UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

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Are you planning on attending the 50th Reunion?

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Upcoming Planning Committee Meetings

When: 4pm, Saturday, April 7rd

Where: Judy Hick's work site

Clean Water Services,

16580 SW 85th Ave, Tigard, OR

Note: call Judy's cell

503-572-5110 for access to the site

Who: All Classmates!!! We need help planning the Reunion.

Just show up, everyone can contribute. Big or small jobs.

It doesn't matter how much time you have to give. Just

show up and support the work to be done. Spend time with

classmates you haven't seen for a long time. Have FUN!!!

Minutes from prior meetings are also sent to classmates

with a current email address.

Minutes of Last Two Planning Meetngs

February Planning Meeting Minutes

DHS 50th Reunion Planning Meeting

4pm 2/4/2018

Clean Water Services Office, Tigard,OR

SAVE the DATE: Our 50th Reunion is Sept. 28, 29, 30, 2018

Reviewed the Minutes from January, 6 meeting

DiAnne sent out Jan meeting minutes to all classmates for whom we have working email addresses.

Some classmates have contacted DiAnne based on receiving the Minutes and the Agendas and have indicated interest in the Reunion

It was agreed to reimburse Jess Birge $75 for the money he paid to reserve the Sorosis Park shelter for Saturday Lunch. Karen Jolliffe will send him a check.

Judy Hicks-West: Registration

We have a five foot duck cotton banner which says “Class of 1968”. Judy is looking into having the names of all classmates listed in the yearbook put onto the banner. Note: if you know someone who’s picture or name is not in the yearbook but who was in our class please contact Judy so their name can be included, jawest100@gmail.com

Judy will continue to seek out catering options for Saturday lunch

Terry Cole Woodhams: Saturday Evening Dinner

Crimson and grey linens do not appear to be easily available in The Dalles. She will pursue looking in other venues for rental options, ex Portland.

Terry is looking for committee members to help her with simple table decorations as well as general décor for the Saturday dinner at the Country Club. If you are interested please contact Terry, terrynsteve85@q.com

Terry and Judy will visit The Dalles to complete several tasks:

Visit Brew Pubs to determine which one would work for the Friday Night 9:30 No-Host Get Together

Talk with the Chamber of Commerce about Gift Bags and hotel/motel accommodations for classmates coming from out of town (any deals available?)

Visit Spooky’s to reserve large room for Friday evening, Sept 28

Visit Granada, is this a possible location for Sunday No Host Lunch?

Possibly meet with interested local classmates to review Reunion Plans over lunch, if interested in meeting please email Judy jawest100@gmail.com

Meet the Dalles/Wahtonka Museum folks about articles we can borrow for Saturday dinner decorations

DiAnne Fentress-Rowe: Donations

Donations from several classmates total $1525.00. Donations are VERY welcome and are helping defray the costs of the Reunion, please send donations to: Karen Jolliffe

1801 35th

San Francisco, CA 94122

Donations will be put into the bank account this next week, we are sorry it has taken so long to get the banking account set up but it is now in place. Thank you for your patience while we have held the donation checks.

DiAnne: General Reunion Planning

We are still seeking a Correspondence Secretary to do things like send out Thank You notes, invite special guests/retired teachers to the Reunion dinner, etc. If you are interested PLEASE let DiAnne know. This is a job that can be done from anywhere!!!!! DiAnne will continue to do all other secretarial tasks. Contact DiAnne at dfrowe@comcast.net.

New Business

We are still looking for classmates to volunteer for a variety of jobs:

Spearhead the fundraising Silent and Live Auction during the dinner on Saturday. Note: This job can be done from anywhere. If you have any experience with silent and live auctions please volunteer for this job. Donations will be collected at registration. The physical work will be the weekend of the Reunion but making calls, soliciting donations from classmates and businesses, doing the paperwork….these tasks can be done from anywhere.

Work with Ed Drury on the music during the dinner and for dancing after dinner on Saturday. Ed lives in the Portland area. If you have a musical interest, please volunteer to work with Ed on creating great sounds for the Saturday dinner.

Photographer(s) for Formal Group and casual photos during the Reunion. Make a photo display for our website of photos taken during the Reunion. We need a couple of skills here; first we need to find someone to take the full class picture on the steps of the high school Saturday late afternoon. We also need someone, or more than one person, who understands social media who can direct classmates to upload all their cell phone pictures to a site, then organize those photos and put the best on our Facebook page and class website.

