You Can Go Home Again – and Again and Again…

After a week of pounding rains and brooding, cinematic skies, the clouds miraculously parted and the sun poured down in abundance – just in time for Homecoming 2010. More than a thousand alumni and other visitors swelled the campus population on Saturday, October 2^nd, for a day of tailgating, football, and wild hugs and high fives. Cars started rolling up to Park Avenue early to find the best place to set up their picnic chests and coolers, and before long the smell of barbecue was filling the air. Whole teams and sororities seemed to reconstitute themselves on the spot as if the intervening year or two – or maybe 20 – had never taken place. A great many came from New York and New Jersey, but quite a few who grew up there now sport Fairfield-area addresses as they make their way in the world close to their alma mater. The day was full of show-and-tell moments: new jobs, new kids, new email addresses to share. Even those on their first or second reunion got to see remarkable changes on campus – from the gleaming new Chapel of the Holy Spirit to the grand canyon that will look very much like the new student services building by this time next year. Every year, Homecoming seems to get better as more and more of the family return to experience and enrich the ongoing life of the University.