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Sesquicentennial insert photographers: Shannon Taggart, Joe Gawlowicz, Kurt Brownell, Stephen Reynolds

	Hub of activity: Over 7,000 participants--alumni, faculty and staff, students, parents, and other friends--kept the Wilson Commons registration desk humming.
	Sesqui VIPs: Sesquicentennial chairman and trustee Joe Mack '55 is here flanked by Convocation keynote speaker Doris Kearns Goodwin and staff Sesqui director Mary Jo Ferr.
	Whither higher education? President Emeritus Dennis O'Brien joins a panel of past and present college and university presidents contemplating the future of academe. Their collective conclusion: more of the same, with some challenging differences.
	Duvall in the classroom: Meeting with undergraduates in William Scott Green's "Theories of Religion" course, actor Robert Duvall (left) talks about his film The Apostle, which the class has been analyzing throughout the fall semester.
	Explaining quantum science--as far as can be done: When it was first proposed, noted Nobel Prize--winner Steven Chu '70, quantum theory "made no sense to anyone who thought about it in any rational way. The only thing it had going for it is that it appeared to be true."
	How-to session: U.S. surgeon General David Satcher '72M (resident) points out some useful aids to "Successful Aging." The session, sponsored by the Medical Center, was a highlight of its 75th anniversary observance.
	Douglass Symposium: Arnold Mitchem, president of the Council for Opportunity in Education (left), and Howard University's graduate dean Orlando Taylor were two of the panelists tackling the "pipeline problem" that impedes minority representation in academe.
	Life inside the Beltway: "The intensity level in Washington is balanced by the complacency outside," election analyst Norman Ornstein tells the audience that packed the Palestra for a panel on this fall's elections.
	Thank you to volunteers: Among events honoring volunteers was a Medical Center brunch party, here being enjoyed by Mark and Mary Frances Garber '86 and family.
	Computing the future: Microsoft v.p. Richard Rashid '80 (PhD) points out that by 2003 you could conceivably store all the conversations you've ever had in a device no bigger than a single drive in a PC.
	Onward and upward: NASA Chief Dan Goldin offers a glimpse of the future "out there." The next generation coming up, he predicted, will "open up the heavens."
	Susan B. was here: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of education for women at Rochester, Rush Rhees Library mounted an exhibition of commemorative treasures from the University archives.
	President-watcher: Doris Kearns Goodwin, speaking at the "Privacy and the Media" session, confessed to once passing up a scoop on Jimmy Carter's "lusting in the heart" because, from the angle she was reporting on, "I couldn't fit it into my category."
	"Sports is a canvas I can paint on."
	Emulating Robin Hood: A big draw for younger visitors was the Sesqui Games, a feature of the "Kids' Kollege."
	Another Homecoming victory: Women's field hockey on its way to a 4-1 win over SUNY Geneseo.
	Cheering the Yellowjackets: Playing before the largest Fauver Stadium crowd in 13 years, the 'Jackets downed Canisius, 34-28, in the Homecoming football game.
	Back to the boats: John Eng '99 and Justin Rydstorm '00 rowed for Rochester in the regatta alumni race.
	Rowing on the river: Sunday's Stonehurst Capital Invitational Regatta drew some 30 collegiate crews from throughout the Northeast, cheered on by some 5,000 riverbank supporters.
	"Sports provided a way for me to identify with the world."
	Instant landmark: The newly-named-and-landscaped Dandelion Square with its distinctive clock (dedicated during the weekend in honor of trustee and former BOT chair David Kearns '52) drew heavy traffic from admiring visitors.
	On to the red planet: Astronaut Jim Pawelczyk '82 takes his audience on a trip to Mars, which he predicts could happen by 2014.
	Yukking it up with Wayne Brady & Friends comedy team
	Optics professors Nick Bigelow (left) and Ian Walmsley pointed out that the esoteric new field of quantum optics was, arguably, invented at Rochester
	Unveiling: A portrait of Robert B. Goergen '60, chairman of the Board of Trustees, is displayed at the dedication of the Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center.
	The lowdown on Hollywood: "In all the art forms, the most difficult achievement is to make a motion picture," declares Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America chief, chairing the "UR in Hollywood" panel.
	World premiere: Donald Hunsberger conducts the Eastman Wind Ensemble in a work commissioned from Eastman alumnus Jeff Tyzik ' 73 for performance at the Sesqui Convocation.
	You've got mail: Kodak chairman George Fisher cracks up the Convocation audience with purported advice from George Eastman via e-mail from above. Along with more general admonitions (cherish the University of Rochester), Eastman ordered his company successors to "keep the boxes yellow. . . . Nobody messes with this."
	Rhees returns to Rochester: Rush Rhees's daughter, Henrietta Rhees Stewart, and granddaughter, Henrietta Stewart Callaway, chat with President Jackson at the Gala Dinner.
	A little light music: From American Sign Language to Women's Studies, the College's academic departments hosted open houses for returning alumni and visiting parents. These performers, Jon Prince and Fay Yao, are students in Department of Music.
	Birthday cake: Robert B. Goergen '60, chairman of the Board of Trustees; Joe Mack '55, trustee and Sesqui chairman; and President Jackson were among those doing the honors when it came time to blow out the candles.
	The big bang: Friday night's fireworks light up the Genesee.

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