8/2/2011
WHS ’66 45th Reunion Update September 2 & 3, 2011 30 DAYS AND COUNTING DOWN !! Your reunion committee has quite a few activities lined up for our 45th Reunion weekend. We hope you can participate in as many as possible! FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 GOLF SCRAMBLE Noon: Lunch, Little Bear Golf Club 1:00 PM: Golf Scramble, Little Bear Golf Club
Even if you can’t play feel free to join us for lunch at the clubhouse. If you would like to play but don’t have clubs the scramble format makes it easy to play from someone else’s bag so don’t let that hold you back. The Scramble cost is $14 plus lunch if you choose to eat with us. Bob Curtin has generously agreed to organize the Scramble, so if you plan to play send him an email to so he can arrange the tee times accordingly. rctaxconsulting@insight.rr.com or call Bob at: 614-352-8725.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL & AFTER PARTY Watterson Football Friday night game vs. Beechcroft, 7:30 PM at Hagley Field at Arcadia and High Street in Clintonville. We think the cost is $6 but they may be charging more this year like everything else. We will sit in a section together and will be recognized as a group on the field at half time. After the game – or starting around halftime- we will start to gather at the Olentangy
Plaza Bar for an informal get-together. This worked really well 5 years ago and we had a nice crowd of about 50. There is no sign up or cost except a cash bar. We hope you will join us!
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50-50 DRAWING BOTH NIGHTS! Inside Story Headline you 6 tickets for $5. Al Standish We have added a 50-50 and some others will be Drawing for both nights. The proceeds from this will go to fund the website for the next 5 years and possibly beyond. Mike Boulware has kindly agreed to organize this activity and will be selling
assisting Mike so have some extra cash ready. You may be a winner and go home richer than you came!
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 WHS TOUR and MASS We are still hoping to have a tour of the new Dominican Hall at Watterson at 3:30 pm followed by a Mass in the Little Chapel at 4:00 pm, however low interest may cause us to cancel these activities. Right now we have 7 people who have expressed an interest in the tour and 8 who say they will attend mass. Since this is not a
regularly scheduled mass we must find our own priest and pay him a stipend. This is not really feasible unless more of you plan to come. If you would like to do either of these activities please email Linda Weiner Bennett at:
kudzukaty@yahoo.com.
Special Presentation At the Reunion Dinner we will be doing a short presentation to honor the memory of classmates we have lost. This will include an open mic segment led off by John Favret who will tell a story or two about some of these
former friends. If you have something to add we welcome you to come forward at that time. .
You may be a winner and go home richer than you came!
FIND OUT WHO IS ATTENDING THE REUNION!! If you go to our website: www.watterson1966.org to the top tab on the left: “Classmate Profiles” you will see a box at the top of the page. The fourth item down is: “Attending WHS ’66 45th Reunion”. If you click on that it will show you a list of everyone who has registered to date. Many, many of you have told us you are coming but haven’t completed the crucial step of registering yet. If your friends aren’t there give them a call or click on their profile on the website and send them a message. BTW this link only shows the names of actual classmates attending and does not include any guests they may be bringing.
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REUNION DINNER AND PARTY Cocktail Hour 6:30 PM Group Photo 7:15 PM Dinner 7:30 PM The main event of the weekend begins at 6:30 pm on Saturday night at the Little Bear Lodge near Polaris. We have lots of fun planned for the evening you won’t want to miss!
The re a re a num be r of our cla ssmate s who hav e he lp ed to p ut toget he r a fun we e ke nd for all of us. Give a shout out to: Mike B oul ware, T oni Ca rd i, B ob Curti n, Bonnie J ona sBoggioni, J od ell e Si ms, Ca rol We iner, Li nd a Wei ne r B ennett, Kathy Wi nte ri ng Na gy, and J a nie Al bri ght Bla nk.
We ca n st ill use a ha nd for de corat ing on Sat urd ay a nd for worki ng t he re gi strati on ta ble on Sat urd ay ni ght. If y ou are so incline d se nd
an e ma il t o : watterson19 66@aol .co m
Our dinner will be an Italian Buffet with a cash bar. Yes, the cost is $45 and No, it is not a sit down dinner with filet mignon.
As many of you realize the cost of putting on an event like this includes a lot more than the actual meal. There is a room charge, linens, decorations, printing and stamps and it goes on from there. We have tried to keep the cost down by using the website and emailing wherever possible. We hope to make it a really special party that you will find well worth the price. This year we have added a DJ to the mix.
GROUP PHOTOS As mentioned above the group photo will be taken at 7:15pm. This year we have hired a photographer who will take our group photo and then deliver the final photo the same evening! No longer do we need to wait like in previous years. We will also have signs (borrowed from the class of ’65) for each grade school parish and will
make announcements so you can be part of your grade school group photo. These, too, will be ready before the party ends. The total for the photos is $17 and should be paid in cash or by check that evening.
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NEED FINAL COUNT A WEEK AHEAD The Little Bear Lodge requires a final count the week before so please register as soon as possible. You wont be able to make a last second decision on attending as some of you did when it was at Mary Lynne’s 5 years ago. This only comes around every five years and we aren’t getting any younger so arrange your schedule and make it happen! www.watterson1966.org
REUNION DETAILS The Reunion invitation, addresses of event locations, map to Little Bear Lodge and the actual registration form are all online at: www.watterson1966.org. If you go to the second tab on the left “WHS 45th Reunion” it will allow you to register and the form will automatically populate all of your information. Go down the page and fill out your registration. You can choose to pay by credit card or mail in a check. When you complete the registration it will give you a chance to choose how you want to pay and give you the address to mail a check if you select that option.
UPDATE YOUR PROFILE NOW! If you haven’t filled out your profile yet now is the time! If you haven’t updated it in awhile please take a minute to do that now. We are not publishing a book or giving out a CD this time. You can see profiles anytime from our website. Since the time that many of you filled out your profiles we have added some questions to prompt you and make the process easier. Some of the questions we ask are: What did you do after Watterson? Tell us a little about what have you been doing lately? It easy to add a photo or a few and it is fun to look through the profiles of some of your old friends. You can sort classmates alphabetically, by latest member to the site or latest profile update, Bonnie Jonas-Boggioni has loaded most everyone’s class picture to their profile as well. A little reminder to jog the memory never hurts. As of this writing we have 129 profiles on the site; that’s over half of you. If yours isn’t there yet, go for it! We hope to see many more profiles in the next few weeks. Whether or not you can make this reunion it is always nice to remain a part of the class and keep in touch in this way. If you have a problem filling out the registration or have questions we have not answered here email: watterson1966@aol.com or call Janie at 614-975-3517 or Toni at 614-457-2767. We will be glad to help you!