If there are any military member that you have not been able to locate, please let me know. I have talked to Brad Shoemaker, but if there are any other please let me know and I'll try to loacte them. I have a way.
Jenny...Do you know where we will be holding our reunion? Or if there will be access to a kitchen? I like the pot-luck idea. Another suggestion would be if we had access to a BBQ grill, we could have hamburgers/hot dogs and set up a donation jar to help offset the cost. If we could have the cook-out, people could just bring side dishes/desserts. Someone might keep track of what people are bringing so there would not be too many desserts and not enough other items. I have worked several fund-raisers for the Relay and we always had great success setting up the donation jar at any of our breakfasts.
I will have to agree with Jenny on this one. Planning this event is a big undertaking and trying to organize a pot luck would be a big headache for a lot of people. It would also add money to the rental of the civic center to have to use the kitchen there. Clean-up is also an issue if a caterer isn't involved. Not to mention there are sanitary issues with people bringing their own food. This should be a "special occasion" It happens only every 10 years, so $20.00 per person for a nice meal doesn't seem out of line to me. The committee involved with planning this event is taking on some of the expenses to offset the cost as much as possible. Lets make it a nice night!
I agree with you Susan, I am not able to afford much but I think that the catered meal would be a lot better.. That way someone else is dealing with the food and mess and we can all visit and enjoy the time together..like you said this only happens once every 10 years and not all of us get to talk to many of our classmates on a regular basis, I personaly do not want to have to worry about bringing a dish and then hope there is enough....
Please also keep in mind, that the committee is also planning other events throughout the weekend that will be free of charge. Once we have all the details lined out, it will be posted on this site.
I think that we can do the catering idea a whole lot easier also. I remeber the last reunion adn we cooked a lot of stuff ourselves and it was a lot of work for those involved. I like the idea of a BBQ, it would be easy and fun, maybe Wes Rainwater would let us use his cooker or he might be able to cater it for little cost to all of us. It is just an idea. I will be there no matter what, I can not believe still that it has been 20 years. I do not know who is on the committee or where the meetings are being held, but I live in Neosho and if you need some help please let me know. Tim Newdigger does not live in Neosho anymore he is in Wisconsin adn buried deep in snow this whole winter. I bet he wishes he lives in Neosho still...lol.
i hope you all have fun at the reunion sorry i wont be going due to a tree following on our house may 8 2009 and because we have to cough up 1500 to remove it and fix the damage so please excuse me from the reunion i hope you all have fun and post pics i will miss you all and be thinking of you:)
Don't know how many of you are golfers, but I remember from the last reunion that there are at least a few of you... I do know that there is a golf tournament that morning (7/18) sponsored by the Neosho Booster Club. Not only will this be a fun way for you to reunite w/ some of your buds, but it will also be a good way for you to give back to your Alma Mater! I think it is $50/per-$100/team, which I hear is a good price for a good golf. Plus I guess there are prizes? Hope all of the golfers have a great time!
Hi fellow alums! You may or may not know that there has been a push to change the Neosho Wildcat. This has been a 2 year controversy. It is finally coming to a close. They have put an article in the paper asking people to vote. They already took votes from the students and teachers. I'm attaching the article. I hope you will call in. Even though some of you have moved from the district, as alumni, I think you should still have a say.
Are you just wanting an outline of events for the weekend? Friday night there will be a Meet and Greet at the NHS cafeteria from 5:30 to 7:30. Saturday there will be a family picnic at Morse Park (north I believe)from 11:00 to 2:00. Saturday night is the dinner and dance at the Civic Center from 7 p.m. to midnight. I don't have a list of those attending but Jenny does. Several of them have marked attending on their profiles. I know at this time we have about 80 classmates and about 150 people total. Hope this helps....
Below is the list of those that are confirmed for the Saturday Night event. I have a couple classmates, Tracie Diggs and Gina VanDorn that are planning on coming to the picnic Sat afternoon. If you are planning on coming and aren't on this list, you need to let me know asap! We are at 96 classmates and 178 people!!
