Building Brat Friendships
RE: Building Best Brat Friendships Forever & Bringing Brats Together in 2025
Brat friends,
Every year (except for COVID years 2020 and 2021) since 1987, OVERSEAS BRATS (OSB) has hosted an annual “gathering” for ANY and ALL Brats, regardless of when or where they were Brats.
The “gathering” is an annual national convention of those with our unique and special heritage.
Each year OSB works hard to create an event that is interesting/meaningful/FUN.
We do this by:
-Empowering Brats to make it happen.
-Introducing WONDERFUL Brats to WONDERFUL Brats and starting friendships that are better than the Social Media kind!
-Implementing a ‘sponsorship’ program we call Ambassadors – which specifically looks after all who are NEW to this event in seeing to it they feel they are involved!
-Spending time educating the Brat community about the function.
-Developing some great mini-course session topics.
-Supporting get-togethers/mini-reunions/
-Planning social activities each evening of the event.
-Creating a ‘teen club’ type hospitality experience for all.
-Not having guest speakers, because each Brat is their own best speaker.
-Definitely no ‘head tables’ at our major dining events.
Did you know:
*A Brat songwriter named Dr. Rick Connell was so impressed by the gathering, he wrote a song about it! Visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
*One of our special programs during one of our recent gatherings was our ‘Missing Man’ program hosted by three Brats who wore their military MESS DRESS uniforms! (It was funny to see them dance in their uniforms later!) One of our board members, Debbie Salina Cooper recorded this 10 minute program. See it at:
https://www.facebook.com/
*We discovered actress Patricia Neal in a hotel gift shop some years ago. She came out to spend more than an hour with us Brats.
*At one of our morning seminars years ago, Dallas Cowboy football players Emmit Smith and Michael Irwin accidentally walked into our meeting room. After listening to us for a few minutes, they graciously excused themselves.
How special are OVERSEAS BRATS events?
Consider that since 1987 OVERSEAS BRATS has hosted: 8 all-school reunion events (Homecomings), 35 annual “gatherings,” and 179 regional events with 11,889 Brats & Educators attending. These events resulted in countless number of Best Brat Friendships that resulted from these events, including 15 marriages that I’m aware of.
Our next “gathering,” in St. Charles, MO, located in the St. Louis metro area, October 2-5, 2025.