FORMING A REUNION COMMITTEE 1. Start about 9 months to a year ahead with a committee of about 8-10.
2. Ask one of the people to be the treasurer to collect the money, pay the bills and purchase supplies. Supplies can include: stationary, postage, printing and web hosting.
3. You also need one to gather the information from attendees and make the reunion booklet for handout.
4. One might be in charge of reserving facilities, paying deposits and catering.
5. One should be in charge of decorations and favors or souvenirs or momentos, trivia sheets and ice breakers.
6. Someone should be in charge of registration, welcoming and name tags.
7. You need someone to handle publicity, mailers and emails.
8. If your class is short of funds, your committee might try to find a classmate who would take photos. You might also arrange for your school's current photography club, newspaper photographers, or yearbook photographers to attend your reunion and take candid photos.
9. The committee should pick a classmate to be the master of ceremonies at the events and tour leader.
10. The committee should decide on whether to have a theme and if so what it should be.
11. The committee decides on a date.
12. Your committee should be made up of classmates who live in town. When you gather them don't just call on classmates you know. A variety of different groups, i.e., sports, band, drama, class officers, etc. will give you a lot of different ideas.
13. If you had previous reunions find who had the paperwork from that one to build on. If not be sure and keep records and bank account statements for future use.
School Reunion Planning Tips 1. Plan a date depending on the age of your class. If you are of the age with children in school you will want to choose a Summer date. If children would be grown a Fall date is good. Statistics show 23% of reunions are in July and 21% in August.
2. If you are having a theme you might want your stationary, decorations and directory booklet to use the same theme.
3. Plan an entire weekend around your reunion, since many attendees will be traveling from out of town solely for the event.
4. When making name tags, make copies of pictures from the annual and paste the classs picture on the tag. This is fun and helps everyone recognize each other.
5. Create a website for an easy way to keep everyone informed of the reunion plans. Attendees can respond with information, pictures and emails. Place forms, reservation sheets, agendas, memorium lists and lost classmate information online. Consider password protecting bios and other personal information.
6. Send out postcards announcing the date at least 12 months ahead so people can start planning and save for traveling.
7. Place "RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED" above the recipient address on the postcard. This way if their address has changed the card will be returned with an address correction, if available. Print the website address and explain that a reservation and agenda letter will follow with costs and details.
8. You might invite former teachers that still live in town.
9. Reunions should be more casual, relaxing and comfortable, the older you get.
10. When you send out your reservation letter ask questions for a reunion booklet.
11. Consider age when planning events. For 50 plus reunions you probably don't want to have tours that have lots of walking. Then again if you are having a 5 year reunion you might want to plan games at a picnic.
12. You will want to set a fee for couples, a fee for singles, a fee for the full weekend and a fee for one event. Give a definite deadline for reservations and payment. Because you have to rent halls and pay catering you need to emphasize you cannot issue refunds for those who cannot attend.
13. Ask those who cannot attend to send a picture/biography and then create a bulletin board or web page with pictures of those who could not be there.
14. Book all locations months in advance so you are sure to have the best locations.
15. Check local hotels and motels for the best rates and list a few, with their cost, address, phone, fax so classmates can make reservations.
16. You can plan a reunion at the same time as a local centennial or yearly town event. Just make sure you will be able to get room reservations for everyone attending.
17. Place disposable cameras at every table and continually have your MC make announcements reminding attendees to take candid photos of each other. Once the reunion is over, post photos on a website and send links to everyone.
18. Designate different people on your committee to handle assorted projects. Have one main coordinator.
19. Plan your food menu early and book caterers months ahead.
20. Tracking down lost classmates and addresses can be the toughest project so start as soon as possible. October 1, 2009 3:46 AM
1. In your search for classmates, look at last reunion classmate information.
2. Contact families that still live in town when you are looking for lost classmates.
3. Following is an extensive listing of on-line resources for finding people. Many are not free.
4. Check with your local Alumni Association for classmate addresses.
5. Graduates.com - A free alumni web site. Registration allows you to add a profile, contact class members by email, view and post to message boards, and view member profiles. (no subscription fee)
