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.
April 29th, 2009
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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.
April 8th, 2009
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