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Terrence Doby
12/09/2008: (Sorry, this one is long)
It's Time.
We need accuarate numbers of those intending to attend the reunion and their guests. Those of you who have not yet completed the "Reunion Registration Form " located under the "20 Year Reunion" link on the navigation bar to the left of this page but intend to attend the reunion, please do so at your absolute earliest opportunity. If you have filled out the form but did not enter a number of persons attending, please update your form to reflect the number of persons that will be attending the actual renuion with you. We need these numbers because we have been estimating the size of the space we'll need to rent. Having these numbers gives a better idea based on actual accounts from you of who'll be attending instead of our estimates.
There's a real possibility that everything can be held in Evanston as many of you have indicated you'd like. But, there are real space considerations that may move us out of Evanston for the Saturday night reunion itself. The Grand Ballroom at the Hotel Orrington downtown Evanston will hold about 270 people with a dance floor. Currently, we have 154 people indicating that they intend to attend the reunion. If each one of them brings a guest, we're at 308 and it doesn't appear as though we've reached half of the class yet. If our numbers continue to grow, and I hope they do, every room in Evanston and most every room in Skokie will be out of contention, so we'll have to move further out.
I had two dates on-hold with the Hotel Orrington (http://www.hotelorrington.com) downtown Evanston, August 15 and August 22, 2009. August 22nd is the date I preferred, but I released it because they had a bride standing by ready to make a deposit on the room for the date. Therefore, in order for us not to lose the dates on anymore desirable spaces, I'll need to make a deposit on the space. So, for those of you so far who have indicated that you are coming to the reunion, please send a non-refundable $50 deposit per attendee via personal check, cashiers check or money order made payable to ETHS Class of 1989 Reunion to Terrence Doby, Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave, H102, Evanston, IL 60204. These early deposits are necessary to acquire the space we need to hold our reunion.
If you have any questions, please use the "Contact Us" link on this site to submit them.
Thanks.
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