Below are all the details for registration, including links to TigerNet and on-line registration.

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Dec. 1, 2025

Dear Classmates of 1961!

Welcome to our 65^th Reunion, May 21-24, 2026!

                                                            A mere 14 years ago!

Ready, Set, going back to Old Nassau – with the best old class of all – Burning Bright as Ever!

We’re gearing up for another great reunion, this time in historic and friendly Forbes College, overlooking Springdale golf course.  The program is shaping up as a combination of old and new Princeton, as the campus expands to accommodate more students, new programs and new technologies.  We’re including virtual as well as actual tours of campus and the new Art Museum, Alumni-Faculty Forums on meaningful and controversial topics, and quiet conversations with old friends you may not have seen in many years.

Dining will be excellent, under the discriminating eye of Bob Pickens, who once again has arranged a Saturday wine tasting by the Kingston Family Vineyards. Our cocktail hours will feature Bob Egan ’75 on the piano and keyboard.  The Nassoons will sing during our traditional memorial service on Friday afternoon, with our annual class dinner and election of officers that evening.

We’re making every effort to keep reunion costs under control, and to minimize unnecessary walking from place to place.  All meals will be at Forbes, prepared for us by Princeton dining services. Reception/dinner music will be provided by Bob Egan ’75 on the piano and keyboards.  Our student crew now numbers six, our least ever.  Even so, as our class numbers decline, reunion fees are higher per person than at our last physical reunion in 2016, just to enable us to cover our expenses.  If you find that the reunion fees make it difficult for you and your spouse or partner to attend, please let Bob Pickens or Justin Kimball know.  Assistance may be available.  Bob’s at 609-924-8907, pickens.robert@gmail.com, and Justin’s at 610-268-2657, jhkimball@comcast.net.  We’d like everyone to attend who can do so safely.

The P-rade, of course, is Saturday. Our Burning Bright as Ever! class will march; we in our bright reunion jackets, ladies in their new scarves, (provided as a gift at check in) all wearing sunglasses and led by the one and only Princeton Tiger!       (A good photo op!)  We’ll be bused from Forbes to Nassau Hall before the P-rade, and we can ride back to Forbes afterwards, if desired.  If you’ve rented a golf cart, you may ride it in the P-rade. If you’d prefer to ride the free “Tiger Trolley” in comfort in the P-rade and back to Forbes, that’s fine, just sign-up Thursday or Friday on the “Tiger Trolley” P-rade sign-up sheet at Forbes.

Besides the P-rade “Tiger Trolley”, we have many transportation options at our reunion location. We’re a short walk across the street from the University’s bus transportation center, a parking garage, and the Dinky station. From the center, shuttle buses loop continually to hotels along Route 1 and back. The Uber and LYFT taxi line is right in front of Forbes, along Alexander Road. Buses will continue to provide trips around the perimeter of campus, and trolleys will run along Elm Drive, from the handicapped parking area to Chapel Drive circle and back. There will be golf cart drivers stationed at Forbes who can transport guests to and from main campus as needed, instead of the “roving” golf cart service that was offered in past years. 

If your mobility needs require more help, it is available.  It may be possible to rent a golf cart for your personal use, either for the P-rade or for the entire Reunion. (Last May, a 3-day golf cart rental cost about $950.)  Eligibility is restricted to alumni holding state-issued proof of a handicap designation. Orders must be placed with the University through a specific online form which we can make available to you. Prices for our reunion are not yet determined. If you wish to pursue this option, or to rent a scooter, let me or Frank Novak know. He is our Transportation Chair. (novakf@verizon.net, 973-342-7835) We will work with you to get the ball rolling. Orders must be placed by the end of April.

After dinner Saturday night, the University celebrates with a band concert and a half hour fireworks extravaganza at Princeton Stadium!

Sunday Brunch at Forbes is our final event.  From then on, we’ll be part of the Old Guard at reunions!  So, let’s make our 65^th a great one!  Be there, “Burning Bright - as Ever!”

