The alumni are coming—are we ready?

Food is ordered. Shuttle buses are lined up. Name tags are sorted. PowerPoint is tested. We know they’re on their way — from LaJolla and Lexington and Ladue — back to the School of Medicine with hopes and expectations, maybe some trepidation. Perhaps it’s been a while since they’ve been together. Or things look a little too different. But each can look back across a medical career to this place where it all began — glancing around an auditorium or down a hall and seeing the faces of those who shared in the labs and lectures and laughs. They’ll be here, too: the lab partners, the roommates, the friends. The classmates will be here—that’s all we need. Here they come. Scanning the crowd for the faces from 10, 35, 60 years ago. Aha! Welcome back.