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Reunion Meeting Minutes - April 18, 2009

Minutes of the Class of 1960 Reunion Meeting, April 18, 2009

Present: Glenda Boonstra Anderson, Nina Stigers Paris, Wallis Jacobus Joyner,
Toni Hillyard, Terri Waters Richardson, Helen Rupple Potucek, Leslie Lieber
Farrell, and James Klein. Sandy Tanner Eller, class of 1958, was present at the
first part of our meeting to tell us about the 50th reunion for their class.

The meeting was called to order at 1:20 p.m. Introductions were made.

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1. Sandy Eller class of 1958 spoke on the Class of 1958's 50th reunion. They
used the Viscount Hotel as their headquarters for the reunion. The reunion was
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The hospitality room at the Viscount opened at 10:
00 Friday morning for early arrivals.

• Their Friday night mixer party was held at Rosario's Restaurant at the

Viscount. Hamburgers, hot dogs, Cokes, and sundaes were served. Alums

were invited to dress in 50s dress.

• They used a hospitality room all 3 days and people brought

memorabilia to put on boards that were placed in the room for that purpose.

• Saturday there was a tour of Catalina.

• The Saturday night dinner was held at Tucson Country Club.

• Sunday morning there was a breakfast in the Atrium at the Viscount.

There was a charge for the breakfast.

• During the morning a memorial was held in the hospitality room for

deceased classmates. The names were read aloud.

• One hundred and twenty people attended the reunion.

• Tote bags were provided with name tags and wine glasses inside.

(Williams and Associates (where the tote bags and name tags were

ordered) 247 S. Wilmot; Mike Williams was the contact person.)

•

photo

booklet

was

made

with

photographs

from

the

reunion

that

mailed out

after the

reunion.

• The address book, printed by Bruce Burkhart, was passed out at the

reunion.

• Total cost of reunion was $225.00 for each alum and their guest, or

$135.00 for one single.

• Saturday night at TCC there was a live disc jockey with records,

although people wanted to have plenty of time to talk.

• Sandy gave us a copy of the registration form that they used to

register

the

alums,

schedule

events

that

was

given

each

alum,

and

sheet

that

was

posted in the

hospitality

room

with the

events.

• It will cost us $25.00 to rent Sandy’s life-size Marilyn Monroe and

James Dean. Sandy also has a Johnnie’s banner we could use.

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2. Venue for Saturday night dinner

A committee was selected to visit possible venues: Nina, Glenda, Toni and

Wallis.

was

agreed

that

the

best

case

scenario,

possible,

was

have

events

one place.

3. Music/entertainment for dinner event

Music

will

depend

location

dinner.

Decision

for

music

will

dec

at the

September

meeting

4. Day 2 event

Day 2 events for early Saturday morning or afternoon. It was decided that

whoever suggested an activity for this time period would be asked to be

the contact person for that activity and they would organize it. We would

advertise it on the Web site and people could sign up on the site.

Poker: Joanne Russo Lovett

Tour of CHS/downtown walking tour: James Klein

Tour of Historical Society: Emily Morrison

Murder Mystery at CHS: Gail Vida Irvin

5. Venue for lunch on day 3

The lunch for day 3 will be held at Nina Paris’ house at 1:00. Tucson alums

will provide food and drinks.

6. Favors

We liked the idea of giving each alum a tote bag. Helen Rupple will go to

Williams & Associates to get a price for them and took to look at other

favors that we might possibly purchase. We decided that we didn’t want

the “standard” favors such as a wine glass, etc.

7. Centerpieces for the tables at the Saturday dinner

Decision: Nina will be in charge of simple centerpieces.

8. Readable name tags.

Terri Waters will report on tags at the September meeting.

9. Underwriters

Try to secure $5,000.00; at the September 2009 meeting this group will put

together a list of names of possible underwriters for Amanda to contact.

Leslie will contact Amanda regarding how she suggests we go about this.

10. Bio Boards

Nothing to report at this time.

11. Searching for classmates

Terri will contact Ed Dooley asap to get started on this project.

12. Reunion update book which will include photographs of all reunion events
and be mailed out after the reunion

Mary Lynn Weaver and Lynn Fuller are working on this. Wallis will contact

them to see how it’s progressing.

13. Greeters/those who register classmates at various events

Reunion planning members will register alums and will be greeters at each

event.

14. Report from Dave Berg re: tracking down former CHS teachers who will be
invited to the dinner; possible lettermen’s breakfast for day 2

Tabled.

15. Financial report

We currently have $2,133.96

‏

in the account.

16. The CHS Web site.

With regard to the Web site that Catalina High School monitors, Leslie will

call Amanda and ask her to contact Catalina and ask them to add a link to

their site that would refer class of 60 alums to our Web site.

The next meeting will be held on at 1:00 p.m., September 12, 2009 at the home of
Terri Waters, 762 North Hayden Drive, phone 298-5232..