Jenny Edwards '89, Associate Director for Yale College Classes, gave a presentation on the recent renewal and reinvention of Yale College reunions. Yale College spring reunions are by far the largest single event of the AYA, with a large percentage of every class attending a reunion over the course of its life after Yale. Following Jeff Brenzel's arrival in 1998, the AYA performed a ground-up review of reunions from the early planning stages through evaluations & follow-up. With two years of "new and improved" reunions completed, feedback from alumni and campus partners has been very positive, and the AYA is fully committed to ongoing improvement in reunions as a whole.

The presentation covered the following topics:

• Yale reunion facts and figures

• Challenges of reunion programming

• Goals for reunions 1999 and 2000

• Steps taken in 1999 and 2000

• The "new and improved" AYA reunion program

• Reunion 1999 and 2000 results

• Reunions 2000: Lessons learned

• Reunions 2001 Objectives
  

A lively period of question and answer as well as further suggestions followed.

Following the close of the sessions devoted to the Assembly, many delegates had the chance to participate in an indoor tailgate before watching Yale football team defeat Columbia by a score of 41-0.