Class of ’85 40th Reunion 2025 REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

APRIL 22, 2025

April 22, 2025—REUNION UPDATE!!!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!!!!

Gentleman and Brothers,  IT IS TIME!!!!! I hope this email and post finds you all doing well. It is our 40th!!! Hard to believe that we left that bastion of Southern Gentlemenly Education on the Banks of the Ashley that long ago.  REUNION REGISTRATION is now open!!!!  Homecoming 2025 is November 13-16th but I hope you will make it an extended vacation starting on November 12th. We have great activities planned starting on November 13 with your choice of either a 1985 Golf Tournament (Best Ball, Captains Choice) at Patriots Point Links right by our NEW Hotel Headquarters, Embassy Suites Wharf Dr. Mt. Pleasant, SC or Skeet Shooting. If neither of those strike your fancy, you could enjoy touring the Holy City at your leisure that day before our Early Arrival Dinner that night at our Reunion Headquarters to kick the weekend off with a Bang!!!

Key reunion activities and highlights will include for the first time a ’85 Captains Choice Golf Tournament and luncheon at Patriots Point in Mt. Pleasant and a Skeet Shoot on Thursday (space limited to first 25 shooters to sign up and pay). This year we are changing it up on Friday Night to have our own Class of 1985 Senior Party.   We will be having a very special guest that you will not want to miss and Food and beverages outside under te tent and stars on the Charleston Harbor. Dress is casual and come ready to party likes its 1985!!!! Cocktails will start at 6:00 and There will be a short program at 7:00 with the Party to begin at 8:00. The company with the most classmates registered for the reunion will be awarded special prizes. Saturday morning is reserved for the typical on-campus slate of activities, including the open barracks, parade. Of course, Saturday, just prior to the game, we’ll have our World Famous Class of 1985 Tailgate BBQand open bar at Bastion Hall, The new Business School on campus and will form right there before we make our triumphant march into the stadium and make all the other classes jealous of our beastliness and all the ladies swoon!!! Saturday night following the football game will be left open for classmates to hook up with their old buddies (and girlfriends?).

The website and Class of 1985 Facebook group page are going to be our primary way of disseminating information about our reunion and class information. I will also be sending email with the updates but I only have 310 email addresses. When you register I will have your current email address. So please check the website often and on FB for updates. Many of you are on FB but we do not have a good email address for you. Please check the LOST DAWG page to insure you are not on the list or that you have good contact information for someone on the list. If you are please email me at [email protected] with your current email address and your Cadet company. Also, you can register and pay online for all class reunion activities.

Cost is $575 all in except hotel for our Classmate and $350 for each guest, spouse, children, etc… The Class website at www.citadel85.com and register and pay with debit or credit card or Apple Pay. The registration fee is mandatory to attend and comes with a Official Reunion shirt and Swag. You must select your size. All reunion events except golf or Skeet shooting are now included in your registration. The Golf Tournament or Skeet Shoot are extra and must be selected and added can be chosen to be added to your shopping cart. Also, please consider adding funds to the LOST DAWG item in increments of $50-$2500. This helped over 12 of our classmates that would not have been able to attend the last reunion but for you generous gifts.

Attached below is a Schedule of events for the Class of 1985.  My hope is that you and your family will make this a destination vacation for most of the week with events now starting on Wednesday thru Sunday November 12-16, 2025. We had approximately 270 classmates attend our 30th Reunion and 225 in the off year 36th Reunion and my hope and prayer is that we top 300 Classmates for the Monumental 40th.  PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND REGISTER NOW. We cannot finalize all our plans without the registration fees generated by each of you. The price of Registration goes up on August 15th by $100 and we must get all of our reunion merchandise(shirts, tailgate numbers, etc..) ordered by September 1st to insure that it will be here on time for the reunion and that we are not charged a surcharge by any of our vendors for late orders.

Please plan to stay at the Reunion Headquarters!!!!! We have 125 rooms set aside for November 13-16 at special pricing at Reunion Headquarters, Embassy Suites 100 Ferry Wharf Drive Mt. Pleasant, SC. If you are planning on coming in on November 12th. you can edit your stay and add it to your reservation by selecting that date for check-in.

Here is the link directly to book online

https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/citadel40thclassreunion2025/

Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Harbor
100 Ferry Wharf Road
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

843-981-5700 Hotel
843-867-3886 Direct
843-834-9068 Cell
[email protected]
embassycharleston.com

Please book soon so we can ask them for additional rooms so we can all gather there. We have to give up any remaining rooms by August or be charged for them. Also. If we need more from booking early, We might be able to get more if available. I have also secured permission for the bar to stay open late just for us on Friday and Saturday. Please direct all of our classmates to the Website or Facebook page (The Citadel Class of 1985) for information and updates and you can forward this email to any that do not receive it. I will also post the as announcement of the Class FB page.

Schedule of Events for 40th Reunion Class of 1985

Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
Early Arrival and Checkin, Embassy Suites Charleston Harbor, Mt. Pleasant, SC

Thursday, November 13, 2025
9:00 AM-2:30PM Class of 1985 Golf Tournament-Patriots Point Golf Links, Mt. Pleasant, SC

12:00-4:00 PM Class of 1985 Sporting Clays and Skeet shoot in Charleston. Limited to 25 shooters, half guilty and innocent non-shooting hecklers allowed. Must bring own Shotgun or Tradeoff/borrow from a classmate

6:30 PM Early arrivals–—-Cocktails and Dinner at Embassy Suites Mt. Pleasant. Cocktails start at 6:30 at bar, then at 7 we have a private room for dinner with a fixed menu. Early Registration pickup

Friday, November 14th, 2025

12:00-3:00 PM Registration and Package Pickup at Embassy Suite 2d Floor Lobby and Boardroom. Must have pre-registered and paid in full to receive reunion items and tickets.

5:10 PM Twilight Afternoon Parade Summerall Field

6:00-10:00 PM Class of 1985 Senior Party at Embassy Suites Charleston Harbor–Dress is casual. Heavy Hors d’oeuvres will be served and cash bars set up. Live music from very special Musical band. Must be pre-registered and paid

10:00PM -Until AM Reunion Headquarters bar in hotel open for us.

Saturday, November 15th, 2025

8:30-10:00 AM Open Barracks on campus

8:50 AM Summerall Guard Performance—-Parade Ground

11:00 AM Homecoming Parade

11:30-3:30 PM Class of 1985 Tailgate Party —Bastian Hall. Must be pre-registered and pre-paid to attend. Open Bar and Buffet. In order to be served food, you must have a ticket to the tailgate party which will be in your registration package and collected as you go through the line. In order to purchase any alcoholic beverages at bar, you must be pre-registered and pre-paid and will receive a bracelet in your registration package. You will not be allowed to purchase any alcoholic beverages without the open bar bracelet.

1:15 Line up for March into Stadium

2:00-5:00 PM The Citadel vs. Wofford——Homecoming Football game. Must be pre-registered and pre-paid to receive football tickets which will be in your registration package. Please show proper decorum during march into the stadium and do not bring any flags or banners to march into the stadium that would bring discredit upon the Class of 1985, The Citadel or the State of South Carolina. Be respectful of all classmates and differences of opinions.

4:00-6:00 PM After game Tailgate Tent to remain open. No food or beverages will be served.

7:00-Until Fellowship with class and company mates on your own.

10:00PM -Until Reunion Headquarters bar in hotel open for us.

Sunday, November 16th, 2025

9:00 AM Protestant services Summerall Chapel

10:45 AM Catholic Mass Summerall Chapel