Reunion Giving

Beginning mid-to-late summer each year, reunion class volunteers are busy calling, emailing and facebooking classmates to encourage reunion attendance and support for class reunion gifts. During homecoming weekend, this year November 3-6, the volunteers see, first hand, some concrete results of their good work. At the weekend class parties, they see, often for the first time in years, those they have contacted to "come back to the Mountain". In addition, they can take pride in the progress made towards their reunion class gift goals when totals to date are announced at the annual Alumni Awards Breakfast on Saturday. "Reunion giving represents an important part of the Sewanee Annual Fund," said Haynes Roberts C'2000, Director of Annual Giving, "and Homecoming provides us with a great opportunity to have a critical mass from the reunion classes together." All reunion class efforts are coordinated by terrific class chairs who lead a group of dedicated alumni class volunteers to encourage reunion attendance and support for the reunion class gifts.

While the Reunion campaigns continue until June 30, 2012, class members have already made or pledged $384,408 toward their goals. The Fiftieth Reunion Class has a 3-part goal: gifts to the Sewanee Annual Fund, a capital project--naming the dining room in a new Sewanee Inn--and planned or estate gifts.

If you are not ready to make a gift today but want to make a pledge, use our pledge page, http://give.sewanee.edu/giving/pledge/

To see the reunion giving record gifts, visit http://give.sewanee.edu/giving/saf/Record-Holding-Reunion-Classes

Percentage of Donors and Pledgers relative to overall class goal as of April 5th, 2012:

Dollars Given and Pledged relative to overall class goal as of April 5th, 2012

The following is breakdown of each class's progress as of May 10th, 2012.

Reunion classes of Homecoming 2011:

The Class of 2006
5th Reunion
Gift Chair: Katherine Flohr
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$7,795 toward a $10,000 goal
Class participation to date: 37% with a goal of 45% participation (23 donors needed)

The Class of 2001
10th Reunion
Gift Chair: Sev Carlson
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$16,702 toward a goal of $25,000
Class participation to date: 23% with a goal of 40% participation (57 donors needed)

The Class of 1996
15th Reunion
Gift Chair: John Wallace
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$19,143 toward a goal of $28,000
Class participation to date: 30% with a goal of 40% participation (27 donors needed)

The Class of 1991
20th Reunion
Gift Chairs: Laura Oppenheimer / Albie Dickson
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$57,465 toward a goal of $55,000
Class participation to date: 45% with a goal of 50% participation (12 donors needed)

The Class of 1986
25th Reunion
Gift Chair: Rob Johnson
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$50,471 toward a goal of $55,000
Class participation to date: 46% with a goal of 55% participation (18 donors needed)

The Class of 1981
30th Reunion
Gift Chair: Norman Allen
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$65,943 toward a goal of $75,000
Class participation to date: 53% with a goal of 70% participation (35 donors needed)

The Class of 1976
35th Reunion
Gift Chair: Robert Clark
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$50,842 toward a goal of $55,000
Class participation to date: 44% with a goal of 55% participation (23 donors needed)

The Class of 1971
40th Reunion
Gift Chair: Rob Crichton
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$55,424 toward a goal of $60,000
Class participation to date: 50% with a goal of 58% participation (12 donors needed)

The Class of 1966
45th Reunion
Gift Chair: 
Gifts and pledges raised to date:
$34,058 toward a goal of $40,000
Class participation to date: 55% with a goal of 52% participation (3 donors over)

The Class of 1961
50th Reunion
Gift Chair: Ernie Cheek
Sewanee Annual Fund-gifts and pledges:
$63,891
Class of 1961 project-gifts and pledges:
$1,306,200
Comprehensive total of all gifts raised:
$1,370,091