Was Getting Older When…”
- Living Well–But Where, When, How, & With Whom?
- Networking Over the Years: How Has the Meaning Changed, and What Do We Seek From It Now?
- Figuring it Out: Contemplating and Adjusting to Retirement and/or Other Life Changes
New All-Class Zoom Opportunities
Speaking of new chapters, our classmates Megan Marshall and Gish Jen are both publishing new books in 2025 with “Next Chapters” themes. Their new books will be at the center of two separate all-class Zoom events in 2025.
- On April 15 at 4pm ET, join our classmates Megan Marshall and Gish Jen in the first of two conversations about their most recent books, Megan’s After Lives and Gish’s forthcoming Bad Bad Girl, both of which look back at personal and family history, the shaping of self and vocation. As we enter our seventies, many of us are taking stock, making peace with choices made and not made, making sense of where we’ve come from and where we’ve landed (and wondering if we have!). Writing can help. In this 90-minute program you can listen to Megan and Gish speak about how writing their books brought new understandings, ask them questions, and stay for informal small-group conversations with classmates. All registrants will be given a link to an excerpt from Megan’s After Lives, if they’d like to read a portion of the book in advance. To register for the April 15 Zoom, click HERE.
- In a second program, to be held in November on a date yet to be determined, Gish and Megan will turn to Bad Bad Girl, Gish’s tenth book and first autobiographical novel, which tells how history and sexism shaped both her mother’s life and hers, and how her discovery of writing at Harvard enabled her to make peace with a painful legacy.
We hope you’ll enjoy reading and discussing the two books with their authors and our fellow classmates. If you have other ideas for book topics, email joanssoble.ed@gmail.com.
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45th HR77 Longitudinal Survey Results
You can watch the recorded video of the 1/25/23 presentation of the updated results from our 45th Reunion's Study. We gathered by Zoom on January 25, 2023 to discuss updated study results. The session focused on three of the most provocative questions raised by data:
- How are our lives, priorities and values changing as we move ever deeper into this next chapter in our lives?
- How has the life experience of women in our class differed from that of men, and why?
- How are we coming to terms with the "ultimate" questions, such as our mortality, legacies, and spirituality?
To view the recorded session, click HERE and the presentation slides, clickHERE.
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SAVE THE DATE
Get Back 5.0, June 2-6, 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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As always, we'll leave the Get Back lights on:
- Bookmark us at https://1977.classes.harvard.edu/ for all the latest Get Back 4.5 news.
- Check us out in the Metaverse at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1977GetBack.
- Any questions - please contact Andrew Vincent and our HAA Reunion Team at 45thReunion_HAA@Harvard.edu or by phone at 617-496-7001 (9AM-5PM Eastern).