Schedule of Events

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Please check in at Reinhardt Alumnae House for registration. Event locations will be provided at check-in.

8:00 am–9:00 am
Reunion registration and full breakfast
Reinhardt Alumnae House

8:30 am–9:30 am
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Society and Cyrus and Susan Mills Society Breakfast (by invitation only)
Members of the Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Society and the Cyrus and Susan Mills Society are invited to an exclusive breakfast with President Janet L. Holmgren. The Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Society recognizes alumnae and friends who have included Mills in their estate plans, either through a bequest intention or a charitable lifetime income gift. The Cyrus and Susan Mills Society honors individuals who contribute $1,500 or more in a given fiscal year. For information on joining these societies, contact Alumnae Relations at alumnae-relations@mills.edu or 510.430.2123.

9:00 am–10:00 am
Landscape Heritage Tour
Join Bert Gordon, history professor, for a tour celebrating the disinctive architecture and landscape that helped Mills win one of 13 Campus Heritage grants from the Getty Foundation in 2006. As part of the grant, the College published Celebrating the Landscape Heritage of Mills College, a 159-page book filled with historical photos. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the end of the tour.

10:00 am–11:30 am
State of the College Address
Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren will provide an update on academic programs and student life at Mills College over the past year. AAMC President Anita Aragon Bowers '63 will fill you in on the latest activities of the Alumnae Association of Mills College. Class gift totals will be announced for classes ending in 4 and 9.

11:45 am–1:15 pm
Class Luncheon and AAMC Awards Ceremony
Gather with members of your graduating class for lunch and celebrate the hard work and commitment of all Mills alumnae. The third annual AAMC Awards Ceremony will honor three alumnae for outstanding service. Stephanie Mills '69 will receive the Distinguished Achievement Award for her visionary life's work on behalf of a healthier Earth and leadership in the ecology movement. Leone LaDuke Evans, MA '45, will take home the Outstanding Volunteer Award for her many years of extraordinary commitment and service in promoting the goals of the AAMC and the College through her history of service on the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees. The Recent Graduate Award will go to Angela Adams DeMoss, MA '99, for her enthusiasm and willingness to become involved in the activities of two southern California alumnae branches. She was recently elected president of the Los Angeles Mills College Alumnae branch.

1:30 pm–3:30 pm
Screening of EARTH DAYS
EARTH DAYS is a feature-length documentary about the origins of the modern environmental movement, told from the perspective of nine Americans who were inspired to act on their beliefs about the most important challenges facing humankind in their time. Watch the trailer or listen to an interview with the director (the link to the audio is directly below the video).

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is being released in theaters this fall. It uses interviews and archival footage toshow how activists, including Stephanie Mills '69, shifted Americans' consciousness about the environment, culminating in coast-to-coast rallies on Earth Day in 1970. Later in the decade, legislation was enacted to ensure clean air and water and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The work of the pioneers featured in EARTH DAYS informs today's embrace of the concept of sustainability, a word on the tips of tongues at Mills College and all around the world. The film also acknowledges missed opportunities and presents a cautionary tale about the backtracking that resulted from a change in the political landscape in the 1980s.

Right after the film, meet Stephanie Mills '69 at a book signing.

3:00 pm–3:30 pm
Tour of the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business
Opened at the start of fall semester, the 28,500-square-foot "green" building that houses the Lokey Graduate School of Business features dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows, a living green roof, and the latest in educational technology. See it first-hand during a tour with Campus Architect Karen Fiene. A second tour is available at 4:00 pm.

3:30 pm–4:00 pm
Book signing with Convocation speaker Stephanie Mills '69
After the screening of EARTH DAYS, Stephanie Mills will be signing some of her published works, which will be available for purchase:

• Whatever Happened to Ecology? (a memoir that includes reflections on some of her experiences at Mills College and her work in the ecology movement)
• Epicurean Simplicity
• Tough Little Beauties
• In the Service of the Wild

Read an interview with Stephanie Mills '69.

3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Tour of Mills College Art Museum
See the exhibition Pae White: In Between the Inside-Out with Sandra Percival, the exhibition’s curator. Demonstrating White’s inventive use of media from digital imaging to earthenware ceramics, this exhibition coincides with the artist’s participation in the 2009 Venice Biennale in Italy.

3:30 pm–5:00 pm
Financial and Estate Planning Workshop and Reception
It's never too early to start planning, and you're never too old to learn something! Experts Lauriann Delay and John L. McDonnell Jr. will help you start constructing a plan to meet your short- and long-term financial goals. A wine and cheese reception with the workshop leaders will follow.

3:30 pm–5:30 pm
Class photos for the Classes of 1959 through 2004
To be included in your class photo, be present with your class at the designated time below on the steps of Lisser Hall. This is a time to be recognized and to wear your class colors (see below). There will be no retakes, and the photographer will not wait for missing classmates. An assistant will take orders on the spot. Order forms will be handed out at registration. Please fill them out and have them ready before your class photo is taken. Class photos will be included in the fall 2009 issue of the Mills Quarterly. Photos of the Classes of 1934 through 1954 will be taken on Thursday beginning at 4:30 pm.

4:00 pm–4:30 pm
Tour of the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business
See description of 3:00 pm tour.

4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Writers' Salon
Browse and purchase novels, memoirs, biographies, thrillers, comics, and more by fellow alumnae/i who will discuss their works over wine and cheese. Participating writers include Kristen Baumgardner Caven '88; Arabella L. Grayson, MA '96; Theresa Willard Hughes '74; Anna Royal Nicholas '79; Joy Marie Nordenstrom '95, MBA '06; Lamberto Roque-Hernandez, teaching credential '04; Ruth Rymer '53; Romney "Nani" Steele '02, MFA '04; Diana Paxson Studebaker '64; and Virginia Cabot Wood '47.

6:00–6:30 pm
Class of 1959 photo
on the steps of Lisser Hall
(Class color blue)

6:30 pm–7:00 pm
Class of 1959 Cocktail Reception

7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Class of 1959 Dinner
We are pleased to honor members of the 50th Reunion class with a cocktail reception and a special dinner. Spouses or partners and guests are welcome to attend.

7:00 pm
Class dinners (off campus)
Enjoy dinner in the company of your graduating class. Reservations for individual class dinners must be made directly with class dinner coordinators. Refer to your special class gathering invitation, mailed separately from the printed Reunion brochure. Some classes have already determined the location of their dinners; these are listed below. If you do not know who your class dinner coordinator is or need or more information, contact Caitlin McGarty at cmcgarty@mills.edu or 510.430.2123.

Dinner locations have yet to be confirmed for the Classes of 2004, 1999, 1984, 1969, and 1944; if you belong to one of these classes, contact Caitlin McGarty at cmcgarty@mills.edu or 510.430.2123 for further information.

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