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With 410 returning alums from the Class of 1937, this year's 50th reunion is the biggest ever, says Charlie N. Gregg '88-'89, housing coordinator for the major reunions. Finding rooms for this class can be difficult, organizers say, because they try to house the classmates on lower floors, and near the reunion headquarters at Winthrop House...
...addition, more than 100 special menus were prepared for 50th reunion-goers as well as for the first grade children of the alumni returning for the 25th reunion. Older guests "can't have anything that they really need to chew," and younger ones are served simpler meals like chicken fingers, Hennessey said...
Next week the Bay Area celebrates the Golden Gate's 50th anniversary as one of the engineering marvels of the world. Just after dawn Sunday, thousands of pedestrians will stroll across its 4,200-ft. span, repeating a similar parade that took place at the bridge's inauguration in 1937, when 200,000 celebrators paid a nickel apiece for the privilege of walking across the bridge on its first day. Those opening ceremonies, which included a flyover by 450 planes from three aircraft carriers, ended up $70,000 in the red. In these more extravagant times, expenditures for the golden...
American members of the 50th class of Nieman Fellows will bring eight men and four women to Harvard for a year of study, University officials announced...
...Nieman Foundation plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary in the spring of 1989 with a weekend of symposia and festivities. Simons said the celebration will be delayed because the presidential campaigns of the preceding year will occupy most of the nation's top journalists...