Classmates to work with Terry Cole on decorations for the Dinner on Saturday and the clean up after the dinner

Spearhead the Saturday Picnic Memory Display. The Reunion Planning Committee want classmates to bring elementary school classroom photos, junior and senior high pictures casual, prom pictures, whatever you have to the Saturday lunch. Also bring any mementoes from your years of schooling in The Dalles, from things you made in Art class to things you made in Shop. From the football you made a touchdown with a “Carnival”play script. Whatever it is, PLEASE bring it. We want to set up a display of all of these pieces of Memorabilia for classmates to look at both during the Saturday lunch and dinner. The list is endless, start looking through your attics now!

We need some people to help with the set up of the display at each site and to help make sure everything get back to the owners as the display get’s taken down.This display could be very meaningful if we think about what was important to us growing up and share it…I wish I had kept my roller skates!

Helping Classmates and Families to personal choice activities on Saturday afternoon via shuttle them, as out of town folks may not have cars and/or leading tours

Spearhead the development of the Class Memory Book If you have skills in the area of graphic arts, web-based design and publishing and/or printing this one is for you. We need someone (more than one?) classmate who has the knowledge and skill to take the information provided by each classmate in response to questions in their Registration Packet and turn those into a Memory Book which will be handed out during the Reunion.

Planning Calendar

Outline what needs to be done each month:

March 3rd (Meeting date)

Terry and Judy visit The Dalles, meet with classmates over lunch

April 7th

Send out Registration and Memory Book Information packet

May 5th

June 2nd

Re-send Registration and Memory Book packet

July 7th

Last sending of Registration and Memory Book packet to anyone not yet responded

August 4th

September 1st

How will we know the tasks are completed?

Review of Reunion Daily Events (see attached):

Friday

Agreed to start registration at 5pm at Spooky’s

Judy will talk with Jim Slusher, Trivia Host, regarding need for prizes for the contests

Saturday

No changes in the Draft schedule

Sunday

Look into the possibility of having the No Host lunch at the newly remodeled Granada Theater

Discussion of the Silent and Live Auctions

It was agreed that both the Silent and Live Auctions will be held during the dinner Saturday evening at the Country Club

We still need someone to take on the responsibilities of these two events.

Judy made the suggestions that the “bidders” papers be available during lunch so people could see what was going to be available at the auctions, and therefore bring money to the event!!!

The wording for the website announcement was reviewed and agreed upon.

We need items for the auctions. Classmates can bring their donations when they register on Friday night at Spooky’s. Donation suggestions include:

Baskets such as: Family games, Movie night, wine, home made jelly/jam, etc

Note: Since the Cleveland Indians have decided to no longer use Chief Wahoo as their mascot it is believed we no longer need their permission to use it ourselves. This is important since, when The Dalles and Wahtonka merged, The Dalles High gave up the permission it had received from the Cleveland Indians many years ago to use the logo.

Announce “Turning off cell phones but before you do ; Now is the time to take out your phones and take a selfie pic with your tablemates and post to Facebook using _______, as you can do for all the pictures you have taken throughout the weekend. Now please, turn off your phones.

Thank you and introduce our photographer and videographer ______________

Thank and introduce Rachel and the staff at the Country Club for the Great Dinner and Thank our classmate Terry Cole Woodhams and her team of classmates for organizing and decorating this dinner.

Thank you to Ed Drury for the music provided during the evening

Introduce our classmates Steve Hodges and ________ at this time.

___________ will ask all who served in the military to come forward.

Steve Hodges will pay a saxophone solo “Lean On Me” as people come forward

__________ and classmates will read the “Veteran’s Salute” together, as found at each place setting

Steve will continue to pay as classmates find their way back to their seats

Jim and Phil: Video of our Class History

Live Auction Items

…

Acknowledgments and prizes for Classmates

who traveled the furthest

couple who are the longest married

who have the most total children (children+grandchildren+great-granchildren)

drawing of lucky classmate who get’s their ___ registration refunded in cash

..

..

Mention of the Memorabilia Display and where it is in the room

Mention of the Donation Jars in a couple of places around the room (by the desserts and by the Memorabilia). Please help defray cost of future Class functions.

Review of Sunday events, Thank you to Wendy Palmer Patterson for the Celebration of Classmates who have Passed 11:30 am Sunday Morning at Sorosis Park, OYO lunch at 12:30 at ________.

Thank you to the Reunion Planning Committee

Now, Who wants to do this again? When???? Who wants to help with the Planning???

