Hi Bill,
It is time to get our act together on our 60th Class Reunion. Betty Jean McSloy, John Badgley and I have been kicking some ideas around and would really like you to join us as our Man in Missoula...altho that's not strictly true because we also have Dite working with us.
What we really need first of all is your local influence on getting a reservation for a block of rooms at a hotel, possibly Holiday Inn where you had our reception last time, with a reduced price, where we would also have our cocktail party and dinner. Maybe even the final day breakfast? I think most agreed that the 50th dinner was a fiasco and certainly not worth repeating. Since we will be having at least two functions at this place we hoped you could negotiate a great reduction on a block of rooms.
What ideas do you have for a name for this shindig? Any brainsorms on other things to do? We greatly appreciate all the work you, Rita and others have done in the past; with e-mail now commonplace we hope to relieve some of that burden by jazzing up our Class interest well in advance. Unless you object, we will run some trial balloons on our Class Blog which we expect to have up and running very soon, which the 70 or so of us who are linked by the internet can discuss.
One of the '48ers on the Sound,
Patricia VanVorous
patvv@earthlink.net
EarthLink Revolves Around You.
Dear Pat, thanks for the letter. I really don't think Holiday Inn or Doubletree are very interested in giving any deals and they charge an arm and a leg for the meeting rooms and banquets. I am not sure we can afford to do it the way you outlined but Nooney is the expert on that. I think any problem we had at the Elks can be solved with telling them how we would like the seating arranged. We left it up to them but they would do it any way we want. Holiday Inn would put us eight to a round table I think -- at least they did the last banquet I attended there.
But you are not alone in objecting to the Elks as a venue. I think it's fine but I certainly have heard the bad reveiws. We in Missoula would welcome any assistance in the planning, promotion and staging of the event. Some of our classmates are on a tight budget and we don't want to price ourselves so high some will not come for that reason. God only knows we have a hard enough time getting some of them to attend. I know that Nooney has worked his butt off in prior years and his secretary has spent hours on the details. Hopefully his health will remain good and his energy will remain at a high level --- the Good Lord willing.
Bill Ottem always has a good idea for the reunions. He coined the last one "Stay Alive for 55" AFN, Dite
It is time to get our act together on our 60th Class Reunion. Betty Jean McSloy, John Badgley and I have been kicking some ideas around and would really like you to join us as our Man in Missoula...altho that's not strictly true because we also have Dite working with us.
What we really need first of all is your local influence on getting a reservation for a block of rooms at a hotel, possibly Holiday Inn where you had our reception last time, with a reduced price, where we would also have our cocktail party and dinner. Maybe even the final day breakfast? I think most agreed that the 50th dinner was a fiasco and certainly not worth repeating. Since we will be having at least two functions at this place we hoped you could negotiate a great reduction on a block of rooms.
What ideas do you have for a name for this shindig? Any brainsorms on other things to do? We greatly appreciate all the work you, Rita and others have done in the past; with e-mail now commonplace we hope to relieve some of that burden by jazzing up our Class interest well in advance. Unless you object, we will run some trial balloons on our Class Blog which we expect to have up and running very soon, which the 70 or so of us who are linked by the internet can discuss.
One of the '48ers on the Sound,
Patricia VanVorous
patvv@earthlink.net
EarthLink Revolves Around You.
Dear Pat, thanks for the letter. I really don't think Holiday Inn or Doubletree are very interested in giving any deals and they charge an arm and a leg for the meeting rooms and banquets. I am not sure we can afford to do it the way you outlined but Nooney is the expert on that. I think any problem we had at the Elks can be solved with telling them how we would like the seating arranged. We left it up to them but they would do it any way we want. Holiday Inn would put us eight to a round table I think -- at least they did the last banquet I attended there.
But you are not alone in objecting to the Elks as a venue. I think it's fine but I certainly have heard the bad reveiws. We in Missoula would welcome any assistance in the planning, promotion and staging of the event. Some of our classmates are on a tight budget and we don't want to price ourselves so high some will not come for that reason. God only knows we have a hard enough time getting some of them to attend. I know that Nooney has worked his butt off in prior years and his secretary has spent hours on the details. Hopefully his health will remain good and his energy will remain at a high level --- the Good Lord willing.
Bill Ottem always has a good idea for the reunions. He coined the last one "Stay Alive for 55" AFN, Dite
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