6. Class Quest - providing comprehensive research, data and internet services for Reunion Planners.
7. GradFinder.com - A free alumni web site. Registration allows you to add a profile, contact class members by email, view and post to message boards, and view member profiles. (no subscription fee)
8. Classmates.com - This site allows you to register and add a profile for free. In addition, a free membership allows you to receive messages from other members, view partial member profiles, and view message boards. Sending a message to a member, viewing full member profiles, and posting to the message boards requires a paid membership. ($36/year)
9. Classmates also allows the reunion organizer (with a Gold membership) to designate themself as the "reunion contact." The reunion contact then has the ability to post reunion details, send a reunion announcement and reminders to all class members registered with Classmates.
10. Reunion.com/HighSchoolAlumni.com - This site allows you to register, add a profile, view and post to message boards for free. However, sending and receiving messages to other class members, and viewing member profiles all require a paid membership. ($24/year)
11. Note: A reverse search/look-up allows you to enter a phone number or address to get other info.
12. AnyWho AT&T's online national white pages. Search by name to find people; search by name and address to confirm an address, search by phone number and name to get an address.
13. Internet Address Finder (IAF) - email search and white pages
14. Bigfoot - email search and white pages
15. Switchboard.com - email search and white pages
16. InfoSpace - email search, white pages, and reverse search
17. Infobel World - international listings
18. Return Path Registry of current and former email addresses. (Users must register their email address change.) Search on an old (invalid) email address to find the person's current address.
19. Newspaper Archives Check with your local library to find out which databases are available to library patrons online, such as free newspaper archives. These sites are often linked from the county library's website. In addition, most major newspapers have an archive on their web site. However, only the last two weeks worth of articles are available for free.
20. Search Engines Searching for names through search engines can sometimes turn up a personal, business, or college web site that will help you locate the person. Following are some of the most popular search engines. Google AltaVista Yahoo! Lycos
21. Places to look for possibly deceased classmates: Obits Social Security death index Cyndi's List
FUNDRAISING FOR YOUR REUNION 1. Let local businesses sponsor your tables. In exchange for a contribution (maybe Php300 per table), put a placard in the center of the table which displayed the company name and info about the company.You could get a bit fancy and include their company logo. In addition, you can list the table sponsors in your reunion program, thank them when you do your announcements, prominently display a poster near the check-in table with all sponsor names, and put their names and hyperlinks on your web site.
2. Trash The Yard - Get a few people to dress up in ragged clothes. Find an old pickup truck and fill the back with yard junk. Some pink flamingoes, a toilet, car parts (preferably rusty but don't cut yourself!), whatever you might find in a cluttered messy lawn. Get some tacky lawn chairs and head out to the homes of your friends and neighbors when you know they are home. Then you pile all the stuff on the front lawn, sit yourself down and wave at passing cars and neighbors to draw attention. An added touch is an old guitar that you strum as everyone sings old country songs--loudly. In order for you to go away, the home owner has to make a donation to your cause. They definitely will! 3. Auction A Dinner - Ask for volunteers to make a single dinner. Supply the take out containers to package them into. (Pork Chops, Mashed Potatoes, a vegetable and roll) Pick a night to hold the auction. Everyone brings their dinners on that particular night. Arrange all dinners on a table so the people can see what they are bidding on. The "auctioneer" then starts the bidding. Most dinners start at $5.00 ea. You would be amazed at how much a particular dinner could go for!
4. Jar of Coins - Give a mason jar to each participant and have them drop loose coins in for several months prior to event and turn the jar in before so money can be counted.
5. Take pictures - Everybody loves to see themselves in a picture. Have everybody pose, all ham it up for a group photo, etc. and email them in for the project website. Then have other members give a dollar to their favorite picture. Have categories so people will be voting on more than just one, i.e., the best, the goofiest, the worst dressed, etc.
1. Don't get all undone if you are not the best looking, most perfect shaped person to go to the reunion!! BE YOURSELF is the most important thing. Everyone else has aged just like you.
