News Release
May 2004
(Bethlehem, Pa.)—The Moravian College Alumni Association plans
an exciting schedule of events, celebrations, and entertainment for
Alumni Weekend on Friday, May 21, and Saturday, May 22. Following the
Reunion Luncheon on Saturday, the Alumni Association will honor Jeanne
Taccarino Guaraldo ’69, with its 2004 Medallion of Merit in recognition
of her outstanding service to Moravian College.
Taccarino Guaraldo has served as both advocate
and leader for the Moravian College Alumni Association. As alumni
board president she
participated in the selection process for President Rokke; served on
the Commission on the Future; and conceived of the Mardi Gras, now
a highly successful event for students, alumni and the college community.
As a Trustee, she passionately championed the value of alumni, and
helped to foster greater recognition of Moravian’s alumni.
During the last ten years, Taccarino Guaraldo has affected change
in almost every area of alumni programming while commuting from her
Wilmington Delaware home to Moravian consistently. As reunion chair,
she helped develop the existing reunion program, including the creation
of the annual reunion parade. As a past Alumni Association President
(1998-2000), she initiated the Past Alumni Board and Past Alumni Trustee
Club, a group of alumni leaders who meet yearly.
Taccarino Guaraldo has reached out to Moravian’s alumni in
numerous ways, speaking at a variety of events, serving as the class
of 1969 reunion chair, and participating as a member of the Major Gifts
committee. She also helped in the formation of alumni focus groups,
served as the Philadelphia Alumni Club treasurer, and chaired Moravian’s
2002 and 2003 Celebration Balls.
One of Taccarino Guaraldo lasting contributions
to Moravian College has been to initiate and co-direct the Women’s College Oral History
Project. She recruited alumni volunteers as interviewers, and coordinated
the collection of oral histories of the Women’s College alumnae,
to assure the preservation of the oral history of Moravian College
for Women.
Alumni Weekend will begin on Friday, May 21, at
10:00 a.m., offering Founder’s Day activities for the Women’s
College graduates. Program activities, for all alumni, feature an
alumni college course,
a campus tour of both campuses, another alumni college course, a block
party cookout to conclude at 9:00 p.m. with optional individual class
receptions and parties as planned.
Saturday, May 22, activities are: registration
at 8:30 a.m., followed by a continental breakfast buffet, the 50+
Club breakfast, and tours
of the Main Street campus. The day’s events will include Past
Presidents and Past Alumni Trustee meeting, the Alumni Association
Annual meeting, a reunion parade and luncheon, photos, optional individual
reunion gatherings, Young Alumni Board meeting, a mini college course,
an alumni mini course, Main Street campus tours, Omicron Gamma Omega
photo and annual meeting, a presentation by Franklin Hills Vineyards*,
reception, and dinners for individual classes or clusters of classes.
Finally the weekend’s festivities will wrap-up with delicious
desserts and dancing in the Haupert Union Building.
The Alumni courses are new menu items and food
for thought: “The
Economics of Sports” by Peter von Allmen, “Inside the College
Rating Game” by Bernie Story ’80, “The Moravian Roots
of Moravian College” by Otto Dreydoppel ‘74, and the Winery
Seminar by Franklin Hill Vineyards.
For the schedule of events visit: http://www.moravian.edu/alumni/events.htm.
For those alumni who can’t make it back to campus, the College
will use the Web to post a “virtual alumni weekend.” The
site will include real time (almost) photos and information of alumni
weekend events and activities at www.moravian.edu/alumni/aw.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts
college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to
1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. Visit the
Web site at www.moravian.edu.
