Sunday

One last time to visit - you will make payment directly to the Strathallan when you attend your farewell breakfast.

Gather with fellow crew fans along the banks of the Genesee for a glorious day of river racing. Cheer on the Yellowjacket crew teams as they compete against schools from the eastern seaboard. Meet friends in the University of Rochester tent and enjoy light refreshments. Sponsored by Friends of Rochester Athletics.

The University Archives, sometimes called the UR’s attic, is filled with 159 years’ worth of treasures and marvels. This exhibit brings together an assortment of rarely seen objects: ephemera, photographs, clothing, mementos, curiosa, and much more that has been generated since the University’s founding. From the mundane to the rarified, from the funny to the poignant, there is something to enchant everyone.

A lavish exhibtion of literary, cinematic, popular, visual, and historical materials illustrating the appeal of Robin Hood from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries.  This exhibit, in Rush Rhees Library and elsewhere on campus, will include previously unshown photographs from the George Eastman House, items from the Strong National Museum of Play,  and thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.

Thomas Hahn is a professor of English whose teaching centers on the sponsorship, production, and interpretation of texts and images from the earlier Middle Ages through the early modern period. Recent papers, publications, and seminars have concentrated on those scattered or huddled at the edges of emerging European identities, including women, Indians, Jews, heretics, Robin Hood and other outlaws, virtuous pagans, popular chivalric heroes, and other monstrous types.

Exhibitions:
An Impression of the Middle Ages: Productions Stills from Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood
A major exhibition drawing upon an archive of nearly 1000 negatives at the George Eastman House, most never exhibited or examined before. The exhibition will also include original posters and lobby cards, and the boots which Fairbanks wore in the film. Support and contributions from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department, and the University of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

The Americanization of Robin Hood, 1883-1923
A focused exhibition, tracing the development of American images of Robin Hood which have permanently changed the outlaw’s status in international popular culture.  Incorporating the Fairbanks photographs from “An Impression of the Middle Ages,” it will provide a lavishly documented account of the impact and history of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and present music, lyrics, advertisements, programs, and photographs associated with the operettas of Reginald De Koven, including Robin Hood (1891) and Maid Marian (1901).  Support and contributions from the George Eastman House, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the Sibley Music Library, and a private collection.

Robin Hood: Media Creature
An exhibition of Robin Hood-related materials, ranging from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, in all media – selected from thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), photographs (including a selection from previously un-exhibited “keybooks” for The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] with Errol Flynn),  along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.  Support and contributions from the Strong National Museum of Play, the George Eastman House, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and a private collection.

Join Dean Mark Zupan for an update on the Simon School.

One last time to visit - you will make payment dierctly to the Doubletree when you attend your farewell breakfast.

One last time to visit - you will make payment directly to the Rochester Plaza when you attend your farewell breakfast.

One last time to visit - you will make payment directly to the Doubletree when you attend your farewell breakfast.

One last time to visit - you will make payment directly to the Doubletree when you attend your farewell breakfast.

One last time to visit - you will make payment directly to the Radisson when you attend your farewell breakfast.

Dean Peter Lennie and senior College leaders invite you to hear campus updates and ask questions. Enjoy a pre-breakfast student services fair for informal discussions with various departments including Academic Advising, Campus Dining, Student Activities, and the Career Center. Student Services Fair begins at 9 a.m.; breakfast at 9:30 a.m.

Meet current members, hear about our chapters, and learn how the Zeta Delta chapter contributes to our lives and education at the University.

The Genesis Lecture Series is an educational lecture funded by The William “Buzz” Boomer Endowment for Swimming, whose purpose is to enrich the lives of the University of Rochester community. This year’s lecture will focus on Women in Collegiate Athletics.  A panel consisting of distinguished former University of Rochester varsity women athletes from the reunion years of 1979, 1989, and 1999 will share experiences from their athletic careers, and personal and professional lives. Their careers have spanned the three decades that coincided with the rise of Title IX. Participants will benefit from hearing stories, interacting with these outstanding alumnae and learning of their significant achievements. This event is open to all alumni, family, and friends.

In 1998, Memorial Art Gallery Director Grant Holcomb bid on a mysterious painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s. Almost nothing was known about it, or about its remarkably talented painter, but Holcomb’s risk paid off. In a review of auction sales that year, one writer hailed the work as "a masterpiece that is the equal of the best of William Harnett…John Peto…and John Haberle…the three great American titans of trompe l’oeil." With photographs, engravings, and antique bits of bric-a-brac—all overseen by a bespectacled and bearded figure—The Printseller is filled with puzzling bits that suggest a story. This exhibition tells how the painting’s secrets have been given up one by one through the painstaking detective work of guest curator Pete Brown.

GALLERY STORE: Open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. Thursday; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

MAX at the Gallery: Open for lunch Tuesday-Saturday and for Sunday brunch. Reservations suggested, (585) 276-8947 or (585) 697-0491.

FREE ADMISSION: Present your namebadge during Meliora Weekend at the Gallery's Admission Desk and receive FREE admission.

This guided bus tour visits a variety of cultural, historical, educational, and recreational sites in Rochester. The tour includes a visit to High Falls, the preservation neighborhoods, museums, and more. Tours depart from the River Campus. Board bus at 11:15 a.m. behind Rush Rhees Library. Box lunches included.

Hosted by the Epsilon Tau chapter and Rochester alumnae chapter. An occasion for Gamma Phi Beta collegians, alumnae, family, and friends to come together to celebrate a common purpose and past accomplishments within the community.

This guided walking tour takes participants through the 196-acre, 171-year-old cemetery that borders the University’s River Campus. Mt. Hope Cemetery is the burial place of historical figures such as Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Be prepared for extensive walking; comfortable shoes are recommended. Board bus at 11:15 a.m. behind Rush Rhees Library.

Join us for a refreshing and engaging worship experience down by the riverside. The atmosphere will be diverse, please feel free to come as you are. Refreshments served following the service.

Enjoy a free, 25-minute presentation and mini-recital on the only full-size Italian Baroque organ in North America, on permanent loan from the Eastman School of Music.
Memorial Art Gallery
1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Jason Holmes and William Tiberio, conductors
Simply the best way to complete your Meliora Weekend experience! An audience favorite from last year is back—a collaboration between the UR Gospel Choir and Jazz Ensemble. Join these two fun-loving ensembles for a rousing concert that includes contemporary worship music, big band jazz, and even some cross-pollination between the two groups.

The UR International Theatre Program (URITP) celebrates its 20^th anniversary season with Tony Kushner’s (Angels in America) witty, magical, and totally theatrical adaptation of Corneille’s The Illusion. Directed by URITP Artistic Director Nigel Maister, The Illusion is a transcendent and thoroughly modern meditation on the redemptive power of love and theatre. Tickets may be reserved online at www.rochester.edu/theatre.