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nother interesting year is coming to an end, but not without great hope for a healthier year ahead. We look forward to the continued growth of reunion attendance in 2022 and beyond. For reunions that have had a two-year hiatus, there should be many joyous meetings ahead — anticipating hugs, laughs and happiness.
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advice about how to pry loose those pesky phones from young and old members who seem so addicted to them. Coming to a reunion only to spend it peering at screens call 414-263-4567 seems to be a dilemma worth discussing. visit www.reunionsmag.com What are your thoughts and experience? e-mail editor@reunionsmag.com Please send to editor@reunionsmag.com and thank you. IN THIS ISSUE We owe a deep apology to contributor Leah Jordan Bisel who reported about her mini-reunion in the last issue and asks There are our usual interesting family, class and military reunions that will give you ideas for your own planning. But perhaps more importantly, we have gathered three large features that will hopefully be just what you need for your current planning. Learn from many other reunions how their committees/planning teams work, plus see samples of reunion invitations and those special souvenir reunion t-shirts. We suspect you’ll come away from those three sections with lots of ideas to contemplate for your own reunion. There are also two discussions that resulted from questions we often receive and we’d be honored to hear your advice. One is “finding the spark to maintain reunions after an older generation of planners has passed on.” The second discussion is “how to accommodate aging members at reunions who are suffering from dementia.” We urge you to share your own experience so we can pass it on to other planners. And for our next issue, we’d appreciate learning from your experience/
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about the name on their t-shirts in this issue. Leah was not properly credited in the September issue’s Table of Contents, for which we have egg all over our face and are sincerely ashamed! In addition, we also misspelled her surname. So sorry, Leah! Now, how can you find your reunion on these pages? Pretty simple! Just send your stories/reports/pictures/videos to editor@reunionsmag.com. There is no requirement that it be a current reunion. Share past special memories of reunions… the ones that everyone starts out by saying: “remember when …?” Note that we edit everything we use so make sure the facts are right and the names spelled correctly and we will make you proud.
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