Homecoming
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Thursday May 24 through Sunday May 27, 2012 (Memorial Day Weekend),
Ken Smith '58 presenting an alumni award at the 2008 reunion of 1940s-1970s page alumni
Page alumni of all generations will converge on Capitol Hill to celebrate, reminisce, and relax. Mark your calendars now. There will be plenty for everyone, whether you plan to travel with family, former classmates, or alone.
Like Homecomings at other schools, this Homecoming will be packed with fun events all weekend. See below for a preliminary schedule of events, and check back in a couple months for more details.
If your page class is planning a reunion, consider doing it during Memorial Day Weekend 2012. It will be a great opportunity to get together with your former classmates and meet new folks from other generations. There will be plenty of time scheduled into the Homecoming weekend for each class to arrange its own activities apart from the larger group.
House Pages of 1987 pose with former House Clerk and Class of 1960 Donn Anderson for their 15th Anniversary Reunion
Book Your Hotel Now
The Homecoming headquarters will be at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel, just a few blocks from the Capitol. The Association has arranged a discount for alumni and their guests, for $129 per night ($147.70 including tax.) For this price, alumni can choose between a King size bed or two Queen beds. The discount is available for the nights of Thursday, May 24, Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May 26.
This is a great value to alumni and their guests, and there are only a limited number of discounted rooms available to our group, so book your room today. Believe it or not, the regular price at the Liaison Hotel during the same weekend is more than $400 per night!
Or call the Liaison Hotel at 866-233-4642. The hotel employee will ask for the group name or the group code. The group name is U.S. Capitol Page Alumni Association and the group code is USCPAA.
Find out who from your class is planning to attend
Let us know if you are planning to attend Homecoming. Registration is not yet open, but we’d love to hear if you’re thinking of attending so we can plan with the proper number of people in mind.
Are you curious who from your class is planning to attend? Look no further. Click on your class decade. If you served on the cusp, such as 1989-1990, your class year would be the second of the two years.
Preliminary Schedule of Events (Subject to Change)
Thursday, May 24:
Afternoon arrivals.
3:00-5:00pm: 2 unique panel discussions at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center, featuring former pages highlighting unique parts of page history
5:00-7:00pm: Arrival Reception at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center
Friday, May 25:
Throughout the day: various shifts of House Floor tours, and Senate page school tours
TBD: An opportunity for former pages to deliver petitions to their members of Congress, encouraging them to support the re-instatement of the House Page Program.
1:00-4:00pm: Supreme Court tour and panel discussion about Supreme Court paging history (limited to 100 participants)
Evening: Free time for each page class to arrange its own dinner. Already, we are aware that the following classes are planning dinners: ’80, ’90, ’92, ’02
8:00pm: “Paginations” – a fun trivia contest about page history at the Liaison Hotel, for those not participating in class dinners
Saturday, May 26:
Various free activities throughout the day for families, including group professional photos on the Capitol steps.
Saturday evening there will be the large all-class Homecoming Dinner at the Liaison Hotel. This will be the first time that page alumni of all ages will come together under one roof.
Sunday, May 27:
11:00am-2:00pm: Alumni brunch in nearby park.
Free time for individual classes to arrange lunch or other gatherings