Sunday Schedule

The Dalles High School Class of 1968 50th Reunion

September 30th, 2018

11:00 am Memorial for Classmates, Sorosis Park Shelter

Wendy Palmer Patterson

12:30 pm Lunch On You Own, maybe at the Granada

End of our 50th High School Class Reunion

March Planning Meeting

4pm 3/2/2018

Meeting held in Molalla, Ore

SAVE the DATE: Our 50th Reunion is Sept. 28, 29, 30, 2018

It was decided to hold on reviewing the Minutes from February until more members were available for input. NOTE: Minutes were subsequently approved.

Finance:

DiAnne spent $26.78 at Office Depot for envelopes and card stock for Thank You cards. The receipt was put in the Receipts envelope.

Judy Hicks-West: Registration

Judy has a list of 4 possible caterer’s for the Saturday lunch, she will contact them when she and Terry go The Dalles probably next week.

Terry Cole Woodhams: Saturday Evening Dinner

No report

Mike Bartell: Friday Night Activities

Mike has contacted Matt Morgan, the VP/Athletic Director at The Dalles/Wahtonka High School

The Dalles has joined the Tri-Valley 4A League for football and will have a home game on Sept 28th, the game could be a homecoming game. The game will be against Gladstone.

He is working with the school regarding the half time recognition for the football team, band, cheerleader and Boosters on the field and recognition of any 50th Reunion class member by having them stand up in the stands during halftime.

DiAnne Fentress-Rowe: Donations

No new donations this month. All donations are now in the class bank account.

The data base has been significantly updated by adding all of the information from the class website to the data base.

New Business

We are still looking for classmates to volunteer for a variety of jobs:

Spearhead the fundraising Silent and Live Auction during the dinner on Saturday. Note: This job can be done from anywhere. If you have any experience with silent and live auctions please volunteer for this job. Donations will be collected at registration. The physical work will be the weekend of the Reunion but making calls, soliciting donations from classmates and businesses, doing the paperwork….these tasks can be done from anywhere. We are hoping each classmate brings an auction item with them (a basket for the Saturday lunch silent auction or anything for the Saturday dinner silent and live auctions).

Work with Ed Drury on the music during the dinner and for dancing after dinner on Saturday. Ed lives in the Portland area. If you have a musical interest, please volunteer to work with Ed on creating great sounds for the Saturday dinner.

Make a photo display for our website of photos taken during the Reunion. We need someone, or more than one person, who understands social media who can help classmates upload all their cell phone pictures to a site, then organize those photos and put the best on our Facebook page and class website. This person would have created the site to send the pictures also.

Classmates to work with Terry Cole on decorations for the Dinner on Saturday and the clean up after the dinner

Spearhead the Saturday Picnic Memory Display. The Reunion Planning Committee want classmates to bring elementary school classroom photos, junior and senior high pictures casual, prom pictures, whatever you have to the Saturday lunch. Also bring any mementoes from your years of schooling in The Dalles, from things you made in Art class to things you made in Shop. From the football you made a touchdown with a “Carnival” play script. Whatever it is, PLEASE bring it. We want to set up a display of all of these pieces of Memorabilia for classmates to look at both during the Saturday lunch and dinner. The list is endless, start looking through your attics now!

We need some people to help with the set up of the display at each site and to help make sure everything get back to the owners as the display get’s taken down.This display could be very meaningful if we think about what was important to us growing up and share it…I wish I had kept my roller skates!

Helping Classmates and Families to personal choice activities on Saturday afternoon via shuttle them, as out of town folks may not have cars and/or leading tours

Spearhead the development of the Class Memory Book If you have skills in the area of graphic arts, web-based design and publishing, printing this one is for you. We need someone (more than one?) classmate who has the knowledge and skill to take the information provided by each classmate in response to questions in their Registration Packet and turn those into a Memory Book.

Developing a Planning Calendar will be topic of the February Meeting

Outline what needs to be done each month:

Review of the Planning Calendar

Discuss during March 3rd meeting:

Terry and Judy visit The Dalles to complete several tasks:

Visit Brew Pubs to determine which one would work for the Friday Night 9:30 No-Host Get Together

Talk with the Chamber of Commerce about Gift Bags and hotel/motel accommodations for classmates coming from out of town (any deals available?)

Visit Spooky’s to reserve large room for Friday evening, Sept 28

Visit Granada, is this a possible location for Sunday No Host Lunch?

Possibly meet with interested local classmates to review Reunion Plans over lunch, if interested in meeting please email Judy jawest100@gmail.com

Meet the Dalles/Wahtonka Museum folks about articles we can borrow for Saturday dinner decorations

Other ideas?

April

Send out Registration and Memory Book Information packets

May

Phone Tree??

June

Re-send Registration and Memory Book packets to those who have not yet responded

July

Last sending out of Registration and Memory Book packet to anyone not yet responded

August (Aug 30th is the last day to Register for the Reunion)

Phone Tree Again???

