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Taking a look back ... and a glimpse into the future esquicentennial Weekend, October 12-15, was by all accounts the biggest and best celebration in the University's 150-year history. On the River Campus, over 7,000 participants--alumni, faculty and staff, students, and parents--enjoyed a festive array of well over 100 events designed, as the Sesqui theme suggests, to "celebrate the past and imagine the future." Meanwhile, the Medical Center was observing the 75th anniversary of its founding and Eastman School alumni gathered for their triennial reunion. The Sesquicentennial Convocation on October 14 at Eastman Theatre offered both a look back at where the University has been and a glimpse into what it may become. Over 1,000 were in attendance at the event that premiered a new composition by Jeff Tyzik, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra pops conductor and a graduate of the Eastman School. The Convocation included keynote addresses by University President Thomas Jackson, University Trustee Paula Brownlee, Eastman Kodak Co. chairman George Fisher, and Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. President Jackson spoke of how the University was established and predicted where it--and higher education in general--might be headed. He said he envisions an end to major expansion, a continuation of a highly competitive environment, and, in spite of the Internet, a bright future for the residential college. "But if I have a robust prediction, at least in my view," he said, "the major features of the campus, and particularly of the undergraduate education, will look much the same 50 years from now." Many of the seminars and panel discussions on the River Campus focused on the years that lie ahead. The future of higher education, academic medical centers, space exploration, the motion picture industry, and sports all offered fodder for lively discussion as did other topics of interest, ranging from religion to evolution, successful aging to child development, and quantum physics to computers. This special commemorative insert to Currents capture some of the moments of delight, discovery, and fun from Sesquicentennial Weekend during which the University community came together to "celebrate the past and imagine the future."

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