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Weekend2006This year’s Alumni Reunion Weekend was a banner gettogether,a festive time for families, a golden chance tocatch up and reconnect. It attracted more than 1,500alumni and their families, who traveled to their alma materfrom as many as 33 states and from as far as Australia. Eightdecades of graduates were represented, from the classesof 1938 to 2006, according to Gary R. Olsen ’74 A&S, ’80 G.S. Heis executive director of the Villanova University Alumni Association(VUAA) and associate vice president for Alumni Affairs.For alumni from near and far, the experience indeed proved tobe a celebration of their future as well as a window to their past.“As we celebrate our University this weekend, let us remember thecontributions of the Augustinian fathers and brothers and thosealumni of years past who made it possible for us to be here this weekend,”Olsen said during his remarks at the Alumni Gala.Spring/Summer 2006 53