Registration Open for 2025 SUNY Plattsburgh Homecoming/Family Weekend

For the second year in a row, SUNY Plattsburgh alumni will have the chance to meet and mingle with future grads at the combined Homecoming/Family Weekend event Friday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Sept. 28.

The weekend begins Friday when alumni and families are invited to enjoy the view of campus from 10 floors up during a reception on Kehoe’s top floor, which features spectacular vistas of the Adirondacks, campus, Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains. Light refreshments will be served.

During the same time period, noon-4 p.m. Friday, the Plattsburgh State Art Museum galleries will be open for self-guided tours. Visitors can enjoy exhibits in the Myers Fine Arts Building and Feinberg Library.

"Alumni and families will recognize some of the Homecoming traditions like the bonfire, welcome-back social at the Monopole and the Fall Festival," said Kerry Chapin-Lavigne, director of alumni affairs. "There'll also be family-friendly entertainment such as ice skating with Burghy, Cardinal Family BINGO Night, and a fun run and walk.

"This year, in addition to the bonfire, there will be Dueling Pianos Saturday evening following the Homecoming Italian buffet dinner," she said.

Chapin-Lavigne mentioned the Class of 1975 — 50th anniversary class — during the weekend with a special wine-and-cheese reception and other shout-outs for having been inducted into the Golden Anniversary Club.

"The weekend will also include special events to celebrate fraternity and sorority life, athletics, academic and support programs," Chapin-Lavigne said.

Other events throughout the weekend include tours, open house receptions in offices and departments like career development where visitors can enjoy cookies and conversation about all they offer students and how alumni can help with internships, mentoring and more.

Presidents’ Reception

An invitation-only Presidents’ Reception will be held Friday from 4 to 5:30 in the lobby of Myers Fine Arts Building where University President Alexander Enyedi and his wife and SUNY associate, Andrea, as well as Peter Gerney ’83, president, Plattsburgh College Foundation, will meet and greet Foundation Heritage Society and leadership donors.

The Class of 1975 will be feted at a reunion dinner Friday night beginning at 5:30 in the Alumni Conference Room, Angell College Center. Cost is $35 per person with a cash bar available. All members of the five-decades club are welcome to catch up, share stories and reconnect.

A Homecoming staple that honors and recognizes the athletes who made a mark during their Cardinal careers will be held Friday beginning at 6 p.m. in the Warren Ballrooms, Angell College Center.

Being honored at the Cardinal Athletic Hall of Fame dinner and induction will be:

• Earl Burnell ’65 — Soccer, baseball, track and field
• Allison Era ’14 — Ice hockey
• Chris Fess ’94 — Ice hockey
• Dan Schaly ’92 — Ice hockey
• Geoff Spear ’85 — Assistant men’s and women’s soccer coach: Posthumous inductee
• Timothy Stanley ’07 — Soccer
• Amelia Woo ’10 — Softball

Cost is $30 for adults, $15 children under 12. 

The Fall Festival and Biergarten will be held Saturday, Sept. 27 from noon to 3 in the Amite Plaza and Angell College Center Courtyard with inside the ACC as a rain location. A family-friendly event, the festival will include vendors, food trucks, dance groups, pumpkin painting, lawn games, a live DJ, photo booth and more.

During the Fall Festival, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will host an open house in the HUB from noon to 2 p.m. with face painting, painting, puzzles, cotton candy and popcorn and more.

The fun run and walk and Homecoming and Family Weekend farewell brunch wraps up the weekend, with the run/walk at 8:30 a.m. with an 8:15 a.m. check-in at Memorial Hall Field and brunch running 9 a.m. to noon in Clinton Dining Hall. Cost for the run is $5 per person; brunch is $12 per person at the door.

For more information, including registration, visit https://alumni.plattsburgh.edu/s/1603/bp19/interior.aspx?sid=1603&gid=1&pgid=3246#gsc.tab=0 or call 518-564-2090.

— Story by Associate Director of Communications Gerianne Downs

— 2024 Homecoming/Family Weekend Photos by Multimedia Coordinator Hunter Mossey