A Segway-riding President Brody gets acquainted with some of the members of the class of 2007 as they arrive on the Homewood campus.

The class of '007 arrives at Homewood to start its undergrad adventure

By Greg Rienzi
The Gazette

The upperclassmen's T-shirts — bearing a suave, tuxedo-clad JHU Blue Jay — sent the day's message: "Class of 2007, welcome," they said, "to Hopkins, Johns Hopkins." Playing up the James Bond theme, movie scores spun by the recently reborn WJHU provided background music as the 1,052 incoming freshmen moved onto the Homewood campus on Friday and Saturday.

Nobody did it better than the army of student volunteers who performed the odd job for parents: hauling out bin upon bin of top-secret student gear bound for the residence halls.

While Dr. No was nowhere in sight, university President William R. Brody and his wife, Wendy, were on hand to greet parents, maneuvering around the lined-up cars on matching Segways, those high-tech, self-balancing vehicles that seem straight out of a Bond film.

For a look at the move-in and more about the class of 2007, see "007: The Adventure Begins," this issue.

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