Organizers' Workspace for Our 50th Reunion

This page is for reunion organizers. You have to know its URL, http://fa1955.jot.com/OrganizersPage , in order to find it because it is not a link on any other page; it is semi-hidden in this way so as not to confuse non-organizers.

Organizers (all will have editing priviliges for this website)

Emilie Buck -- makes calls and offers advice; additional role(s) at her discretion

George Cadwell -- co-MC Friday lunch; advice; additional role(s) at his discretion

Alex Edwards-Bourdrez (FA's Assistant Development Director, Alumni Relations) -- main FA coordinator, mass mailings (postal or email), logo ware, coordinate with FA archivist Mary Ann Reardon, FA webmaster Lauren Banks, FA Director of Development Carl Pozzi, and others at FA

Peg Foster -- telephoner in chief (acquire email and other contact info, inform people about reunion and send them to http://fa1955.jot.com); additional role(s) at her discretion

John Galbraith -- co-MC Friday lunch; advice; additional role(s) at his discretion

Art Geoffrion -- admin for this website; contact information ferret

Joan Konvalinka -- overall reunion coordinator, advice, close-in support, house is venue for Friday night

Mary Ann Reardon (FA's archivist) -- 1950s photos and other memorabilia, school history, scanning (hoping she can supervise student scanner paid with our funding)

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Outline of work to be done.

Legend for This Workspace:

• red is used sparingly for important content.
• [name] means that "name" is responsible for this item
• [TBD] means "to be discussed or decided or done, need someone to accept responsibility"

Event Planning

Friday Lunch (perhaps noon-2:30, our class alone)

• Power Point presentation: FA's evolution during last 50 years [Alex]
• Logo ware handouts [TBD] -- did not materialize
• 1950s photo montage [Mary Ann]
  
• 1950s music; Art purchased some suitable CD's possibly to rip [TBD] -- played, but sound system inadequate
• Personal exhibits by classmates (paintings, drawings, sculptures, writings, music, other things made) [TBD] -- did not materialize
• Master of Ceremonies program [George and John with input from all]
• Moment of silence for 5 deceased class members -- did not do this
• Poetry [George; other(s)?] -- George read 2 poems
• Recognition for Doris (SECRET from her) [Joan] -- got bulbs, but Doris did not come
• Classmates share stories from FA days, ... [need to solicit] -- did not materialize
• Orchestrate table-hopping for desert (there is a suggested protocol for this) -- did not do this

Friday Afternoon (between lunch and reception)

• Private class tour [Alex will arrange] -- Alex gave it
  
• Private class visit to archivist presentation of 1950s materials [Alex, Mary Ann] -- came off well

Friday Alumni Reception (6-8pm)

• Attendance list by class to be posted, decade-coded name tags [Alex] -- did not happen
• Gather at Joan's house after 7pm or so for pizza (or whatever) and conversation [Joan] -- went to Owen's

Saturday Fall Fair (10am-4pm)

• Set rendezvous times to gather at the Alumni Tent. [TBD] -- did not do this
• Organize another tour, possibly in conjunction with other 1950s classes? [TBD, Alex] -- relied on std tours

Saturday Dinner Dance

• Have our own tables, but do we want special wine? [TBD; Herb?] -- had our tables, standard wines

Sunday

• All-alumni reception after worship [Alex] -- did not happer, school bake sale instead (worship sparsely attended by non-55ers)
• Farewell brunch on campus (Caretaker's House or Frost Hall Conference Room) [TBD, Alex] -- Joan put this on

Invitees from Other Classes

• Whom to invite, and to which of our events? [TBD]

Classmate Contact Information URGENT!

• Acquire accurate current info, especially email [Art, Peg, John, Emilie, others?] -- done mainly by me
• Enter data into Art's Excel spreadsheet [Art].
  This spreadsheet is attached to this page. To see what Art has changed since the version given to him by FA at the outset, you may have to select Tools/Track Changes/Highlight Changes, make sure that the "Track changes while editing" and "Highlight changes on screen" boxes are checked, and also check the "When" box with "All" as its content. Not the very latest (Classmates has latest contact info).
• Enter spreadsheet data into FA's alumni database [Alex's office]
• Lost classmates (more clues needed!)
• Richard Adler
• Sally Asher
• Peter Gould
• John Wycoff

Notifications and Encouragement to Attend URGENT!

• Telephone calls [Peg, Emilie, John, other organizers] -- not systematic
• Emails [Alex can do mass emails, others should do personal ones] -- not systematic

Logo Ware (gifts to be sent in advance of reunion; others may be distributed at reunion) [TBD, Alex] -- nothing other than Joan's T-shirts

ClassGift (please click here for more information)

• What to get? [TBD, Alex]
  
• How to fund? [TBD]

Develop Content for Reunion Website: please see the outline of this site below, and suggest how we can gather the various kinds of content

• Photo acquisition and scanning [everyone, Mary Ann Reardon]
• Other memorabilia acquisition and scanning [everyone, Mary Ann Reardon]
• Personal information acquisition [Peg, Art and others]
• Honoring our teachers: get photos, acquire stories and homages [TBD]
• School history [Alex, Mary Ann Reardon and others]
• Early 50's nostalgia [Art and others]

[Art will tend to the posting, but others are more than welcome to help.]