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A record total of over 5,000 alumni and friends attended this year’s MIT Tech Reunions, which took place online from June 4-6. Special events were organized for classes in the year of reunification, and the entire MIT community was invited to watch the online Tech Night at Pops program, learn from faculty during Technology Day, and take virtual tours of the campus.
Symphony hall at home
Since the 123rd annual Tech Night at Pops was held virtually, there was no limit on the number of alumni and guests who could attend, and each got a front row seat. Conducted by Keith Lockhart in an empty symphony hall, the Boston Pops Orchestra performed a program tailored for the occasion, featuring institute favorites such as “Arise All Ye of MIT,” and a tribute to the 50th 1971 reunion class with tunes from Three Dogs Night and Carol King. The evening also included classics such as the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, featuring soloist William Wang, MIT Ph.D. and a music student at the MIT Conservatory-level Emerson program, in his first performance with a professional orchestra. Traditionally, the broadcast ended with “Stars and Stripes Forever” and a (virtual) balloon crash. Throughout the presentation, alumni and guests covered the conversation with greetings and memories from all over the world:
Stephanie Shareau Chiesi ’99, ’01,
SM ’04:
I’m so excited to be able to share Tech Night at the Pops with my 3.5 year old from here in Tucson tonight!
Debbie Zappen ’86:
Hello from Austin, Texas! Here as part of the 35th reunion in 1986. 
Jesse Hines ’70:
We’ve seen Pops many times, but we are always looking forward to it.
Maris Fravel ’56:
Looking forward to my first Pops gig after graduation.
Alan Whitney ’66,
SM ’67, PhD ’74:
Alan Whitney, alumnus of ’66 here (BSEE, MSEE, PhD); As an undergraduate and graduate student, all these years I played 1st violin with the MIT Symphony Orchestra.
Nova Lubega ’86:
Greetings from Uganda–my first Pops concert. Beautiful!
Dalia Jimenez ’01:
Hello from the road in Southern California! Hello 2001 class!
Bob Nakata ’81,
CM ’85:
Aloha from Honolulu, Hawaii!
Jennifer Dixon ’96:
Greetings from Charleston. It’s fun. Greetings to everyone who made this reunion possible.
Lucas Camelo Sa ’16:
Greetings from Fortaleza, Brazil!
Jim Mannoya ’71:
Our 50th reunion! Who would have thought! Watching live stream eating my Tech Night at the Pops popcorn gift and watching polo at the Polo Club of Santa Barbara.
Ric Schonblom ’56, SM ’57:
Nice to be here. For the first time on campus in over fifty years!
Philip Huang ’99:
Greetings from Shanghai!
Surekha Vajhala Trivedi
’96, SM ’99:
Hello 25th reunion, 1996 Class friends! I miss all red jackets personally!
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