2. Don't stress out if you have gained weight, there will be lots of others there who have.
3. If you are still wearing your hair like you did in school, it will be fun to get a new style for the reunion.
4. If you have gotten a little over weight and it bothers you and you have time before the reunion - set up as schedule at the Y or a gym (with permission of your physician) and do some working out
1. Do not have loud music, after all people come to visit and renew old friendships and they hate to have to talk loudly over the sound. (as you get older the chances of seeing people again gets less so make it where they can talk, after all you can listen to music anytime!).
2. Don't plan lots of dancing as you will undoubtedly have single people with no dancing partners.
3. Don't plan lots of formal events. The more casual the event, the more people seem to enjoy themselves. Also travelling with formal clothes takes up time with pressing and cleaning, etc.
4. Do have gifts for the person who came the furthest, the one who has the most kids, who has never been married, etc.
5. Do leave your crisis history (divorces, operations, etc) at home. share your joys and adventures.
6. Don't spend all your time catching up with those you’ve already known, reach out to those you haven’t seen in years. Even if you weren’t friends with them in high school, you might find, as adults, you have more things in common.
1. Let your website run for a few months with pictures from the reunion. If you can afford it keep website up permanently and update as people give you information.
2. Ask for ideas/recommendations for the next reunion
3. If this is the first reunion make a box of cards with information on each classmate. With these you can update as the years go on. Have someone keep them who will be responsible for checking obits and making update on the cards.
4. You might hand out cards to each classmate with a reminder to let you know if they move or change email. Recommend they keep these cards in their address book.
5. As you get older pay close attention to hometown obituaries for classmate names.
6. Keep any left over monies in an account that will draw you some interest.
7. Have someone keep all the records of the reunion such as budget, payments, letters of registration, etc., in one place.
When the reunion is over it is fun to have a booklet to look back on. We are giving you a guideline for a really great booklet. It is recommended to turn your paper sideways and therefore have pages back to front and make a smaller booklet. Cover page …………
(the following is centered)
Negros Oriental High School Class of 1996 10th Year Reunion (You might add a picture of the school or some clipart, i.e., fifties car or kids dancing for a 50’s class reunion.)
Page 1……….
“The folks who put this reunion together”:
(list the names of your committee members)
“What we did” (list the schedule of events that you did)
Page 2……..
“IN MEMORIUM”
(you might use this poem then list the classmates who have passed away): I cannot think of them as dead who walk with me no more.. Along the path of life I tread They have but gone before.
Page 3………
“Looking back at 1996”
(here you might list what was in the news that year, the cost of some groceries, what were the top movies, tv shows and singers, etc)
Page 4………..
“Class Trivia”
(This can be the results of information that you got from classmates on your information letter they sent back, i.e., _____classmates answered. We have produced _______children. ________have been overseas. __________has been married the longest with ________years. _________still live in our hometown.
(in your invitation letter, if you asked them to tell you what their occupation was or is you can list it like thisJ
Engineers….30 Chemist…..10 Teacher……..20 Etc, etc
Page 5……..
