Here's where we're at so far...
So it looks like Summer 2008. 15 Year Reunion of the Class of '93. Nice. Lots of time to plan and lots of time to find our fellow classmates.
So far I'm seeing:
- Mark is going to work on getting contact list rolling.
- Cam will help with that by trying to track down classmates.
- Dan is willing to co-chair a golf event (if we have one).
- Matt and I are doing our best to get the word out and get people on board to help make this thing happen.
- I seem to recall Jamie was going to start up a newsletter or something. Can anyone confirm?
A comment was made about available venues. Is anyone willing to start poking around and seeing how far in advance you need to book things in town...like the Selkirk Golf Course for a golf event and dare I say, maybe the Rec Centre for a family and/or evening event. Maybe that will help us narrow down a date.
I guess the next question to the masses then is what events would you like to see? Suggestions to date include:
- Golf event
- Family Picnic or something for those with kids
- Social evening (as in a Social or an actual dinner?)
Please submit your suggestions and vote for the one thing you definitely want to see happen since I doubt we'll be able to do it all! Also, let us know if you're willing to help and with what.
posted by Selkirk_93 @ 11:18 AM
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Hello Everyone!
Sorry I haven't contributed sooner. I'm fully on board for summer 2008. My vote(s) would be for the aforementioned- family picnic/fun day and social. I think it would be great to compile as many photos (digital & old school)from high school to now and create a slide show we could have playing at the social??? I can be responsible for this.
One more thought(for now)this may have been touched on already...we should consider doing some fundraising between now and summer 2008 so we have a budget to work with. I'm very excited for this event and can't wait to see everyone!!
John Park
"superjock" Class of 93'
I've emailed the school to see if we could get a list of the class from '93. I don't know if they'll do it though. I've got the '93 yearbook and I totally forgot how many of us there were.
It is interesting looking at it though. And a little confusing. Here's the breakdown from the yearbook.
Graduating Students = 361
Graduating Class = 26 (I think these people just didn't get their grad pictures)
Senior Class =349
Total =736
There doesn't seem to be any duplicates in there so that's a pretty big total. Was there really that many people in our year? ... because WOW!
It could take me until 2008 just to type all those names out if we needed to. My basic plan is to throw together a quick website where there will be a form to fill out with your contact information.
The website link can be passed around until we get as many people from that year. From there we'll at least have an idea of who many people are interested. After that we could try looking for and contacting people.
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I like the idea of family picnic and dinner/social day too.
I do not have a yearbook but my guess is that the "Senior Class" was composed of people that were not actually graduating in 93'? I didn't graduate in 93' as I was supposed too (although I am in deep denial of this fact...haha). I had to go back for a couple more credits in 94'.
Matt C.
I phoned the selkirk rec complex to get some information (as Tricia had suggested) and the following is what I found out:
June 2008 is pretty much a no-go based on the current bookings...grad etc...
July and August are pretty much wide open at this point in time. The sooner we book the better but it sounds like we probably have a couple of months.
The maximum capacity of the rec centre hall is 500 people.
There are two types of social events that can be staged at the hall...each with different rates.
The first is the "Social" type evening. The fee for hall rental for a social is $2,400. This includes a $446 refundable damage deposit, bartenders, mix, and security people.
The second is the "sit-down meal type-social"...similar to a wedding. The fee for hall rental in this option is about $1500. This includes a $315 refundable damage deposit, bartenders and mix (no security). Catering would have to be arranged outside of the rental fee.
The fee system seems kind of backwards but the lady I spoke with stated that the social type evening fee is higher due to the for-profit nature of socials and the required security people ($500).
The non refundable booking deposit is $94.50 on the meal-type social and $133.88 on the social.
Johnny Park raised a good point about the financial side of things. Personally, I think we should have a treasurer in charge of the finances. Bascially one person that handles all the money so that there is no conflict. For example, all social ticket fees could go to this person....any cheques written would be by this person. Kelly K. would be ideal for this role if we can bribe him into doing it. Kelly is a CA and I believe he is still in the Selkirk area.
As far as raising intial funds for a hall deposit (and possibly a Selkirk Journal advertisement) maybe we should figure out a rough ticket price for the social evening and the few of us that are really committed to this thing could throw in our ticket money in the next month or two. I would be willing to do it to raise some initial funds.
Anyways...just some more ideas to chew on.
Matt C.
I was thinking about the fundraising stuff too actually. Unfortunately my hands are a bit tied right now but it's game on once I'm back on Canadian soil! We should have a plan so we don't go off in too many directions.
I also think we should find a local charity to donate any extra funds to. Either that or see if the Comp has a scholarship fund we could contribute to. We should decide this right away so that when people buy tix or are asked to give money they know how the funds are used.
Also, what connections do we have? In other words are there any grads from our class who own a catering company or businesses that would be willing to donate goods or money to get this thing rolling? Anything we can do to keep costs down is a bonus.
Most of the funds should be generated from ticket sales but we're a long way off from selling tix at this point.
Anyone know if the Comp has a reunion fund? ha ha!
I was thinking the same thing about the charity thing. On a related note though I personally don't think we should focus on fundraising...unless we have a specific goal of raising money for a charity. I am not really sure if it would be right if a group of thirty-something year-olds did a bunch of fundraising so that we could have cheap social ticket prices. Plus...I don't know about you guys but I think it would be enough work to put this thing on....not sure if I would have enough energy to do a bunch of fundraising. Of course, I do think we should make it a priority to keep the cost down.
With regards to the initial funds needed to book the hall (which I had suggested in my last blog)....I basically meant to raise the $150 as a deposit. I didn't mean to actually set tickets prices. I was suggesting that whoever would chip in for the deposit would get their money back through a
reduced ticket price. I think we have a bit of time before we have to make any decisions though.
Just brainstorming here...my ideas might be crap!! Feel free to let me know.
Matt C.
Hey everyone, sounds like a great idea to me. A "Scoial" event would make sense. We might not even have to get that large of a hall. I think we will need a ballpark head count for people that are interested in attending. That would mean sending out a "sign in" sheet for everyone interested. Just a few thoughts.
Cheers, Shane Matson
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