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Reunion Details (as planned)

Friday, Sept. 30

Noon to 2:30 pm or later. Private Reunion Lunch for Our Class, Marion Jackson House (headmaster's house), 212 Duck Pond Road, Locust Valley. Bill Morris, Head of School, is our host. George Cadwell and John Galbraith share MC duties. No cost. Please RSVP by September 23 to Alex Edwards-Bourdrez at (516) 465-1796 or alex_edwards-bourdrez@fa.org

  • "FA Then and Now", an illustrated show on the evolution of FA since our days there -- physically, academically, athletically, and culturally -- presented by Alex Edwards-Bourdrez
  • Poetry by your classmates
  • Moment of Silence for Jack Dempsey, Jim Lapham, Gordon Linder, Patsy Powers and Bruce Whiteley
  • Story Time: share your recollections of your experiences at FA, of your classmates, and of your teachers
  • BYO Stuff: share your drawings, paintings, sculptures, photos, writings, music, and other things you've made in your leisure or professional time
  • Photo Montage: 50s photos of FA and of us, from FA's archives. Mounted by Mary Ann Reardon, FA's Archivist
  • 1950s music
  • Table-hopping for dessert (to increase interaction)
  • Great conversation: find out how your classmates' personal stories played out over the last half century, ruminate on the great lessons of life, swap tips on retirement and how to get the most out of this stage of life, share plans for the future, discuss the world that your children and grandchildren are inheriting, and more.

After lunch. Private Tour for Our Class

Find out what happened to the buildings and places we knew, see the remarkable physical transformation that has taken place, and hear about plans for the future.

After the tour. 1950s Archives, FA Library, hosted by Mary Ann Reardon, Friends Academy Archivist
  • Examine at leisure FA's photo and memorabilia treasures from the 1950s, selected and arranged especially for your enjoyment.
  • Request a scan or copy of any item that you’d like to add to your personal or family collection.
6:00 to 8:00 pm. Headmaster's Reception, Marion Jackson House

A posted list of reunion attendees by graduation year and decade-color-coded name tags will make it easy for you to find people you’d like to meet.

Any time after 7:00 pm. At Home With Owen and Bernadette Smith (Mayknoll, 12 Glenwood Road, Roslyn, NY 11576, 516-621-9332). Directions available at the luncheon and below. Map attached at the very bottom of this page.

Relax with cocktails and a buffet dinner at Owen and Bernadette's lovely waterfront estate. Continue the conversation as long as you like.

Directions from Friends Acaemy: Duck Pond Road to Glen Street, Glen Street South (left) which becomes Glen Cove Road. Right at the Nissan Dealer (under the RR trestle). Left on Glen Cove Avenue which becomes Bryant Avenue. The first light (a fork) is Glenwood Road. Right on Glenwood Road, take the second driveway on the left. The sign says "Mayknoll".


Saturday, Oct. 1

10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Fall Fair and Homecoming

  • Food, games, rides, booths galore, football, hockey, and soccer games, an alumni tent, and more
  • Meet students, faculty, administrators, parents, and other members of the Friends community.
  • Continue the conversations you started yesterday, and start new ones.
  • The Alumni Tent will be our main gathering place.  Optional rendezvous times there will be announced for breakfast, lunch, and the football game. Those who prefer instead to spend private time with classmates, or to enjoy the variety of opportunities offered by Fall Fair, are welcome to do so.
  • Join one of the campus tours if you would like to hear a different perspective on some of what you saw yesterday, or revisit on your own the spots you found of particular interest.

7:00 pm Cocktail Reception and Dinner Dance 8:00 to 11:00 pm. Brookville Country Club, 210 Chicken Valley Road, Old Brookville. The cost is $85 per person (a rate subsidized by FA). Reservations required; RSVP by September 23. Remit check payable to "Friends Academy" to Alex Edwards-Bourdrez, Alumni Office, Friends Academy, 270 Duck Pond Road, Locust Valley 11760 (or reserve and pay online at www.fa.org). This is the only cost for reunion other than travel and lodging! Directions available at the Alumni Tent, maps in the above link.

Our class will have its own tables. More engaging conversation.


Sunday, Oct. 2

10:00 am. Meeting for Worship, Matinecock Meeting House

Revisit one of the truly unique experiences of our years at FA. We'll designate a gathering place beforehand.

After worship. Farewell Alumni Reception

Your chance to bid goodbye to everyone other than your classmates.

11:30 am. Informal Farewell Brunch at Joan and George Hawkins' Home (93 Walnut Road, Glen Cove, NY 11542, (516) 676-6746).  Click here for an interactive map showing the location (go almost a mile and a half West from FA on Duck Pond Road, turn right onto Walnut Rd.).

We’ll bid farewell to each other and to FA until our next return or smaller rendezvous.


Maps Showing FA

Restaurants Near FA (Zagat ratings)

Where to Stay

It may also be possible to stay with classmates who live in the area. Contact Joan if you would be interested in that.

Four Good Reasons to Attend This Reunion

1. During our High School years we formed bonds that are mostly laying dormant owing to geographical dispersion and the demands of career and family. Those bonds will rejuvenate on sight, adding joy and warmth to our hearts. We will carry this experience with us to the ends of our lives, as has been proven by other people at other reunions. There will be no 100th Reunion. This is the last Big One.

2. As high-school classmates, we occupy a very special place in each other’s early memories and even in each other’s developed personalities and character. We were fellow travelers during the critical passage from protected child to college-bound youth, when the whole world was opening before to us like a flower. We helped to shape one another during those years when we were so malleable. None of us looks anything like we did in 1955, but the essence that made each of us unique then is still there and still can be savored. Come and meet once again those who helped to shape you.

3. We’re all pretty much at the same stage of life, and will benefit from talking about the old and new interests we’re supposed to have more time for now, about how best to make the passage to retirement and get the most out of it, about how best to nurture our grandchildren and younger family members, how to simplify life, and how we can make a bigger difference to our communities, favored causes, and country.

4. Let us see for ourselves how FA has evolved over the last half century physically and in other ways, and consider how possibly to help others gain the kind of advantages we enjoyed.

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