“Those Who Let Us Know What They Are Doing”
(this will come from the information letters you send out. Suggested format isJ
Last name, First, Middle (Maiden Name of Female) – address, phone number, married to______for_____years.___Children______grandchildren. What she does in her spare time. Her email address. Something she remembers fondly from high school. Plus list any other information they sent. (Recommended put in alphabetically by last name they had in school)
Post Card Alert For Date Of Reunion First send a post card alerting the class so they can plan on that date and send it out as soon as you have all your names and addresses gathered up. Example: The Negros Oriental High School Class of _1996_ will be holding its ______ year reunion on ______________, in ___________________ Please keep this date open because we’d love to see you! We'd like to hear from you to be sure we have the correct address for future mailings. You can either send a post card to John Doe, 2006 Broadway, Billsville, OK or email us at: ________________. October 1, 2009 4:16 AM
Information Letter and Reservation Form NOHS Class of 1996(logo if you have one) is having a ________year class reunion and you are invited to attend. Our agenda for the reunion is as follows:
(list events, places, time and cost if any)
We would like to find out what you have been up to since the last time we saw you so we can share the information with your classmates. Your full name:________________________________________________________ Address:__________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________ Your marital status___________Spouse (if one) name:________________________________________________________________ No,. of children______________grandchildren____________________pets you consider kids_________________________ Still working?? ____________. Doing what?_______________________________________________________________
___________ Retired after how many years??__________________of doing what??__________________________________________ Has something exciting happened to you since the last reunion? (i.e., new knees, got married again, they are still letting you drive, etc.)__________________________________________________________________________ What do you do in your spare time?________________________________________________________________________________ If you have an email address please list it. (we promise not to sell it)__________________________________
RESERVATION FORM Cost per person for all events_________ Cost per couple for all events__________
(you will want a cost for the last big event for people who cannot attend the other days or cheaper events)
Cost per person for only final evening event_________ Cost per couple for only final evening event__________ Reservation Form (Due NLT________________________) Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ( ) I or ( ) we (status of other person so no one will ask if you brought your child with you) will attend the reunion and I am enclosing the amount of PhP______________________ ( ) I cannot attend but will send a letter and photo to post so you will know I am still alive and kicking Make checks/money orders payable to “Class of _1996” and mail to Class of ________, P O Box ___________ If you have questions email__________ or call_____________ . October 1, 2009 4:20 AM
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20 REUNION IDEAS & TIPS
1. Start planning your reunion at least 12 months prior to the event. Book events, entertainment and hotels early.
2. Form a reunion committee or group of family members. Give each member a specific task or mission to accomplish.
3. Choose individuals from many different groups, section or current residence location.
4. Set up a bank account, P.O. Box, phone number and email address if needed.
5. Compile a list of attendee names and addresses that you already know.
6. Build a reunion website, MySpace, Facebook or other online account. List events, missing folks and old pictures.
7. Pick a theme for the reunion. Choose different themes for different nights.
8. Choose and post your reunion dates and times.
9. Create a group to search for missing classmates or family members. Post lost names online.
10. Consider age of attendees for event planning, activities, games and themes.
11. Plan and book events and tours in advance.
12. Reserve reunion sites and caterers.
13. List dates in local newspaper/Alumni Assoc and online.
14. Send out announcement postcards at 10 months and reservation letters at 6 months.
15. Ask attendees to send a current photo and place on the website. People love looking at the pictures.
16. Query class or section for a great photographer.
17. Beware of booking loud music. Attendees want to visit and renew friendships.
18. Don't plan as though everyone is married or bringing children.
19. Don't plan anything too formal. Many attendess will be uncomfortable in dressing up and may skip that event.
20. Plan on doing a booklet or scrapbook with bios or a cd of the reunion for attendees.
posted by: Edgar "Kim" Ramirez II
FORMING A REUNION COMMITTEE
1. Start about 9 months to a year ahead with a committee of about 8-10.
2. Ask one of the people to be the treasurer to collect the money, pay the bills and purchase supplies.
Supplies can include: stationary, postage, printing and web hosting.
3. You also need one to gather the information from attendees and make the reunion booklet for handout.
4. One might be in charge of reserving facilities, paying deposits and catering.
5. One should be in charge of decorations and favors or souvenirs or momentos, trivia sheets and ice breakers.
6. Someone should be in charge of registration, welcoming and name tags.
7. You need someone to handle publicity, mailers and emails.
8. If your class is short of funds, your committee might try to find a classmate who would take photos. You might also arrange for your school's current photography club, newspaper photographers, or yearbook photographers to attend your reunion and take candid photos.
9. The committee should pick a classmate to be the master of ceremonies at the events and tour leader.
10. The committee should decide on whether to have a theme and if so what it should be.
11. The committee decides on a date.
12. Your committee should be made up of classmates who live in town. When you gather them don't just call on classmates you know. A variety of different groups, i.e., sports, band, drama, class officers, etc. will give you a lot of different ideas.
13. If you had previous reunions find who had the paperwork from that one to build on. If not be sure and keep records and bank account statements for future use.
posted by: edgar
School Reunion Planning Tips
1. Plan a date depending on the age of your class. If you are of the age with children in school you will want to choose a Summer date. If children would be grown a Fall date is good. Statistics show 23% of reunions are in July and 21% in August.
