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Princeton Class of 1979 Home Page

Welcome to the NEW Website
for the Class of 1979

Our mission is to deepen the connections between our classmates, and with other Classes, the University, and the community. We encourage you to reach out to any of our Officers, for any issue, via the Contact links above.
--Your Class Officers
Reunions 2025 (our 46th) begins in 164 days:
May 22-25, 2025

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  • Upcoming Events
  • For the full Calendar, go to the Events page.  Priority Items  Save The Date Notes 
  • Sat, February 22, 2025 -- All Day Event
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    Allumni Day 2025
    The mid-winter celebration invites Princetonians to return to campus and reconnect with friends and fellow alumni, attend the annual Alumni Association luncheon at Jadwin Gymnasium and the Service of Remembrance at the Princeton Chapel, and hear from the Woodrow Wilson Award recipient and James Madison Medal winner. The Woodrow Wilson Award will be pre  
  • Fri, June 20, 2025 - Mon, June 23, 2025 -- All Day Event
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    Margaritaville At Sea Cruise to the Bahamas
    The Class of '79 sets sail again on a 3-day cruise! Join your classmates for fun, frolic, and sun on the high seas as we celebrate the 2025 Summer Solstice. We'll be boarding the Margaritaville at Sea Paradise at the Port of Palm Beach, Florida on Friday June 20, 2025, heading to Nassau, Bahamas, and returning on Monday, June 23rd. Bring your     
  • Tue, January 7, 2025, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Venture Forward all-alumni gathering with President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 -- in Austin, Texas
    President Eisgruber will continue his series of all-alumni Venture Forward campaign events in Austin, conversing with Gabe Debenedetti ’12, national correspondent for New York Magazine.  
  • Wed, January 8, 2025, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Venture Forward all-alumni gathering with President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 -- in Houston, Texas
    President Eisgruber will continue his series of all-alumni Venture Forward campaign events in Houston, conversing with Christopher Sarofim ’86, chairman of Fayez Sarofim & Co.  
  • SAVE THE DATE
    Thu, May 1, 2025 - Sun, May 04, 2025 -- All Day Event
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    Napa Valley Experience
    Dear Classmates and Friends, We are thrilled to invite you to a delightful trip to Napa Valley! This special weekend promises to be filled with wonderful memories, exquisite wines, and beautiful scenery. Highlights of the Trip: -- Lunch and Wine Tastings at Moone Tsai Vineyards: Enjoy an afternoon with our gracious hosts, Larry Tsai and hi  
Classmates In Print

See also the Classmate Publications page.
(Showing the most recent 8 publications)
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Reflections from the 45th Reunion -- Published: July 1, 2024
Vitus Lau - Letters - Author/Writer
In response to: Reunions 2024 Rises Above Sad Absence, Protests in PAW:
As a member of the Class ’79, I came of age during the Bill Bowen *58 years. It was a tumultuous time, a period marked by South Africa divestment petitions, student protests around Nassau Hall, coeducation, and the call for affirmative action.

President Bowen navigated th
 

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Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing" -- Published: February 24, 2024
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Written by Chauncey DeVega, extensively quoting John Gartner, attempting to make the case that it is Donald Trump and not Joe Biden who is 'profoundly unwell mentally and emotionally.' This was published 2/24/24 in Salon.  

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Housing Designs -- Published: October 1, 2024
Raphael Semmes - Letters - Author/Writer
Letter to the Editor regarding the architecture of the Meadows Neighborhood in response to the On The Campus item in the July/August 2024 edition of PAW. [This letter does not appear to be available online, but you can download the issue to read it on page 5.]  

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New Music Videos by Terry Silverlight -- Published: August 14, 2024
Terry Silverlight - Music - Author/Writer
See a collection of new music videos from Terry: Drum Words, Time For Kind, Forever With Love, Nature Rhythm and Old Friends. (Click News on the home page, then New Videos at the top.)  

