Our Virtual Common Room is a lively place where Raymond alumni and faculty come together online to talk on any subject—to reminisce, argue, learn, share, and continue the dialogue we started as young adults. Many of us have been talking to each other for over 50 years! We invite all former Raymond students and faculty to join our Virtual Common Room, the Raymond List Serve.

This is a free-roaming discussion list made available by our Raymond Phoenix Institute. You'll use your own prefered email account to post messages and read those from other Raymond community members.

Raymond alumni, past faculty and staff can sign up. Please follow the instructions on our How to Join Raymond Common Room Discussions page.

Feel free to bring up any subject that you would like to discuss into the wee small hours in the Common Room—or in the Great Hall, or the Quad, or even in a classroom...This is a great way to stay in contact with old friends as well as make a few new ones.

The Raymond Common Room One of the features of classic liberal arts colleges—from Oxford to Harvard—is the college Common Room. More formal than a lounge, the Common Room is a space built exclusively for the use of members of the college. Open throughout the day and night, the Raymond Common Room was the heart of the college, a place where discussions could go on for hours, students could read or play games, host plays, show movies, dance to music, argue politics, or launch new initiatives and projects.