August 3, 2007

Sept. 6 Birthday Celebration Schedule of Events

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  • All Day, Quad– Living history camp with re-enactors from the New Jersey 2nd Regiment
  • 10 a.m., Williams Center for the Arts gallery — official opening of A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington exhibit
  • 12:15 p.m., northeast corner of Centre Square – dedication ceremony of historical marker to commemorate the founding and naming of Lafayette College in 1824
  • 3-4 p.m., Williams Center for the Arts gallery – Reception for the John L. Hatfield ’67 Lecture including an appearance by the Marquis
  • 4:10 p.m., Williams Center for the Arts – Lloyd Kramer will present the John L. Hatfield ’67 Lecture, “Lafayette’s Historical Legacy: Politics, Culture, and the Modern World”
  • 5:15 p.m., Quad – Learn to Contra Dance
  • 5:30 p.m., Quad – All-College Dinner
  • 5:30-8 p.m., Quad – students can have their photo taken in Revolutionary Era garb with life size images of the Marquis
  • 6 p.m., Quad – Ringing of South College bell to mark the arrival of the Marquis by carriage in front of Skillman Library
  • 6:15 p.m., Quad – Official welcome and greeting by the Marquis
  • 6:45 p.m., Quad – Cutting of the birthday cake and singing of “Happy Birthday”
  • 7 p.m., Quad – Carriage rides
  • 7 p.m., Quad – Music by the Alligator Zydeco Band
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