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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out -- Published: June 20, 2024
Katherine Bucknell - Books - Author/Writer
A stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity. The story of Christopher Isherwood’s life is one of away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and spiritual illumination. Isherwood—the author of Goodbye to Berlin, which inspired Cabaret, and A S  

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142 Ways America Went from Sweet Land of Liberty to Weak, Woke, and Wobbly: A Reference Guide to the Biden Years -- Published: August 13, 2024
Robert Ehrlich - Books - Author/Writer
Now revised to include brand-new material, this handy reference guide to the most important presidential election in our lifetime takes the reader from the most notorious to the most sublime Biden administration–era failures. Written in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand style, this book will make you a more dangerous (more informed) voter.

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About That 'Protecting Democracy' Thing -- Published: August 10, 2024
Robert Ehrlich - Commentary - Author/Writer
A little more than four years ago, a Democratic Party desperate for a viable presidential candidate not named “Bernie” or “Elizabeth” turned to good ol’ “Amtrak Joe” to deliver the goods.

The mission: To “save” the country from President Donald Trump and his allegedly dangerous band (approximately 73 million of them) of “MAGA
 

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Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy -- Published: May 7, 2024
Naomi Cahn - Books - Co-Author
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce—why women’s progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.

In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in dec
 

Classmate News & Updates

See also the Classmate News pages.   

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Chris Moylan appointed to the Board of Directors of HART -- September 24, 2024
Chris reports that he has just been appointed to the Board of Directors of HART (Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation), the first train system in the state of Hawaii. Chris says he got his start in local government in California by being appointed to the Santa Clara County Transportation Commission, and it went on from there. He says "I  

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ECE chair responds to ‘Princeton’s Genocide Incubator’ article targeting professors’ research -- September 18, 2024
ECE Chair James Sturm defended the research programs targeted in the piece in an email sent Monday to the ECE listserv obtained by The Daily Princetonian. The inciting article, published on a new website run “in collaboration with student group Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest” (PIAD) claiming that University research labs are “genocide inc  

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Laurie Landeau Foundation endows the DNA Learning Center at CCNY College of Technology -- July 14, 2024
The Laurie Landeau '79 Foundation is the founding contributor to The DNA Learning Center at City Tech in Brooklyn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the City University of New York (CUNY) announce the opening of the DNA Learning Center NYC (DNALC NYC) at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, New York. The 18,000 square-fo  

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Andrew Houck ’00 is making quantum leaps to unlock a metaverse of possibilities -- February 29, 2024
There is an order to Andrew Houck’s office that isn’t apparent to the naked eye. Houck ’00, the Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative, is talking about the state of particles in objects, and how quantum science and engineering open a metaverse of pos  

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TigerTalks: Search Fund: An Alternative Path to Entrepreneurship -- February 28, 2024
Moderator: Don Seitz, ’79. A search fund is an investment vehicle in which the entrepreneur (or team) initially raises a small pool of capital from several investors to fund a search (of up to 24 months) for a suitable small business to acquire. Typically, these are usually a family business without a clear succession plan and/or in need of  

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Book Talk and Q&A with Simone Schloss '79 and Jeff Fuhrer '79 -- January 26, 2024
Join New York Public Library Business Librarian Simone Schloss '79 online Wednesday February 7 at 12-1:30PM as she hosts a Book Talk and Q&A with classmate Jeff Fuhrer '79, author of 'The Myth That Made Us,' on how false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have broken our economy, and what we can do to fix the system an  

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Class President Phil Hueber Hosts the Class of '52 Seminar -- on Maria Ressa's Book How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future -- October 25, 2023
Watch Phil, along with classmate Steve Matthews and Bob Jiranek '52, host the Class of '52 Seminar. This is the second time Phil has hosted, and he is now an Honorary Class of '52 Member! Watch the full hour long video at the link listed here.  

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Weezy Sams in the Daily Princetonian Email -- October 1, 2023
At the top of the daily email from The Daily Princetonian is our very own Weezy Sams, in some pretty good company! The article below looks into governance of the University and the history and backgrounds of the administrators. Take note of the section on salaries.