A Study in Contrasts

As some of you may know, I've been working, with Linda's tenacious help, to create a directory for my own Wayne Valley High School class without the help of the reunion committee. Since this personal project of mine has put me at odds with the committee, who are chiefly concerned with a select group to attend and if others do attend, that's okay too; It just further emphasizes the contrast with what we have tried to do for the Reitz '67 events.

We have set policy that class funds will not be used to pay for alcohol. We don't have anything against it in principle; we just don't want non drinkers to subsidize those who do indulge.  We have tried, through various fund raisers completed and planned in the near future, to bolster the class coffers to keep event charges as low as possible in an attempt to allow as many people as possible to attend without having to eat cat food. We're hoping to be looking at $25 a head because of the bigger place and table service versus the DIY approach at the Spring Get Together. In contrast, Wayne reunions are now up to $75 a head to pay for booze and it's not even for a sit down meal. Anyone for a pasta bar?

It really does look like there will be a home football game (albeit Harrison, to whom we will probably deliver the usual annual drubbing) with school tour prior to the game (this has to be planned with Beth Hagan, the Reitz activities director) on Friday, Sept 7, 2012. Larry Broerman is working on the annual Reitz Men's Golf Outing for Saturday morning, Sept. 8. And then of course, the big event on Saturday evening. When we get a little closer, and start asking for attendance commitments and such, Ralph "Ed" Branch will probably be wanting to revisit the local hotel discount situation too although his research to date indicates that we're already at rock bottom in the market anyway.....

Now Delores Overbey Howard mentioned something about matching T-Shirts for the football game. That would be cool but would require some organization. Any volunteers? Let's keep this in mind as an option. We can make a few calls to find out what kind of lead times we are talking about so we know when we have to pull the trigger to make this work. I have to admit, even before the 44th, I did have a vision of 200 or more Reitz 67 folks sitting in a big block in matching attire in the Bowl getting announced at halftime. Way cool! In contrast, the Wayne reunion committee is talking about a 2 mile walk around Packanack lake as an additional activity.

As some of you may have noticed, Linda is at the start of making inquiries about contact information changes in preparation for the big contact blast when we get all the events lined out. In contrast, the Wayne committee has sent invitations to people who are deceased.

Aren't you glad you went to Reitz?