Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

On April 20, some 275 members of the Class of 2013, whose Commencement will occur in Boston College’s sesquicentennial year, joined 90 faculty for an evening at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston that included tours, dinner, and a talk by Fr. Michael Himes (“the essence of a university is conversation”). The event was part of an ongoing celebration of the class’s benchmark 150th status. As freshmen, members received sesquicentennial SuperFan t-shirts. In 2011, the University arranged for Boston’s Museum of Science to be kept open after hours for the class on a night in spring. Above, settling in at their table and studying a book of quotes by President Kennedy that all attendees received, were (from left), Stephen Sullivan, Danny Gleason, Joanna Kassel, Samuel Kent, Robert Balint, and Bridget Thomas.