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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 2 2016, 04:07 AM (228 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Oct 2 2016, 04:07 AM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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That's what we had last night. 76 year spread of alumni. The alumni association I founded to raise scholarships for my high school held our biggest event yet last night - an all-years reunion. We sold out the 400 tickets and had classes represented from 1938 to 2014. It was pretty awesome, and a good feeling. We sold some memberships, raffles, split the pots and probably raised $5-6K more for the fund this year. More importantly still, we raised awareness of the association. We graduate 400 seniors every year. If we can get membership up to 1,000 or more this thing will run itself. Feeling pretty good. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Oct 2 2016, 04:11 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Good job, Mik!
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 2 2016, 05:18 AM Post #3 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Hot damn, man. Fantastic! That's some seriously good progress. ![]() —Aqua, whose high school was forgettable and not worth supporting. |
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| brenda | Oct 2 2016, 01:07 PM Post #4 |
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That's impressive, Mik. People don't always stay connected to their high school after graduation. I sure haven't. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 2 2016, 01:14 PM Post #5 |
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I'm surprised I remember high school. We took the term quite literally. |
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| Rainman | Oct 2 2016, 01:29 PM Post #6 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I'm going to take your success and offer it as a suggestion locally. It's a great idea, to combine the years' and then raise money for kids now in school. I've never gone to a class reunion. Never wanted to. But, if it would have been a large, gala event where I didn't know most of the people, I would have been more inclined to attend, just to visit with people overall, and maybe touch base with a few classmates.
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 2 2016, 01:53 PM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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That's great. My insistence at day one was the the organization had to have a current relevance, not just nostalgia. |
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| Riley | Oct 2 2016, 04:22 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think that's an American thing, high school reunions. I'm coming up on 10 years and haven't heard anything about any reunion. Not that they would know how to contact most alumni anyway, I would think. |
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| Axtremus | Oct 2 2016, 05:22 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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May be a generational thing (also or instead, I'm not sure). Perhaps you can ask your parents/grandparents if high school reunion is/was a thing for them? |
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| Riley | Oct 2 2016, 05:29 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I'll ask them if I talk to them this week. My mom actually went to HS in the US and Canada. (She came to Canada when she was 15) |
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| Catseye | Oct 2 2016, 09:12 PM Post #11 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Congratulations. It must feel great to have had a hand in bringing this about. Not to mention seeing the inter-generational mingling and fun-having. It sounded like the kind of event people in communities got together for in days gone by. Wish you the best for your continued growth. But never mind all that. What I want to know is, what did you have to eat? Edited by Catseye, Oct 2 2016, 09:14 PM.
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| "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 3 2016, 03:38 AM Post #12 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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The Hot Shot...pulled pork, sauce and cole slaw atop a cornbread waffle. Could only eat the topping and about half the waffle. Respectable pulled pork. |
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| Mark | Oct 3 2016, 07:26 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Good job Mik! Never been to a reunion. Have no desire to attend one. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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