- We have established a venue, a date, food, DJ & band, door prizes, and are almost done the website (yup! sounds like a lot of work but the ex is really well connected - so it's been a breeze).
- We had out first face-to-face meeting - where we were able to accomplish virtually nothing but did fall into a pattern of finishing each other's sentences - This sucks! I really hate being/feeling connected to someone I consider to be pompous and arrogant (especially since I absolutely adore my partner, the one I've been with for the last 10 years).
- My job is to contact the 568 people we graduated with. So far I've tried emailing everyone I know and asking them to send me all the info on the contacts that they still have, I've posted on Facebook, Classmates, Gradfinder, and Reunion.com, and I've contacted the high school. Have any of you (yup! all 3 of you who read my blog) ever planned a reunion? Do you have any suggestions for contacting people?
Well I guess I had better get back to my presentation for tomorrow's class. Have a great week!
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I've never planned a reunion...not to be a grouch about it but I would probably be of the ones thinking of good excuses for missing the reunion.
Ah yes! That would lead back to my control issues, I would not be going either unless I was completely sure it would be fun (hence the organizing even when I don't have time).
Haha... it frightens me sometimes how much us psyc grad students are alike, particularly in our need for control.
However, best of luck! My reunion is still around 2 years away and I live far enough away to officially play no role-- but my grad class only have 70 people, so it would be a lot easier!
I was on the planning committee for my 10 year. We used the class websites you talked about, and found creative ways to post contact information for the reunion planners (those sites sometimes block real email addresses). We called people's parents to obtain their phone numbers (a surprising number of people's parents still lived in the same house) and we contacted our old high school for reunion planning resources. I have seen people post on MySpace as well...the friends of friends of friends news seems to travel well on that platform! Good luck with it - ours was a blast. It amazed me how the gap between the cool and uncool shrank in ten years :o)
Thanks Shorty - MySpace is a great suggestion.
My reunion sucked. It was expensive for what it was ($95 for a buffet dinner and 1 drink). Further, I sort of expected the DJ to play music from that year, but didn't and we all sat in the same cliques of people we did when we were in HS. Since then, I've reconnected with some people through MySpace and most of them are people that didn't go to the reunion because of the cost.
As far as control goes, I've actually been toying with the idea of planning a 15 year reunion instead of waiting for 20 given that the turnout for the last one was so bad and the reunion itself was so crappy (cause I do love to throw a good party).
So my advice? Keep the cost as low as possible but without cheaping out, potentially give discounts for couples (nearly $200 for a couple was a definate factor in ours), and include activities that get the groups to mix. Chances are some of the cliques have stayed friends over the years and it's way easier to mingle with them than with the people you didn't like 10 years ago.
Good luck.
Oh and my ex was just as arrogant as when I dated him 10 years prior too. :)
Thanks Abbey - I think we are going to have a hard time getting people to mix (it's in a bar), but the tickets are $ 30 a person and include food and a couple of drinks (and still I am getting price complaints!?!).
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