Welcome back for your 45th reunion, Class of 1979!

Reunion is a special time to reconnect, reminisce, and celebrate with your classmates. It is also a wonderful time to continue the longstanding tradition of giving back in honor of your time on campus. Your gift of any amount to any area of the university is a meaningful way to commemorate your time at Washington University.

Not sure where you want to designate your gift? Browse areas of support and choose the school, scholarship, or program that is most significant to you. 

Class Challenge Information

Your classmate Joe Wayland (AB '79) has made a generous commitment to the university as a challenge to his classmates from the class of 1979.  He will match dollar for dollar every renewed gift and will match 2:1 for increased gifts and multi-year pledges up to the total of his gift of $250,000. 

Learn more about Joe Wayland

Why do you choose to support WashU?

By inculcating habits of critical thought and analytical rigor, by championing freedom of inquiry and expression, by demanding the highest standards of scholarship, Washington University contributes immeasurably to the common good.  In so doing, WashU takes its place among the great universities serving civil society as bastions of reason and truth, which is especially compelling when demagoguery and prejudice are ascendant.

What is a memory from your time on campus?

I have fond memories of attending the Red Rose Cotillion, a dance held in Holmes Lounge on a crisp evening in October amidst wind-tossed showers of gold and brown.  It was a magical night of dress-up and dancing, a throw-back to tradition as traditions were vanishing in the late 70s.   

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