September 1st

Details, details, details, details, details…..

What about all the other pieces?

Getting/giving prizes

Trivia Contest on Friday evening – scratch off tickets??

Dinner Contests on Saturday evening - ??

Honor for our people who have been in the military – how can we best show respect?

Signs, signs and more signs

Big signs in The Dalles (motels, Chamber of Commerce, etc)

Smaller signs in buildings and Sorosis Park (do we have someone in our class who has a printing business??)

Getting donations for the Auctions (silent basket auction during lunch at Sorosis and silent and live auctions during dinner at the Country Club). We are hoping classmates will bring auction items to Registration Friday evening. Our hope is that most classmates bring an auction item to the Reunion to help fund Reunions in the future as well as our class website.

A big Thank You to those who have sent Donations in already. Classmates please donate whatever you can to help the Planning Committee put together a memorable and worthy Reunion.

Funds you donate will help accommplish these and other tasks:

reserve the location for the dinner

reserve the location for the picnic

purchase postage stamps and printing for mailings

printing and decorations for Reunion

keep this website up and running into the future.

Please send donations to:

Karen Jolliffe

1801 35th

San Francisco, CA 94122

You may have noticed our Classmates who have passed before us are now listed in the Classmate Profile Tab. They are listed with three *** next to their name. The Classmates page lists only peers who graduated with us, some students, such as Alice Parsonsmoved away before graduation so her name is on listed on this page.

If you click on a listed name you will be taken to a page with a scroll. You can write stories, memories, "tall tales", poems, etc. on their scroll. There you can say anything you would like to say about that person, to that person or things you would like others to know about that person. It is a chance, as a class and as individuals, to share our thoughts and feelings about those classmates who have gone before.

Please review the list of "Missing Classmates" tab as we make changes when we update the Data Base. If you know how to contact any of these classmates please let them know we want to include them in our Reunion Planning and please send their contact information to DiAnne, dfrowe@comcast.net, Thank You.

Name:

Address:

Phone:

Email:

Our Goal is to have at least 70% of our Classmates participate in some part of our 50th Reunion Celebration. Please help us reach this Goal.

The Schedule of Events for Reuntion Weekend

h School Class of 1968 50th Reunion

Friday

September 28th, 2018

5:00 pm Registration Opens, Spooky’s Pizza

Judy Hicks West

Option 1 Classmates Stay at Spooky’s

Option 1 Classmates go to The Dalles High Football Field where at Halftime the 1968 Booster, Football

Announce “Turning off cell phones but before you do ; Now is the time to take out your phones and take a selfie pic with your tablemates and post to Facebook using _______, as you can do for all the pictures you have taken throughout the weekend. Now please, turn off your phones.

Thank you and introduce our photographer and videographer ______________

Thank and introduce Rachel and the staff at the Country Club for the Great Dinner and Thank our classmate Terry Cole Woodhams and her team of classmates for organizing and decorating this dinner.

Thank you to Ed Drury for the music provided during the evening

Introduce our classmates Steve Hodges and ________ at this time.

___________ will ask all who served in the military to come forward.

Steve Hodges will pay a saxophone solo “Lean On Me” as people come forward

__________ and classmates will read the “Veteran’s Salute” together, as found at each place setting

Steve will continue to pay as classmates find their way back to their seats

Jim and Phil: Video of our Class History

Live Auction Items

…

Acknowledgments and prizes for Classmates

who traveled the furthest

couple who are the longest married

who have the most total children (children+grandchildren+great-granchildren)

drawing of lucky classmate who get’s their ___ registration refunded in cash

..

..

Mention of the Memorabilia Display and where it is in the room

Mention of the Donation Jars in a couple of places around the room (by the desserts and by the Memorabilia). Please help defray cost of future Class functions.

Review of Sunday events, Thank you to Wendy Palmer Patterson for the Celebration of Classmates who have Passed 11:30 am Sunday Morning at Sorosis Park, OYO lunch at 12:30 at ________.

Thank you to the Reunion Planning Committee

Now, Who wants to do this again? When???? Who wants to help with the Planning???

Sunday Schedule

The Dalles High School Class of 1968 50th Reunion

September 30th, 2018

11:00 am Memorial for Classmates, Sorosis Park Shelter

Wendy Palmer Patterson

12:30 pm Lunch On You Own, maybe at the Granada

End of our 50th High School Class Reunion

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Do you have suggestions or ideas to make our 50th Reunion even more meaningful? If so, please share. The Planning Committee is seeking input to help plan a memorable weekend. Thank you.