VIDEOS of the Class of 2013 Arrival Day are below:
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth delivers a Class of 2013 Arrival Day Welcome Sept. 1 in Memorial Chapel. (Video by Melissa Datre, John Wareham, Allynn Wilkinson and Mark Bailey)(Video by Lauren Valentino '10)Video by Bill Burkhart)Video of James Dottin '13 of Boston, Mass. moving into Clark Hall. (Video by Olivia Bartlett Drake)
PHOTOGRAPHS of Arrival Day are below:
Families parked on Andrus Field and moved items into Clark Hall.
James Dottin '13, right, of Boston, Mass. moved into Clark Hall.
Residential Life staff handed out first-year-student information packets.
Julian Applebaum '13 of Westfield, N.J. moves into his new dorm room in the Butterfield Residences.
Kari Weil, visiting professor of letters, and wife of Wesleyan President Michael Roth, helps Class of 2013 members carry in their belongings.
Matthew Lichtash '13 of Brooklyn, N.Y. unloads his family's vehicle. Lichtash moved into Clark Hall.
Noah Klein-Markman '13 of Berkley, Calif., unloads his belongings inside his Butterfield Residence Hall room at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 1. His parents, Laura Klein and Henry Markman, and brother, Sam, helped Noah move in.
Most students moved in between 9 a.m. and noon.
A Class of 2013 welcome picnic was held for new students and their families.
Ryan Gee ‘11, Sam Lyons, and Jim Degolia P ‘13 man an ITS Help Desk outside the Butterfield Residence Halls.
Andrus Field busy with incoming students.
Jacquelynn West '13, left, moves into Butterfield Residences with the help of her family.
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth '78 speaks to Class of 2013 students and families Sept. 1 in the Memorial Chapel. An outdoor reception followed the president's remarks and concluded Arrival Day 2009.
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