2. If you are having a theme you might want your stationary, decorations and directory booklet to use the same theme.
3. Plan an entire weekend around your reunion, since many attendees will be traveling from out of town solely for the event.
4. When making name tags, make copies of pictures from the annual and paste the classs picture on the tag. This is fun and helps everyone recognize each other.
5. Create a website for an easy way to keep everyone informed of the reunion plans. Attendees can respond with information, pictures and emails. Place forms, reservation sheets, agendas, memorium lists and lost classmate information online. Consider password protecting bios and other personal information.
6. Send out postcards announcing the date at least 12 months ahead so people can start planning and save for traveling.
7. Place "RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED" above the recipient address on the postcard. This way if their address has changed the card will be returned with an address correction, if available. Print the website address and explain that a reservation and agenda letter will follow with costs and details.
8. You might invite former teachers that still live in town.
9. Reunions should be more casual, relaxing and comfortable, the older you get.
10. When you send out your reservation letter ask questions for a reunion booklet.
11. Consider age when planning events. For 50 plus reunions you probably don't want to have tours that have lots of walking. Then again if you are having a 5 year reunion you might want to plan games at a picnic.
12. You will want to set a fee for couples, a fee for singles, a fee for the full weekend and a fee for one event. Give a definite deadline for reservations and payment. Because you have to rent halls and pay catering you need to emphasize you cannot issue refunds for those who cannot attend.
13. Ask those who cannot attend to send a picture/biography and then create a bulletin board or web page with pictures of those who could not be there.
14. Book all locations months in advance so you are sure to have the best locations.
15. Check local hotels and motels for the best rates and list a few, with their cost, address, phone, fax so classmates can make reservations.
16. You can plan a reunion at the same time as a local centennial or yearly town event. Just make sure you will be able to get room reservations for everyone attending.
17. Place disposable cameras at every table and continually have your MC make announcements reminding attendees to take candid photos of each other. Once the reunion is over, post photos on a website and send links to everyone.
18. Designate different people on your committee to handle assorted projects. Have one main coordinator.
19. Plan your food menu early and book caterers months ahead.
20. Tracking down lost classmates and addresses can be the toughest project so start as soon as possible.
October 1, 2009 3:46 AM
TIPS FOR FINDING LOST CLASSMATES
1. In your search for classmates, look at last reunion classmate information.
2. Contact families that still live in town when you are looking for lost classmates.
3. Following is an extensive listing of on-line resources for finding people. Many are not free.
4. Check with your local Alumni Association for classmate addresses.
5. Graduates.com -
A free alumni web site. Registration allows you to add a profile, contact class members by email, view and post to message boards, and view member profiles. (no subscription fee)
6. Class Quest -
providing comprehensive research, data and internet services for Reunion Planners.
7. GradFinder.com -
A free alumni web site. Registration allows you to add a profile, contact class members by email, view and post to message boards, and view member profiles. (no subscription fee)
8. Classmates.com -
This site allows you to register and add a profile for free. In addition, a free membership allows you to receive messages from other members, view partial member profiles, and view message boards. Sending a message to a member, viewing full member profiles, and posting to the message boards requires a paid membership. ($36/year)
9. Classmates also allows the reunion organizer (with a Gold membership) to designate themself as the "reunion contact." The reunion contact then has the ability to post reunion details, send a reunion announcement and reminders to all class members registered with Classmates.
10. Reunion.com/HighSchoolAlumni.com -
This site allows you to register, add a profile, view and post to message boards for free. However, sending and receiving messages to other class members, and viewing member profiles all require a paid membership. ($24/year)
11. Note: A reverse search/look-up allows you to enter a phone number or address to get other info.
12. AnyWho
AT&T's online national white pages. Search by name to find people; search by name and address to confirm an address, search by phone number and name to get an address.
13. Internet Address Finder (IAF) - email search and white pages
14. Bigfoot - email search and white pages
15. Switchboard.com - email search and white pages
16. InfoSpace - email search, white pages, and reverse search
17. Infobel World - international listings
18. Return Path
Registry of current and former email addresses. (Users must register their email address change.) Search on an old (invalid) email address to find the person's current address.
