Preliminary Schedule of Events

11:00 am

Medical Alumni Writing Seminar

Workshop led by Dr. Deirdre Neilen and Dr. Rebecca Garden from Upstate's Center for Bioethics and Humanities. The winner of the Medical Alumni Writing Award will read the winning selection. Discussion on how creative writing can deepen the connections that link physicians, patients, and caregivers and provide them more control over suffering and illness.

Dean's Lunch (by invitation only)
For members of the Legacy Society* and Loyalty Society**

* Legacy Society recognizes those who provide a gift to the college of Medicine in their estate plans.

** Loyalty Society recognizes donors who have 15 or more years of consecutive giving or contributed $15,000 or more in lifetime gifts.

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Library Tours & Historical Exhibits

Class of 1958 10-year reunion

Take a walk down memory lane and relive your medical school days!  Visit our historical exhibits, where Elise Calvi, Curator of Historical Collections at the Health Sciences Library, will speak briefly about the exhibit and answer questions.  Guided tours of the Library will be held from 1:00-3:00, though you are welcome to view the exhibits and tour the Library anytime on Friday and Saturday.  

Do you have photographs from your school days that you would like to be included in our exhibit?  Contact Elise Calvi for details at (315) 464-4585 or calvie@upstate.edu.

Rediscovering the Class of 1885

Rediscovering the Class of 1885, a new exhibit at SUNY Upstate Medical University's Health Sciences Library, celebrates the recent discovery of 25 19th century portrait photographs. The exhibit offers glimpses of the lives of medical students in Syracuse in the late 19th century through photographs, medical instruments, student notebooks, exams and other original documents from the library's Historical Collections.

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Weiskotten Lecture
Ninth Floor Auditorium – Weiskotten Hall

Visioning Tibet, Melvyn Bert, MD '67

One-hour documentary by award winning documentary filmmaker Isaac Solotaroff about a team of American Ophthalmologists and their commitment to bringing and teaching modern
cataract surgery in Tibet.
Discussion led by Melvyn Bert, MD, Class of 1967. Ophthalmologist Marc Lieberman, founder of the Tibet Vision Project, examining a patient.

Reunion Awards and Scholarship Presentations
Ninth Floor Auditorium - Weiskotten Hall

Scholarship Reception
Hors d’oeuvres and Cocktails

All Class Party, Dinner Buffet
Ninth Floor Dining Room – Weiskotten Hall
Reminisce, dance, enjoy great atmosphere, food
and drink. Music provided by the Candlelight
String Quartet.

Dean's Breakfast and Annual Meeting
Ninth Floor Dining Room – Weiskotten Hall

Campus Tours

Barbeque at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Burnet Park

Class Dinners