1976 Class Reunion Draft Agenda

From 3pm

[Check-in to accommodation] 

12:30 - 2pm 

Lunch (self-organised) 

2pm - 3:00pm 

Tour of Rhodes House, in groups depending on numbers with Mat Davies

Free time, checking in 

4:30 - 5:30pm 

Event and Q&A with Sir John Bell 

pm 

Relaxed dinner at a local pub

9:30am - 12:30pm

Author's Panel with Scholars in Residence:
- 'An Election to Remember: Recollections of a United Nationals Observer to the 1994 South African election' by Chisanga Puta-Chekwe
- 'Black Writers of the Founding Era' by James Basker
- 'Killing in War' by Jeff McMahan 

12:30pm - 2pm 

Buffet Lunch, Beit Room at Rhodes House 

2:30pm - 3:15pm 

Partner-led event at Rhodes House: 'What has it been like to live with a Rhodes Scholar?'

3:15pm - 3:30pm 

Coffee and Tea Break

3:30pm - 4pm 

Remembrance of Classmates 

6:00pm

Drinks Reception with the Warden, Garden and Reception Room at Rhodes House 

9:30am   

Coach from Rhodes House 

10am 

Tour of Blenheim Palace and grounds 

12:30  

Lunch at Andrew Banks and Pamela Gordon-Banks' in Woodstock 

2:30pm 

Coach back to Vere Harmsworth Library, Oxford  

2:30pm - 4pm

Alain Locke Collection tour with Professor Adam Smith and Coffee

7pm  

Self-organised Dinners

9:30 - 10:45am 

Looking at the archives with Rhodes House Archivist,

11 - 12:30             

Chancellor/Vice Chancellor speaker event 

12:30  

Self-organised lunch in Oxford  

Afternoon 

Choice of Oxford tours:
- Oxford architectural tour of the city with Professor William Wyte
- Tour of Ashmolean Museum collection of choice with museum curator

6:30pm 

Drinks reception and Dinner at Divinity School, Bodleian Library