ANDERSON MIKE ARNCE, JR. DONALD W. (BILLY) BACH-MORRIS HEATHER BEIER-ROBERTS STEPHANIE BENTZ-WEAR SUSAN BIGGS BO BLAKELEY SHERYL BRUMBACK-STITH LORI BRYAN-DAVIS HOPE CARRELL GABE CARTER-MOORE ANN CLARK-LANEY STEPHANIE CLAYBROOK JOHN COLE DENNIS COPE BRIAN DANG-MCGARRAH THUY DENEFRIO TODD DUCOMMUN SHANE EDENS-BAKER PAM EVANS-PHILLIPS KELLY FINLEY-HALL STEPHANIE FLETCHER CRAIG GIBSON RANDY GLAVIN KANDIS GOINS-PATTERSON TONYA GRIFFITH-SPIVA JENNY GUEST CARSON HARDY SHAWN HARRELL FARON HASBROOK-WILCOX NANCY HIERONYMUS KEN HODKIN-SHORT TINA HOOD-HAWES KANDI HOUCK GREG HUTCHINSON-SMITH DEBBIE JENNINGS-LARSON JILL JORDON RANDY KAHLER-HENDERSON SUZETTE KEELER-FRANCISCO ANGIE KINKADE TOBY KISSEL-MATHIS KORI LANKFORD JAMES LEE-WHITE AMY LUDIKER-TYLER BRENDA LYON-SMITH HEIDI MACY HERSHEL MCGARRAH SCOTT MCILVAINE-HENADY MICHELE MILLER ZACH MITCHELL-ANDERSON HOLLY MOORE MARTIN MOORE STEVEN MOORE BRIAN MOSBY CHRIS MULKEY-BRODIE SHANNON MUNSON AMBER MURROW-HARDY LISHA NANCE-PARRISH TRACI NEVILLE BRIAN NEWELL-PRICE TWILA OSBORN-SAWYERS KELLEY OSBORN-SELVEY KIM OWENS-JUDD BETSY OXFORD JEFF PACE-WRIGHT DEE DEE PATTERSON LARRY PAUL-HILL MISHELLE PAYTON JOSEPH PERCH-ERMAN LORI POGUE-HAWKINS DANA POLLICK-JONES SHERRY POTTER KEVIN POWELL-LANDRON LEE ANN RAMSEY RICHARD RHOADES-DAY CHRISTINE RUDDICK-WARD AMY SCHEMBS ANDREW SCHIBI-GRAHAM KRISTI SCHNEICKART-FAST JULIE SHOEMAKER BRAD SIMS-KRUEGER ELIZABETH SKELTON-OWEN KELLI SMALLWOOD JIM SOUTHERN-ENLOW STACEY SPEARS JEREMY STIPP JASON STOUT HENRY STUSSY TONY THOGMARTIN-HENNING LESLIE TUGGLE-MCBROOM SHEILA TYLER WILL WELLINGTON-ALLEN CARA WILLIAMS VON WILLIS GERALD WILSON-REESER JANA WINDSOR LANCE
Great job to everyone that worked so hard setting the reunion up. What a fabulous job. I think everyone had a great time. I hope we do a 25yr. I really enjoyed seeing everyone.
Thank you very much to all the folks that did the work to put things together. It was really great to see everyone again. Again to everyone that worked on this, GREAT JOB! I hope we do it again in 5 years!
It was so fun visiting with great friends!!! The Civic Center is beautiful. A sincere thanks to all the organizers!! We will definitely plan on being at the 25th reunion! :)
Oh, I didn't even reallize how much that I had missed each of you. It was awesome to see everyone!
I know there were several shutter bugs out there. Please post some pics for our classmates that couldn't attend. I hope to see even more at the next one!
Thanks to the committee for all the hard work planning this. It was great!
It was so great seeing everyone again!! Glad so many could make it as well. Just wanted to say an extra thank you to everyone who stayed and helped with the clean up. It went so quickly with the extra help! The lady from the Civic Center said the place looked great so thank you very much!!!!!!
I had a great time! It was so nice to see everyone again. I hope we do it again in 5 years. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to put this together, you did a great job!
