Tuesday, November 4, 2008
November Meeting Cancelled
We have cancelled the Nov meeting due to it falling on Election Day, and the fact the Manatee Ave bridge is closed. The next meeting will be Dec 2 at 6:00pm. We are going to try to do it at the Sandbar, as long as it is not too cold. Alisa will send an email as we get closer.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
September Meeting Re-cap
Wow! What a great meeting last night, thank you all! We got a lot accomplished and had a lot of fun, too. Here's a quick overview of what was discussed and who is doing what.
Finding Classmates
Our goal is to be as close to "done" as possible with finding classmates by the end of this year. EVERYONE NEEDS TO HELP WITH THIS! Elsa has taken about 70 names and addresses from Christa to follow up with, Gena is going to look on Facebook and see if she can find additional classmates. We'd like Gary to search MySpace (Gary that's what you get when you don't show up for a meeting!) and Apryl and Alisa will continue to work Classmates.com.
Corresponding with Classmates
I passed around the September newsletter for everyone to review. This will go out monthly at the beginning of the month.
Sponsorships
I passed out color copies of the sponsorship information pages. I will also be sending these to all committee members as a PDF today along with the sponsorship letter that can be personalized from the committee members to potential sponsors. Please help if you can! Also, remember when selling sponsorships to focus on the $$$ we are raising for a scholarship for a worthy 2009 SEHS grad!
Events
We went through the schedule of events for the weekend. Here is the overview of what we're going to do:
Thursday night 6/11 6:30 p.m. Committee "Last Minute Prep Party" at the Bennetts
Friday night 6/12 6:30 p.m. Tropical Welcome Reception at The Sandbar Pavilion
Saturday 6/13 11 a.m. Tour of Southeast High School (Mike setting up)
Saturday 6/13 TBD Golf Tournament
Saturday Night 6/13 7 p.m. Gala Dinner Cocktail Hour/Dinner at 8 p.m. at Polo Grill & Bar
Sunday 6/14 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Farewell Family Beach Party (LOCATION TBD)
Budget
Everyone received a copy of the budget and it was reviewed. It was discussed that sponsorship money raised would help us purchase food & beverages for the family beach party and add to our food & beverages for Friday night as well.
Memory Book
Christa showed everyone Kelli's beautiful design for the cover of the Memory Book. It was decided that the book will have the ads from our sponsors, a listing of classmates and also should have some information about the scholarship recipient, possibly then vs. now pricing, etc.
Also, I mentioned that I've written a web site and has a friend that will put it up for us (she is doing trade-out for that)... I need to get it going though!!!!
We had a lot of excitment and momentum, so let's keep that going!
Next meeting will be Tuesday, October 7th at Mike Mullen's house, 258 Petrel Trail, Bradenton, FL 34212. I will send you all reminders the week before hand! Thanks again and please comment if I forget anything important here!!!!!!
Finding Classmates
Our goal is to be as close to "done" as possible with finding classmates by the end of this year. EVERYONE NEEDS TO HELP WITH THIS! Elsa has taken about 70 names and addresses from Christa to follow up with, Gena is going to look on Facebook and see if she can find additional classmates. We'd like Gary to search MySpace (Gary that's what you get when you don't show up for a meeting!) and Apryl and Alisa will continue to work Classmates.com.
Corresponding with Classmates
I passed around the September newsletter for everyone to review. This will go out monthly at the beginning of the month.
Sponsorships
I passed out color copies of the sponsorship information pages. I will also be sending these to all committee members as a PDF today along with the sponsorship letter that can be personalized from the committee members to potential sponsors. Please help if you can!
Events
We went through the schedule of events for the weekend. Here is the overview of what we're going to do:
Thursday night 6/11 6:30 p.m. Committee "Last Minute Prep Party" at the Bennetts
Friday night 6/12 6:30 p.m. Tropical Welcome Reception at The Sandbar Pavilion
Saturday 6/13 11 a.m. Tour of Southeast High School (Mike setting up)
Saturday 6/13 TBD Golf Tournament
Saturday Night 6/13 7 p.m. Gala Dinner Cocktail Hour/Dinner at 8 p.m. at Polo Grill & Bar
Sunday 6/14 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Farewell Family Beach Party (LOCATION TBD)
Budget
Everyone received a copy of the budget and it was reviewed. It was discussed that sponsorship money raised would help us purchase food & beverages for the family beach party and add to our food & beverages for Friday night as well.
Memory Book
Christa showed everyone Kelli's beautiful design for the cover of the Memory Book. It was decided that the book will have the ads from our sponsors, a listing of classmates and also should have some information about the scholarship recipient, possibly then vs. now pricing, etc.
