march 2004

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New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni

Gordon

Richard Chase
For the School’s most senior graduates, the new 1908 Society is a wish come true. In focus groups, they voiced a clear desire for more opportunities to get together. The 1908 Society’s chief function is to honor that request by inviting every HBS graduate who has reached the 60th Reunion mark back to campus each fall for a reunion.

“It is wonderful that HBS is giving special recognition to its senior alumni with the formation of the 1908 Society,” says 102-year-old Albert H. (“Al”) Gordon (MBA ’25). “I am proud to be the chair of the Society, and I look forward to our first annual reunion this fall. Nothing will please me more than attending many more Society reunions.”

The Society’s reunions will include special programming and social opportunities patterned after the traditional five-year reunion celebrations. All graduates of classes that have reached the 60th Reunion are charter members of the Society. Each year, a new class will be inducted. More than sixteen hundred invitations have gone out to graduates for the inaugural 1908 Society reunion, September 30–October 1, 2004.

The traditional five-year reunions for senior alumni — the 60th, 65th, and 70th reunions — will continue to take place, with class events on Friday evening and Saturday morning.