SAVE THE DATE: Join us for Naz Weekend 2025, September 19-21, 2025!

Naz Weekend 2024 Highlights

“Look around you at our community, our country, and our world. Our world has many needs. It really needs Nazareth. It needs us to respond in new, creative, and courageous ways…. I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud of a university than this one, even though I never had the opportunity to attend here. Naz is such a gift.”

— Mary Lou Mitchell, SSJ, Ph.D., congregational president, Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester, and member, Nazareth University board of trustees, speaking during the Centennial Jubilee

Celebrating & creating new memories

    Enjoy this 2-minute recap of the weekend! 

    Centennial Jubilee

      Presidential Medallion honorees, "One Hundred Strong," & more

      Jubilee program pdf

      Watch on YouTube for time-stamped links to specific moments (in the description on YouTube).

      70+

      events

      2,500+

      people

      100

      years

      Photos

      Alumni award recipients pose for a group photo outside

      Alumni Awards

      Current & two former Naz presidents pose at the Centennial Gala at Country Club of Rochester at

      Centennial Gala

      Jack Allocco conducts dozens of musicians performing the piece he composed

      Centennial Jubilee

      Multi-colored fireworks erupt by the NAZ letter and Smyth Hall

      Centennial Soiree & Fireworks

      Bottles of Naz centennial whisky on display

      Centennial Tastings Happy Hour

      Class members hold Class of 1974 sign at their 50th Reunion

      Class of 1974 50th Reunion

      Class of 1964 poses for a group photo at their 60th reunion

      Class of 1964 60th Reunion

      Downtown Rochester buildings lit up in purple, Frederick Douglass statue in foreground

      Downtown in Purple

      People sit at purple-topped tables near a line of parked food trucks

      Food Truck Rodeo & Games

      Former faculty & staff pose in a group with their arms out and big smiles

      Former Faculty-Staff Luncheon

      People pack the new Heritage Hallway in Golisano Academic Center to view the history wall opening

      Heritage Hallway

      Jack Allocco poses by the new display of his donated guitar in Glazer Music Performance Center

      Jack Allocco Guitar Display

      An adult attaches a legacy pin to the shirt of a relative who's a Naz student, by a Naz backdrop

      Legacy Pinning

      People pose with an inclusive pride flag of yellow, pink, light blue, brown, & primary colors

      LGBTQIA+ Affinity Gathering

      Two people pose with ice cream with inflatables and Golisano Academic Center behind

      Naz Fest

      A family poses at a table at the Parent & Family Breakfast

      Parent & Family Breakfast

      Patricia Schoelles speaks at the chapel podium, a Shannon Centennial Summit lecture

      Shannon Centennial Summits

      10 alumni athlete honorees hold their new plaques with photos of them as athletes

      Sports Hall of Fame

       
       
       
      “This is the moment when we close the first century and start the next…. Let us feel the stirrings of excitement as our powerful and beautiful future begins to emerge…. Nazareth University, our story has just begun, even though we are a century old, so let’s keep on celebrating.”

      — Beth Paul, Ph.D., Nazareth University president