Mirror - Vol. 39, No. 01 - July 01, 2013

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The classes of 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008 crowded the Fairfield campus for Reunion Weekend from June 7 to 9. Leigh Tauss/77?e Mirror
Reunion Weekend draws a record number
By Leigh Tauss
Opinion Editor
The threat of torrential rain
couldn't stop a record number of
alumni from pouring onto campus
on Friday to Sunday, June 7 to 9, for
Fairfields annual Reunion Weekend.
More than 1700 Stags, young and old,
celebrated their time spent at Fair-field,
according to director of Alumni
Services Julie Tuozzoli '85.
For Friday night's festivities,
alumni gathered in local venues to
relive their glory days. The Seagrape
Cafe was as full as any Friday night
during the school year, complete with
a live band entertaining the members
of the class of 1988. Meanwhile, the
class of 2008 crowded The Levee and
enjoyed being served their beverages
by current students including FUSA
president Alex Long '14.
Members from the class of 1968
reminisced about their time at Fair-field,
before women were admitted
into the university in 1970. The group
got a httle rowdy recalling some of the
pranks they got away with as under-classmen.
Peter Maher '68 recalled an inci-dent
during a football game in which
they hijacked the opponents mascot
costume — an eagle — and staged a
mock fight against a stag mascot. The
fight ended with the eagle "crawling
on the floor" to the uproarious cheers
of Stags in the bleachers.
"That was my excuse to go back
to Fairfield every year," commented
Tony Labesky '68 on the now defunct
football team.
Not all Stags had the luxury of
being the pranksters, though. Dr.
Steve Schmitz '78 remembers going
back to his dorm one night in 1975.
"The room was empty," he said. "Our
friends had taken everything" and
moved it to the bathroom. "Even the
stereo was set up," he recalled with a
smile.
Laura Jennings Smith '78 re-membered
standing in line to get her
ID photo taken the first day of school
and "meeting that woman over there,"
she said, pointing across the densely
crowded dining hall, "who is still my
friend 30 years later." Seven out of the
eight girls living in their Campion
residence are still friends to this day.
Saturday afternoon's activities
included fun for the whole family at
the "Taste of Fairfield" food fair with
face painting, balloon animals and an
inflatable bounce house. The clouds
from the previous night had parted
and hundreds of alumni crowded on
the sunny Barone Campus Center
green. Adults enjoyed the variety of
beverages offered at the beer garden
as well as an array of food from local
vendors.
Later in the afternoon, approxi-mately
40 couples renewed their wed-ding
vows during the vow renewal
ceremony in the Egan Chapel of St.
Ignatius Loyola.
Jessica Welsh '98 said, "We got
married here almost five years ago so
we were excited to renew our vows"
and "reconnect with what got us to-gether."
The couple met the second
day of their freshman year.
Rev. Charles H. Allen, S.J., led
the vow renewal ceremony, which
including the gifting of a single white
rose. A mass followed with almost
250 in attendance.
The highlight of the weekend
for Mary Shubsda Agar '93 "was defi-nitely
the kids' activities." Her young
son in tow even asked, "Mom, can we
come next year?"
Unfortunately, he will have to
wait until 2018 to relive the experi-ence.
By then he may even be consid-ering
becoming a Stag himself.
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Two admin, moving on
Julie Dolan
VP of Finance and Treasurer
Stephanie Frost
VP for University Advancement
By Luigi DiMeglio
Managing Editor
Two top administrators are leav-ing
Fairfield this summer and have
accepted positions at other schools.
President Jeffrey P. von Arx,
S.J., announced on Wednesday, June
6, the departure of Vice President of
Finance and Treasurer Julie Dolan
and Vice President for University
Advancement Stephanie Frost.
After three years of service at
Fairfield, Dolan will move to Clark
University in Worcester, Mass. as
that school's new Executive Vice
President and Treasurer. She replac-es
James E. Collins at Clark, who is
retiring.
In the recent years, she focused
on developing a 10-year financial
prediction model that was support-ed
by analysis of undergraduate and
graduate programs and the restruc-turing
their resources. Before Fair-field,
Dolan held administrative and
financial positions at Vanderbilt Uni-versity,
Harvard University and Tufts
University.
According to Dolan, the posi-tion
at Clark University "was not one
I could pass up," even though she had
not planned on leaving Fairfield.
"It will also be much closer
to my family in New Hampshire,"
Dolan said.
Frost has accepted a position as
Associate Vice President of External
Affairs at Stanford University. She
served as Fairfields Vice President
for University Advancement since
the summer of 2006. Under her lead-ership,
the department has seen the
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RecPlex, to be renovated within four years. Screenshot
Construction Plans: What
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ook like in four years PAGE 4