| 04/22/08 11:20 AM |
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Michael Middleton
Planning Update:
Well, as most of you know, a few of us got together last week to try to put together some plans in order to make our reunion happen. We have received a lot of helpful input via this message board, which has been great, but also has made planning the reunion difficult because of the number of differing opinions. So our goal was to try and plan a weekend that would hopefully, in some way, meet the wants of everyone in our class. Here was the TENTATIVE itinerary we came up with:
Friday Night: This would be an optional night with many choices. The idea of everyone getting together at one bar (for space purposes and for bar preference reasons) seemed unrealistic. So the thought was, we could use this website for people to communicate where they would like to meet up. For people who were interested in going to a brewers game or something else, they could choose to do that on Friday as well. In leaving Friday open, it will give everyone their own choice of who or where they want to hang out. And for those not interested in doing anything on Friday night, for whatever reason, they won't feel like they have to take part. (More to follow as far as how to organize this through the website).
Saturday Afternoon: Picnic at TBD. The plan for this was to provide a casual, but organized event in which people could bring along their entire family. We would want to keep this as cheap as possible, so we will most likely reserve a pavilion at any of the various parks located in Kenosha and do a simple cookout with Burgers, Brats, Hot Dogs, and Chips. Everyone can bring their own drinks (to help keep cost down) and Marcus has already volunteered to be the cook. We are hoping to find a park with a playground, baseball diamond, and volleyball court, ect. So pick up games of various kinds could happen as well. Like all the events, this is optional, so for those that are absolutely opposed to being around kids at a reunion, they wouldn't have to come. If you don't want to bring your kids in order to get a break, bringing them is of course optional as well. There will be plenty of things to do that don't involve kids at the picnic, so we hope that having families at the event wouldn't prevent anyone from coming. (The survey we did prior to our planning meeting revealed that 80% were interested in involving kids in one of the events).
Saturday Evening: The plan was for this to be the "official" reunion get together. We would want this event to be catered and more formal in nature. We are also trying to keep cost down as much as possible for this as well, but realistically it will be at least $20 per person. One thought was that we could start it around 7ish so we could have orderves, instead of a full sit down meal. Then people wouldn't feel like they were locked down at a specific table for the entire night. Any "post-reunion" plans would be determined individually.
We figured most out of town classmates would be returning home on Sunday, and anyone else might need to recover from the previous days. So there were no plans officially made for Sunday.
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