Alumni Weekend 2026
In-person SwatTalk featuring (from left): Alumni Council President Jim Sailer ’90; Mattathias Schwartz ’01, legal affairs correspondent for The New York Times; Eva McKend ’11, former CNN national politics reporter;and Jason Zengerle ’96, staff writer for The New Yorker.
Mattathias Schwartz ’01
Alumni Council President Jim Sailer ’90 opens the Collection
Alan Symonette ’76 gave this year’s Collection Address, “Rooted: Reflections on Community While at and After Swarthmore”
Rich Truit ’66 received the Joseph B. Shane ’25 Alumni Service Award
Rich Truit ’66
Naomi Zikmund-Fisher ’91 received the Arabella Carter Community Service Award
Naomi Zikmund-Fisher ’91
Donald Lloyd-Jones ’86, P’22 received the Eugene M. Lang ’38, H’81 Impact Award
Donald Lloyd-Jones ’86, P’22
Members of Sixteen Feet took to the stage to close out Collection by singing the Alma Mater
John Alston H’15 gave his final performance with the Chester Children's Chorus before his upcoming retirement in August
Tom Whitman '82, Co-Director of the Swarthmore College Gamelan Semara Santi, and John Alston H'15
SBAN at Robinson House
Parade of Classes
Class of 1951
Class of 1956
Class of 1961
Class of 1966
Class of 1968
Class of 1970
Class of 1971
Class of 1976
Class of 1978
Class of 1979
Class of 1981
Class of 1986
Class of 1990
Class of 1991
Class of 1996
Class of 2001
Class of 2006
Class of 2011
Class of 2016
Class of 2020
Class of 2021