Sunday, August 16, 2015

Reunion Info Update

The May 13-15, 2016 reunion for Piscataway classes of 1965, 1966, and 1967 is being worked on.

 I am trying to gether classmates to let them know about it. This is not an easy task. (especially with a second reunion for the same group happening in October, 2016 with a big database of classmates from when we were all working together on just one event).

 Be that as it may, here are our avenues of contact:
 On Facebook, Kathy Klastava and I have been posting about it on our personal pages.

She has it as a Facebook event, but needs to get invitations to it out to people.

There is a facebook page called Fiftyish Reunion  that promotes the reunion as well as being a meeting place for relevant class members. There are limited participants so far, not only for the difficulty in contacting people about it (Facebook charges money to "boost" posts on it) (you can only invite friends or "share the site" with a proscribed list of email address on like yahoo or something....too wide a group) but also for the fact that many friends who were invited to "like" the page apparently didn't know how to click the button to do so. Oy.

So far there have been page posts asking questions, but the only responder, basically, is me!

Info about it is on classmates website  and the Piscataway alumni site

I sent a personal letter to almost every class of '67 member on classmates.com, but had a very limited response. The people who responded were interested and happy to hear from me, but I fear that site is outdated and people probably don't even have their same contact info as they did when they first signed on years ago and who looks at it if they don't notify you about a message?

There is an official reunion webpage- http://piscatawayreunion.homestead.com
and I am using the contact page on it to create a Directory so people can find out where everyone is now and what they've been up to....and to make life a lot easier for the contacting classmates for the next reunion.

Kathy handed out some flyers around town.

Erna has been calling people.

I was in contact with a Class of '64 graduate who forwarded a note from me to his group, asking if they had brothers, sisters, friends from our classes they are still in touch with. I have no responses from that avenue yet, except he sent it to teachers, too, and I heard from Pat Manfredi, my English teacher!

I am looking forward to seeing Eric Haines again after all these years. He is on the committee now and another meeting is going to be happening soon, hopefully.

I am also looking forward to seeing Norm Winter, the PTHS teacher who is going to be the guest speaker at the reunion and get back in touch with Sue Hayes Winter, my former Overbrook Rd. neighborhood friend.

I am looking forward to seeing all my classmates! I look through the yearbook and smile at all the photos and can't wait to see them in person!


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