Also, I mentioned that I've written a web site and has a friend that will put it up for us (she is doing trade-out for that)... I need to get it going though!!!!
We had a lot of excitment and momentum, so let's keep that going!
Next meeting will be Tuesday, October 7th at Mike Mullen's house, 258 Petrel Trail, Bradenton, FL 34212. I will send you all reminders the week before hand! Thanks again and please comment if I forget anything important here!!!!!!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Cost of 10 Year Reunion???
Does anyone remember what the weekend fee was for that one??? We have gotten a little feedback on the price, which we are defending. We know that c/o 88 was $100 pp, and we are having an entirely different even than them, and giving a scholarship.
I seem to remember that it was nearly $100 ten years ago, but I can't recall.
Anyone? Anyone?
I seem to remember that it was nearly $100 ten years ago, but I can't recall.
Anyone? Anyone?
Monday, August 11, 2008
Newsletter Sent Friday
I just heard from Apryl that she DID NOT get the newsletter I sent Friday afternoon via Constant Contact. Can each of you please comment here or let me know if you received it? Only 50 of the people I sent it to opened it so I am concerned that Constant Contact is going directly into the spam file for many people. Please let me know and give me any feedback you have about Constant Contact. I am bummed out that so many may not have gotten through. Thanks for your help.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Sponsorship letter
Hi all! Alisa, thank you for the email I should have the sponsorship letter and the sponsorship information proofed by Monday. I am at at seminar until Saturday afternoon. Hope all is well! I received the newsletter and it looks awesome...especially the pic of you and Christa...too funny!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Full Steam Ahead & Request for $$$$
Hi everyone! Yesterday Christa and I met with the Polo Grill catering staff to nail down our Saturday night function... it is going to be a truly remarkable event -- location is beautiful, food is delicious and the company will be great... we we have the final numbers from them in the next couple of days and then we plan to meet with the Sandbar to do the same sort of thing.
A ton of other things are in the works behind the scenes, I've updated our e-newsletter using www.constantcontact.com and will send it out shortly for all of you to see, this allows us to see what % of people on our list opened the newsletter, etc. Also, the web site should be started to be developed by my web guy next week, the sponsorship stuff is just about ready to go out to all of you to help sell sponsorships (Elsa is helping with this, Thanks, Elsa!) and we continue to get new names and contact information for our database almost daily. Oh, and we've gotta do the budget here soon, too.
This leads me to the most important point -- we need your $$$! We have to send our first check to Polo Grill soon and we've only got $250 in our account. We are asking each committee member to "pre-pay" the estimated $125 pp cost for themselves and a guest ($250 total) or whatever you can afford to send now. Some of you have replied and told me when it's coming and I thank you, but I haven't heard from many of you, so here's my humble request again to please send what you can so that we can start getting our deposit monies in. Please send checks made out to Southeast High Class of 1989 to me c/o Bennett Contracting, Attn: Alisa Bennett, 6029 33rd St E, Bradenton, 34203.
Interesting side note, after looking at www.classmates.com and our database we already have 27% of the class on our database and of those people 64 have said that they plan to attend and bring a guest... which makes us a group of approx. 130 ppl... so we stand a good chance to get a really nice turn out with all of this communication and early planning. Let Christa or I know if you have any questions.
A ton of other things are in the works behind the scenes, I've updated our e-newsletter using www.constantcontact.com and will send it out shortly for all of you to see, this allows us to see what % of people on our list opened the newsletter, etc. Also, the web site should be started to be developed by my web guy next week, the sponsorship stuff is just about ready to go out to all of you to help sell sponsorships (Elsa is helping with this, Thanks, Elsa!) and we continue to get new names and contact information for our database almost daily. Oh, and we've gotta do the budget here soon, too.
This leads me to the most important point -- we need your $$$! We have to send our first check to Polo Grill soon and we've only got $250 in our account. We are asking each committee member to "pre-pay" the estimated $125 pp cost for themselves and a guest ($250 total) or whatever you can afford to send now. Some of you have replied and told me when it's coming and I thank you, but I haven't heard from many of you, so here's my humble request again to please send what you can so that we can start getting our deposit monies in. Please send checks made out to Southeast High Class of 1989 to me c/o Bennett Contracting, Attn: Alisa Bennett, 6029 33rd St E, Bradenton, 34203.
Interesting side note, after looking at www.classmates.com and our database we already have 27% of the class on our database and of those people 64 have said that they plan to attend and bring a guest... which makes us a group of approx. 130 ppl... so we stand a good chance to get a really nice turn out with all of this communication and early planning. Let Christa or I know if you have any questions.
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