Celebrate
Can you believe it’s been 50 years since graduation? Come back to WashU’s beautiful campus May 10-12, 2025, and celebrate this wonderful milestone with your classmates.
Featured Events
Commencement weekend will be packed with events on campus and around St. Louis, but there are a few signature reunion experiences you won’t want to miss.
50th Reunion Medallion Ceremony and Reception
Saturday, May 10
4-8 p.m.
Don cap and gown to participate in a ceremony led by Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and receive your keepsake 50th Reunion medallion.
Class of 1975 Party
Sunday, May 11
5 p.m.
Celebrate five fabulous decades with the class of 1975! Enjoy an elegant evening at Third Degree Glass Factory, surrounded by stunning art and precious friends. Catch up over cocktails, a seated dinner, and live music. Reminisce about the good times shared at WashU while making wonderful new memories.
50th Reunion Commencement March
Monday, May 13
7 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lead the procession into the Commencement exercises for the Class of 2025.
Get involved
Reunion class gift
At WashU, we believe in the power of tradition, community, and the transformative impact of education. Your reunion year is not only an opportunity to reconnect with old friends but also a chance to make a meaningful contribution to the institution that played a significant role in shaping your journey.
Be a part of the time-honored tradition of giving back through your reunion class gift. Regardless of the size of your contribution, every gift makes an impact on the university, its students, and the larger community.
Class of 1975 reunion committee
Want to help plan Reunion and make sure it’s a huge success? Join your Reunion Committee! Check out this list of classmates who have already signed up:
Catherine Beltz-Williams
BA ’75
Marcia Goldstein-Nathans
BS ’77
Class memories
Class notes
Bob Wickizer, MA ’75, runs a commercial winery that he started in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He grows his own grapes, winning awards in San Francisco and in other competitions.
Mark Kramer, MArch ’75, and his wife, Margi, wrote and illustrated a children’s book, Molli & Me and the Family Tree.
David Mason, BS ’75, was appointed to the board of directors of The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.
Robert Lowes, AB ’75, a longtime journalist, published his first collection of poetry, An Honest Hunger: Poems (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020), which reviewers called “a joyful dance with everyday life” and “a book of great heart.”
Looking back at 1975
2,354 to graduate on May 23
WashU Chancellor William H. Danforth will confer eight honorary degrees in addition to 1,139 undergraduate and 1,215 graduate degrees at the University’s 114th commencement exercises.
1,000 WashU men take to the hardwood in annual intramural basketball craze
Approximately 1,000 students, faculty and staff play weekly on 110 intramural basketball teams from December to February, making it and the equally heavily attended softball program the most popular extracurricular activities on campus.
McDonnell Center for Space Sciences to be established with $4 million gift
WashU will receive gifts totaling $4 million over the next four years from the McDonnell Aerospace Foundation to establish a Center for Space Sciences, Chancellor William H. Danforth announced this week.
Planning to attend
Search for classmates who are planning to come back for WashU Reunion at Commencement, May 10-12, 2025.