19. Newspaper Archives
Check with your local library to find out which databases are available to library patrons online, such as free newspaper archives. These sites are often linked from the county library's website. In addition, most major newspapers have an archive on their web site. However, only the last two weeks worth of articles are available for free.
20. Search Engines
Searching for names through search engines can sometimes turn up a personal, business, or college web site that will help you locate the person. Following are some of the most popular search engines.
Google
AltaVista
Yahoo!
Lycos
21. Places to look for possibly deceased classmates:
Obits
Social Security death index
Cyndi's List
FUNDRAISING FOR YOUR REUNION
1. Let local businesses sponsor your tables. In exchange for a contribution (maybe Php300 per table), put a placard in the center of the table which displayed the company name and info about the company.You could get a bit fancy and include their company logo. In addition, you can list the table sponsors in your reunion program, thank them when you do your announcements, prominently display a poster near the check-in table with all sponsor names, and put their names and hyperlinks on your web site.
2. Trash The Yard - Get a few people to dress up in ragged clothes. Find an old pickup truck and fill the back with yard junk. Some pink flamingoes, a toilet, car parts (preferably rusty but don't cut yourself!), whatever you might find in a cluttered messy lawn. Get some tacky lawn chairs and head out to the homes of your friends and neighbors when you know they are home. Then you pile all the stuff on the front lawn, sit yourself down and wave at passing cars and neighbors to draw attention. An added touch is an old guitar that you strum as everyone sings old country songs--loudly. In order for you to go away, the home owner has to make a donation to your cause. They definitely will!
3. Auction A Dinner - Ask for volunteers to make a single dinner. Supply the take out containers to package them into. (Pork Chops, Mashed Potatoes, a vegetable and roll) Pick a night to hold the auction. Everyone brings their dinners on that particular night. Arrange all dinners on a table so the people can see what they are bidding on. The "auctioneer" then starts the bidding. Most dinners start at $5.00 ea. You would be amazed at how much a particular dinner could go for!
4. Jar of Coins - Give a mason jar to each participant and have them drop loose coins in for several months prior to event and turn the jar in before so money can be counted.
5. Take pictures - Everybody loves to see themselves in a picture. Have everybody pose, all ham it up for a group photo, etc. and email them in for the project website. Then have other members give a dollar to their favorite picture. Have categories so people will be voting on more than just one, i.e., the best, the goofiest, the worst dressed, etc.
HOW TO GET IN SHAPE FOR YOUR REUNION
1. Don't get all undone if you are not the best looking, most perfect shaped person to go to the reunion!! BE YOURSELF is the most important thing. Everyone else has aged just like you.
2. Don't stress out if you have gained weight, there will be lots of others there who have.
3. If you are still wearing your hair like you did in school, it will be fun to get a new style for the reunion.
4. If you have gotten a little over weight and it bothers you and you have time before the reunion - set up as schedule at the Y or a gym (with permission of your physician) and do some working out
REUNION DO'S AND DON'TS
1. Do not have loud music, after all people come to visit and renew old friendships and they hate to have to talk loudly over the sound. (as you get older the chances of seeing people again gets less so make it where they can talk, after all you can listen to music anytime!).
2. Don't plan lots of dancing as you will undoubtedly have single people with no dancing partners.
3. Don't plan lots of formal events. The more casual the event, the more people seem to enjoy themselves. Also travelling with formal clothes takes up time with pressing and cleaning, etc.
4. Do have gifts for the person who came the furthest, the one who has the most kids, who has never been married, etc.
5. Do leave your crisis history (divorces, operations, etc) at home. share your joys and adventures.
6. Don't spend all your time catching up with those you’ve already known, reach out to those you haven’t seen in years. Even if you weren’t friends with them in high school, you might find, as adults, you have more things in common.
POST REUNION IDEAS
1. Let your website run for a few months with pictures from the reunion. If you can afford it keep website up permanently and update as people give you information.
2. Ask for ideas/recommendations for the next reunion
3. If this is the first reunion make a box of cards with information on each classmate. With these you can update as the years go on. Have someone keep them who will be responsible for checking obits and making update on the cards.
