{"id":267056,"date":"2025-06-25T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=267056"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:41:35","slug":"mary-washington-alumni-come-home-for-2025-reunion-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/06\/25\/mary-washington-alumni-come-home-for-2025-reunion-weekend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Washington Alumni Come Home for 2025 Reunion Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_266976\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/EagleEye_NewRelease_ReunionWeekend_2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266976\" class=\"wp-image-266976 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/EagleEye_NewRelease_ReunionWeekend_2025-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Selle &rsquo;05 (second from left) and fellow 2005 alumni join 1980 alumni for a photo on Campus Walk during Reunion Weekend. Photo by Karen Pearlman.\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/EagleEye_NewRelease_ReunionWeekend_2025-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/EagleEye_NewRelease_ReunionWeekend_2025-768x310.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/EagleEye_NewRelease_ReunionWeekend_2025.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Selle &rsquo;05 (second from left) and fellow 2005 alumni join 1980 alumni for a photo on Campus Walk during Reunion Weekend. Photo by Karen Pearlman.<\/p><\/div><p>Living across the Atlantic couldn&rsquo;t keep Rachel Selle &rsquo;05 from celebrating her 20th Reunion Weekend at the University of Mary Washington.<\/p><p>Now a teacher and young-adult author in Germany, she looked forward to staying overnight in Randolph Hall, where she served as a resident assistant two decades ago. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m really excited to reconnect with classmates and see what life &ndash; and Mary Washington &ndash; has brought us all since we graduated,&rdquo; she said.<\/p><p>Selle was among the hundreds of alumni to return for UMW&rsquo;s Reunion Weekend, held May 30 to June 1. The forecast called for rain, but showers soon gave way to clear skies, sunshine and even a rainbow as classes ending in 0 and 5 participated in parties and picnics, faculty lectures, campus tours, beverage tastings, family festivities, a fun run and cool treats at Carl&rsquo;s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/05\/mary-washington-alumni-come-home-for-2025-reunion-weekend\/\">Read more.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living across the Atlantic couldn&rsquo;t keep Rachel Selle &rsquo;05 from celebrating her 20th Reunion Weekend at the University of Mary Washington.Now a teacher and young-adult author in Germany, she looked forward to staying overnight in Randolph Hall, where she served as a resident assistant two decades ago. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m really excited to reconnect with classmates and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":266976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}