REGISTRATION INFO

Registration is where you tell us about yourself, your diet preferences, and about your guests, family or otherwise. Then you make your selections for a full or partial reunion, if you want on-campus housing, or to order a golf shirt or T shirt with our reunion logo. (No new apparel items are required to be purchased for the reunion.  They are optional.) All the online data will be included in the wristband you receive at Forbes College when you check in.  If you use the paper form our registrar, Lee Blyler, will enter the data for you.

You may register online, or by using the paper form enclosed with this letter.  Having used online registration myself, I recommend you try it.  Once you begin, it’s a simple series of boxes to fill in, does the addition for you, and prompts you if you miss a box.  For security, the form resides on the University’s Tigernet system, which requires a password.  It’s easy to register on Tigernet, and instructions are on the next page.   Once you are in Tigernet, select registration, and your initial page will look like mine –

Reunions 2026

Class of 1961 - 65th Reunion

Tell us about yourself

First Name

Nickname  “Joe”

Prefer to be known by a different first name? Enter it here. We'll use this on your name tag.

  There are several benefits to using online registration.  You can pay by credit card or check. You can easily correct or revise the registration yourself, right up to May 21, 2026.  With paper registration you must pay by check, and to revise the registration you must call or email Lee.  Modifications to paper registrations after May 1 are discouraged.

Registering online – If you do not have a Tigernet account, register for one using this link

https://puwebp.princeton.edu/tigerNet/startPage.jsf?type=A1 tartPage.jsf?type=A1

Click on “Register Now” and follow the instructions. Once registered, click on the link that will be sent to you by email, or copy and paste this address into your browser: http://princeton.reunioniq.com/go/2026/1961rinceton.reunioniq.com/go/2026/1961 

Then click on “Register Now,” enter your Tigernet ID and p/w, and continue your registration.

Registering on paper – complete the form enclosed, and mail it with your check payable to Princeton University Class of 1961, to Lee Blyler, 55 Kensington Road, Basking Ridge, NJ, 07920.  His contact info is on page 4 of the form and here – (blylers@verizon.net, 908-672-8505.)

The second section on the registration form is campus Housing, where you may request to stay in Forbes College or the Theological Seminary.  We have reserved a limited number of campus beds, as described in our Sept. 30 letter.  Please read the registration form carefully before requesting campus beds, and submit your request before Jan. 10, 2026.  We expect demand for these beds to exceed supply, so we’ll conduct a lottery in late January – early February.  We’ll advise everyone after the lottery, and the winners will be billed. They must pay by check for their beds to the Class of 1961, sent to Lee Blyler.  Please pay promptly. Beds unpaid by April 1 will be returned to the University for others to use.  Remember:  If you don’t request campus beds by Jan 10, you will not be entered into the campus bed lottery!

Apparel – This section is on the last registration page. You may order white golf shirts and/or white T-shirts with our reunion logo. They are optional, not required.  To ensure that they will be waiting for you at check-in in May, please order shirts prior to Jan. 10, 2026.

P-rade apparel – Our great reunion jacket, with any white shirt and long trousers, and your own sunglasses, is our official men’s outfit for the P-rade. If  you need a jacket, please let George Brakeley (secy@princeton61.org, 203-912-3362) or me know!

For the ladies we will provide a complimentary long narrow scarf in our orange and white jacket pattern for the  P-rade, to be worn with their choice of white blouse and white skirt or pants, and their own sunglasses.  Your other guests, of all ages, should wear predominantly white comfortable attire and sunglasses.

Thanks!  We look forward to being with you at our 65^th reunion in May!

We’re expecting an excellent turnout, with over 41 classmates so far, plus their wives and Class Associates, already planning to attend.  Hope you can be here with us!  The latest Who’s Coming list and links to online registration are available on the 65^th Reunion page of our great class website – www.princeton61.org.

Go Tigers!

Joe McGinity, co-chair

(mcginj9@gmail.com, 215-595-6995)

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To register on-line, while logged on to TigerNet, go to https://princeton.reunioniq.com/go/2026/1961.