4. You might hand out cards to each classmate with a reminder to let you know if they move or change email. Recommend they keep these cards in their address book.
5. As you get older pay close attention to hometown obituaries for classmate names.
6. Keep any left over monies in an account that will draw you some interest.
7. Have someone keep all the records of the reunion such as budget, payments, letters of registration, etc., in one place.
Reunion Booklet Tips
When the reunion is over it is fun to have a booklet to look back on. We are giving you a guideline for a really great booklet. It is recommended to turn your paper sideways and therefore have pages back to front and make a smaller booklet.
Cover page …………
(the following is centered)
Negros Oriental High School Class of 1996
10th Year Reunion
(You might add a picture of the school or some clipart, i.e., fifties car or kids dancing for a 50’s class reunion.)
Page 1……….
“The folks who put this reunion together”:
(list the names of your committee members)
“What we did”
(list the schedule of events that you did)
Page 2……..
“IN MEMORIUM”
(you might use this poem then list the classmates who have passed away):
I cannot think of them as dead
who walk with me no more..
Along the path of life I tread
They have but gone before.
Page 3………
“Looking back at 1996”
(here you might list what was in the news that year, the cost of some groceries, what were the top movies, tv shows and singers, etc)
Page 4………..
“Class Trivia”
(This can be the results of information that you got from classmates on your information letter they sent back, i.e.,
_____classmates answered. We have produced _______children. ________have been overseas. __________has been married the longest with ________years. _________still live in our hometown.
(in your invitation letter, if you asked them to tell you what their occupation was or is you can list it like thisJ
Engineers….30
Chemist…..10
Teacher……..20
Etc, etc
Page 5……..
“Those Who Let Us Know What They Are Doing”
(this will come from the information letters you send out. Suggested format isJ
Last name, First, Middle (Maiden Name of Female) – address, phone number, married to______for_____years.___Children______grandchildren. What she does in her spare time. Her email address. Something she remembers fondly from high school. Plus list any other information they sent.
(Recommended put in alphabetically by last name they had in school)
Post Card Alert For Date Of Reunion
First send a post card alerting the class so they can plan on that date and send it out as soon as you have all your names and addresses gathered up.
Example:
The Negros Oriental High School Class of _1996_ will be holding its ______ year reunion on
______________, in ___________________
Please keep this date open because we’d love to see you!
We'd like to hear from you to be sure we have the correct
address for future mailings. You can either send a post card to John Doe, 2006 Broadway, Billsville, OK
or email us at: ________________.
October 1, 2009 4:16 AM
Information Letter and Reservation Form
NOHS Class of 1996(logo if you have one) is having a ________year class reunion and you are invited to attend. Our agenda for the reunion is as follows:
(list events, places, time and cost if any)
We would like to find out what you have been up to since the last time we saw you so we can share the information with your classmates.
Your full name:________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Your marital status___________Spouse (if one) name:________________________________________________________________
No,. of children______________grandchildren____________________pets you consider kids_________________________
Still working?? ____________. Doing what?_______________________________________________________________
___________
Retired after how many years??__________________of doing what??__________________________________________
Has something exciting happened to you since the last reunion? (i.e., new knees, got married again, they are still letting you drive, etc.)__________________________________________________________________________
What do you do in your spare time?________________________________________________________________________________
If you have an email address please list it. (we promise not to sell it)__________________________________
RESERVATION FORM
Cost per person for all events_________
Cost per couple for all events__________
(you will want a cost for the last big event for people who cannot attend the other days or cheaper events)
Cost per person for only final evening event_________
Cost per couple for only final evening event__________
Reservation Form (Due NLT________________________)
Name:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
( ) I or ( ) we (status of other person so no one will ask if you brought your child with you) will attend the reunion and I am enclosing the amount of PhP______________________
( ) I cannot attend but will send a letter and photo to post so you will know I am still alive and kicking
Make checks/money orders payable to “Class of _1996” and mail to Class of ________,
P O Box ___________ If you have questions email__________ or call_____________ .
October 1, 2009 4:20 AM
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