Just some of the awesomeness you’ll find in our class Flickr photo pool!

Okay, so maybe online social networking didn’t exist in 1993, but it does now, and it is time to get on board!

Your class officers have gone all Web 2.0 on you, and set up a Flickr photo pool.

What’s that, you ask? A place on the photo sharing site Flickr where you can view photos of your classmates from good old Wheaton, plus add ones of your own. Some from the days long gone, photos from past reunions and most importantly, photos from your 15th reunion.

That’s right, if you, like the rest of the world, have a digital camera or camera phone, and will be using it at reunion THIS COMING WEEKEND, why not join our Flickr pool and post your images from the weekend for those that were there and those that wish they had been?

Here’s what you do.

1. Join Flickr, if you aren’t already a member. (It’s free.)

2. Once you are a member, you’re eligible to join our Flickr pool.

Here’s the whole URL: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wheatonclassof1993/ Easy to remember, yes?

3. Add your Wheaton pictures, old or new, using the fast and easy uploading tools. That’s all there is to it!

If you’re looking for some more advanced social networking stuff, there are a bunch of Wheaties on Linked In and a class of 1993 group on Facebook. Check it out!

And if you’re on Twitter, you should be writing this instead of us! (Leave your Twitter name in the comments so we can follow you.

Class of 1993, there’s about a week to go before for our 15th reunion, and in the immortal words of George Clooney from Ocean’s Eleven, we want to know, “Are you in or are you out?”

Chris Harris ‘93 and Garrick Gelinas ‘93 at our tenth reunion, 2003. Yes, that’s in the Loft.

These guys are SO THRILLED about their 15th reunion!

These classmates are in!

This crew is all coming too!

Haven’t registered yet? Be a champ and let the college know you’re coming, even if you aren’t staying over.

Garrick is coming, but Kala isn’t. She promises to come to the 20th!

All the info you need is online, and registration couldn’t be easier.

Think any of these lovelies will be joining us?

The folks below SAY they’re coming and some of them have even registered, and we know there are plenty more of you out there.

Leave a comment below, and say hello, whether you’re coming or not!

Brenda Irving Cooke
Bob Pellecchia
Paige Scott
Rossy Garcia
Jennifer Jenkins Devlin
Neil Levesque
Maria Luizzi Sullivan

Sara Sharpless Abitagaoglu
Susan Tomasian
Liz Guthrie DellaVolpe
Erin Perry Bourgeois

Niki Riedell D’Esopo
Ellen Champlin DaCorte
Emmanuelle Thiney Ferrer
Garrick Gelinas
Andrea Edman Gerber

Karin Graefe
Megan Collins Field
Susan Hayash
Gregory Leach
Rachel Lowe

James MacFarlane
Stacey Nee MacFarlane
Sarah Nagle Null
Robert Pellecchia

Sally Dunn Reagan
Anna Fitzgerald Sawin
Caroline Dulle Smith
Annabel Snowden
Benjamin Stoddart
Kathleen Sullivan
Stacy Johnson Sweet
Kathleen Clancy Walsh

William Walsh
Michele Webster
Andrea Dorr Weeman
Erin Monahan Weisberg
Michael Weisberg
Heather Westbrook
Marie Curcio Yarborough

For more of this fabulousness, check out our Wheaton Class of 1993 Flickr pool, and add some of your own!

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Greetings, class of 1993.

Fifteen years ago this week, you were probably at home doing your last loads of laundry before returning to campus for our senior spring.

Today?

You’re a little more than 93 days out from your fifteenth college reunion, and while some of you may still be doing laundry at your parents’ house, for the most part times have changed. A lot. When we left campus in 1993, we were given a booklet with our classmate’s names and mailing addresses, and now I’ve got a new 93-er sending a friends request every time I log into Facebook.

So since we’ve got got a great party planned for your fifteenth reunion at Wheaton, May 16-18, 2008, since we’ve got all this great technology at our fingertips and since you might need a littler refresher on who, exactly, was in your class, we’ve launched this reunion blog. Your class officers, a group of people you may not even remember attending college with, are kicking it off, but we’re looking to YOU to write the rest.

We want blog posts of a few paragraphs (300-400 words) from members of the class of 1993. This is NO BIG DEAL, folks, you wrote ten-page papers in your Revolutions freshman seminar in 1989. It takes 300 words just to order a latte.

So sit down at your computer, and send an email to wheatonclassof1993@gmail.com.

Write about your most memorable days at Wheaton, your least favorite meal in the dining hall, your freshman year roommate, what you would do differently, what you wouldn’t change at all and your most embarrassing college moment.

Write about Vera from the dining hall, Head of the Peacock, Midnight Brunch in the dining hall, dimple diving, trips to the Coffee Pot and how much your clothes smelled of smoke when you got back, the late night Chinese food that took two hours to be delivered (did that happen to everyone or just me?) your coach, your professors and your friends.

Write about what your Wheaton experience means to you now that we are out or just tell a funny story. Write about something memorable, emotional, personal, but write about something very definitely Wheaton.

And hey, we’re going to need a photo to go with it, whether it is dated 1993 or 2008. Because I’m going to need a way to recognize you on Facebook.

That’s me on the right. A prize to the first commenter who can name all the other people in the photo.

Anna Fitzgerald Sawin is the vice president of the class of 1993 and is very excited about the theme of our class cocktail party on May 17—the Eighties. She is the mother of two boys, and is a writer and editor living in Connecticut. She blogs at http://hankandwillie.wordpress.com.

Hello, all!

Thinking back to my Wheaton days, many memories come to mind…but two in particular: I vividly remember presenting my Anthropology thesis senior year while contending with a nasty flu! I remember standing at the podium in Mary Lyon and seeing the faces of my audience go blurry and then watching as the “men in blue” (Public Safety) showed up, after someone called them with concern of my well-being!

And one dining hall memory sticks out in my mind: throwing away my ID with the food from my meal and having to spend a long time digging thru the garbage bins until I found it! (And I know I was not the only one who experienced this ritual!) How nasty and something I hope current students don’t have to contend with!  

I’m really looking forward to our upcoming 15th reunion on May 16-18, 2008 and catching-up with everyone. We’d love to hear what you remember about your Wheaton days and what you are up to now—I’ll start!

Class president Annabel Snowden ‘93 (right) with her partner Terri. 

And their “kids”—sweet Liesl, age three and baby Kelte, shown here at eight weeks old!