Great icebreaking activities during our 11am - 1pm registration time, including:

• Opportunity to participate in ‘What GS Meant to Me’ memory, video and story exchange
• See our new Governor's School 60th Anniversary video
• Specialty Anniversary Merchandise table available
• ‘Taylor Swift style’ GS bead bracelets, facilitated by Marilla Morrison
• ‘Speed Friending’ icebreakers, led by Laura Sam and Bob Davis

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Starting at 1pm, the main event will include:

Inspirational message from Kim Jones, NC Teacher of the Year and a former GS faculty member

Go back in time with an Area II class and electives led by GSE and GSW instructors

Unique photo and memory opportunities to be part of celebrating 60 years of GS

Updates on current and future developments with Governor's School

Class reunions by years/decades/campus

And of course, lots of fun reminiscing and catching up with your GS classmates!

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Our host location

The Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center, 420 High St SW, Winston-Salem, NC 27101

For hotel reservations, call the Hawthorne Inn directly at 336-777-3000 and reference the group name NC Governor's School Foundation Alumni Day. You may make reservations for either Friday, Dec. 8, Saturday, Dec. 9, or both nights. The event begins at 1:00pm and ends at 6:00pm, at which time alumni are encouraged to go out to dinner with their friends, classmates in downtown Winston-Salem.

And while it will be great catch up over lunch, dinner and drinks with other GS Alums, old and new friends, you can always make a day trip of it and skip the overnight stay entirely.