| 04/09/09 02:52 PM |
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Jesse Aspuria
Great points everyone!! First off, thank you to the following: Tony, Marques, Saweth, Jessica, Shannon, Sarah, Saweth, Alicia, Jake, Tim, Kevin and Angela for using the message forum...encourage everyone esle to keep doing the same.
Quick update, we certainly REALLY are trying to make this work for everyone. We are waiting for a few more responses regarding the two dates and will announce shortly. I certainly agree and have been pushing for a summer date. I need my sun.
BUT, here is the reality...as everyone on this forum thus far have reasons to push for the August date, there have been an overwhelmingly majority thus far for the October date...surely same reasons why they can't go in August such as...having a baby, on summer vacation w/ fam, out of country/state, in army, wedding...you'd be surprise that its not all because it was a Friday. To really make this work, we have to go with the majority vote. YES, we certainly can plan more PRE-REUNION gatherings and certainly in the Summer as well.
Thus far, we just had MORE people sending messages about picking the October date and not being flexible in August, 23 to be exact. In comparison to 11 people that picked the August date, BUT after inquiring on their flexibility..6 of them can be flexible for the October date. We then had 18 folks that were flexible but no preference. Again, this is a TOUGH decision for anyone or yet alone the committee to figure out, but we have to go with the majority...THUS far its looking from the votes in, we have 41 people that can go to the October 17th date and 5 that defenitely can not go. TIm and Jake, we'll wait for your responses as well.
The Committee has researched EXTENSIVELY on venues/halls that were cheap so that we can make this affordable for everyone, also the main reason why we are organizing it rather than hiring a third party. The location/hall we are looking at now was the best option out of 7-9 researched locations. Unfortunately, those were the dates availalbe to us.
Having an October date may be a blessing in disguise as well since it will give us MORE ample time to find our classmates...we still have 169 people we need to connect. Can you imagine how big our reunion will be if we get a hold of ALL those people!! More time to recruit and plan an amazing reunion.
I do hope this explains just a little bit...just know that WE will be putting numerous events through the summer and prior to the official reunion as your thoughts are great make perfect sense as well...I surely wanna hang with all of you in the summer!
We sincerely apologize for not making this work for everyone, the best we can do is go with majority for the OFFICIAL REUNION date but compromise and have other pre-reunion gatherings to connect everyone.
We are still waiting for a few more inquiries before we send out an official response. Don't hesitate to reach out to us to help answer any questions/concerns.
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