Terry Parker Class of 79 Reunion Site

Count of registrations and RSVP’s (7/20/09)

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:00:20 +0000

There are 225 paid registrants to the reunion. To see who’s registered, click on this page, which you can also find on the left sidebar of “The Reunion” page. To see who’s RSVP’d, click on this page.

RSVP page has been suspended

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:53:30 +0000

WIth only 8 days, 14 hours and a few minutes left before registration closes, the Reunion Planning Committee has suspended the RSVP process to encourage alumi to register and to eliminate the possibility of confusion.

If you are planning to attend the reunion, please register by clicking on this page. Payment is required for registration.

Hotel Reservation Deadline Extended to July 1!

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:29:50 +0000

We’ve spoken to the Radisson Hotel and gotten agreement to extend the reservation deadline until July 1 for the whole class, as long as we have 15 rooms reserved by June 15. We are currently at 12 rooms.

Remember, a reservation costs you nothing and can be cancelled up until 4:00 PM the day of arrival without penalty (confirm this upon making your reservation). Additionally, if we reserve all 20 rooms we’ve blocked out, we will have free shuttle service to and from the reunion on Saturday evening.

To make your reservation and get the special class rate of $79, please call (904)281-9700 and let the receptionist know that you are reserving under the Terry Parker Class of ‘79 block of rooms.

Please send your photos!

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:21:24 +0000

The reunion planning committee would like to publish your best photos in the program, in the slide show we’ll be presenting throughout the reunion and on this website.

Please email us your tasteful, vintage-1979-era photographs to photos@tp79reunion09.com by June 15, to include them in our publications. C’mon people! Show us how you remember your high school years.

Reunion Updates on Twitter available

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:17:26 +0000

Want to receive updates that much more quickly on …

Who’s registered lately?
What registration deadlines are upon us?
What new events are announced?
Who’s shown up to and what’s happening at the party?
Where the “After Party” is?

Get yourself a Twitter account, enable your mobile phone to receive “Tweets” and follow “ReunionUpdates”….you’ll always be in the know.

Questions or concerns? Contact Ralph at rgomez@tp79reunion09.com

How to reconnect with Terry Parker Alumni

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:30:30 +0000

To make it easier for our class’ alumni to reconnect with each other, we have created an email address that automatically forwards to your actual email address, and that is easy for everyone to guess. Of course, we can’t forward emails to you if we don’t know your actual email address.

To write an alumnus, all you need to do is know the first initial of their high school name (nickname if that’s what they used) as well as their last or maiden name. The format of the address is:

first initial+last/maiden name @ tp79reunion09.com. For example, Ralph’s is rgomez@tp79reunion09.com and Nancy’s is ngroves@tp79reunion09.com.

Test your email address out by sending a message to your new account and seeing if it comes right back to you. If it doesn’t, it could be that you’ve supplied us a different email address or that it’s not working. Let Ralph know.

If you find that you’re getting too much legitimate or spam email, please let Ralph know and he’ll discuss with you your options (remove the account, forward the messages to a different account, put a spam filter on it, or something else),

Fletcher Class of ‘79 – Lost Souls

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:35:59 +0000

The Parker Reunion Committee is coordinating with the committees of other area high schools to help find some of the alumni with whom we’ve lost all contact. To start, we’re working with the Fletcher Reunion Committee (you know, the high school we beat during homecoming our senior year).

Do you know a 1979 graduate of Fletcher? They’re still trying to locate lost classmates for their July 17th reunion. Click here to check out Fletcher’s ‘Lost Souls List’ and share an email address with their reunion committee.

The Band is announced: Last To Leave

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:03:49 +0000

We promised you a band party, but didn’t just go out and get a typical wedding band, we contracted “Last To Leave” a local band that’s been playing Jacksonville clubs and venues for over 15 years. Billed as one of the top dance bands in the South, Last To Leave will make sure that even the shyest of all classmates gets their booty shaking on the dance floor.

To see a sample of their music, click play on the following…

Deadline for registering

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:44:58 +0000

The reunion committee wants to remind alumni that there will be no registration the day of the event. The reasons are many:

1) Registration at the door would require us to either accept cash, checks or have a credit card processing terminal available. We really don’t want to be accounting for cash while we’re trying to have fun (it tends to disappear easily), we can’t verify easily that checks wont bounce until after the event, and we don’t own or want to pay for a credit card terminal.

2) Last minute registrants almost killed the 20 year reunion. Because of the large influx of walk up registrants, the kitchen had to scramble to fix additional plates of food and tables had to be brought in minutes before the reunion was to start. The 20 year reunion committee was really stressing to accomodate the procrastination of a large number of people; the 30 year reunion committee is not that kind.

3) Setting up a no-food late-registrant package, as has been suggested, wont be simple. We’re offering an hors d’oeuvres buffet, and don’t really want to spend our reunion time policing who walks up to get a piece of cheese or a shrimp cocktail.

4) **Without advance registrations we can’t know whether we’re financially whole or not! ** Since there are no deep pockets to pay for overspending, we are working very hard to ensure that we can pay our vendors’ invoices. We have made a leap-of-faith that people will show up and but are waiting to see what commitment there is from alumni before we sign contracts and pay deposits. Without advance funds, we may lose vendors.

The 30 year reunion committee opted to not use a Reunion Planning company because we felt that for the same money, we could provide the class a lot more value. We have taken the financial risk so that you could have a better party. Please do your part by registering as soon as possible.

The last day for regular registration (at $85 per person) is June 30. The last day for late registration (at $95 per person) is July 15 (two weeks before the reunion). We have communicated this on the website, emails and in a mailer we sent to everyone whose addresses we could find. Since we feel we’ve done our best to warm everyone, we will turn unregistered classmates away at the door. No exceptions.

Terry Parker ‘79 “Lost Souls”

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:47 +0000

At this point, we have made email contact with 212 Class of ‘79 alumni and posted by U.S. mail a notice to the rest of the class. However, the notices for the following 19 people were returned, which classifies them as our “Lost Souls”.

Please pass on any information you may have about their whereabouts so that we can inform them of the reunion:

Jerry Douglas Ancion
Douglas Robert Yoel
Randall Brannen Nelson
Linda Ann Dotson
David Clifton Black
Hubert Leroy Hodges
Ulf Nilsson
Ralph Matthew Bartley
Sharon Elizabeth Barksdale Stewart
Venetia Renee Benny
Daniel Wells Benson
Barbara Louise Christian Daniels
William Paul Clark
Tammy Denise Drayton
Keli Marie Ponder
Rennee Walls Scharning
Vera Almeter Williams
Derrick Lamar Wilson