All-Class Party: Alumni exchanged stories of old times and caught up with one another at a class-wide party at the new Midway Club (above and below). The evening also featured the cool sounds of the Kobie Watkins Quartet.

ALUMNI EVENTS
Reunion 2000
Alumni, faculty, and friends of the school gathered for the annual class reunion in late May. More than 200 people attended events on campus and downtown, including participants who returned to Chicago from 20 countries. In the evening, an all-class party brought together alumni from 1950, 1960, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1995, and 1998 at the Midway Club. There was a career management workshop, a wine tasting, a Dean’s update, a comedy performance by Peter Bernstein, ’85, and a Chicago architecture boat tour. Class dinners at famous Chicago restaurants capped the reunion. New features this year included a tour of the Oriental Institute and activities for children. Reunion weekend kicked off with the 48th Annual Management Conference on May 19. This year’s conference focused on the intersection of business and technology and featured a keynote address by George Conrades, XP-28 (’71), chairman and CEO of Akamai Technologies. To read a profile on Conrades, see “The Thrill of the Next Big Thing.” For more on the Management Conference, see “E-Commerce and the Future of Finance.”--E.T.

Mixing Business and Pleasure: Roman L. Weil (right), co-chairman of the International Oenonomy Society and V. Duane Roth Professor of Accounting, led a wine tasting at Rosenwald Hall (above). Weil and the group conducted on-the-spot data analysis to determione the validity of vintage charts. Traditionally the wine connossieur’s trusty companion, the vintage chart has been contested by some wine critics who say advanced winemaking techniques have narrowed the gap between vintages and rendered the charts obsolete. Participants pooled their own data to answer this question.