Hello Everyone!
We had a wonderful time at Nick's Saturday, with some awesome food. Carol was there collecting recipes for the NHS 74 Recipe website. Please send Carol your recipes, along with a story behind the recipe! Cris has one about her lasagne that is very funny. We will link to Carol's site as soon as she gets it up and running. You can email Carol by going to Classmate Profiles on this site, clicking on Carol's name, and then scrolling to the bottom of her profile page.
Carol has also agreed to be an admin for our class site, along with Judy. This brings our number of admins up to 4.
As most of you know, Ricky Mosby could not attend on Saturday. He is in the hospital in Houston in critical condition. He apparently had heart trouble a few years ago and had a valve replacement. He has pneunomia presently, which also required him to go on a respirator. Prayers are going up for Ricky's healing and for strength for his wife Loretta.
Judy has also graciously volunteered to oversee our Silent Auction. I've seen these at many reunions I have attended, and they've been very successful in bringing in extra cash to keep in the class fund, as well as provide funds for the class to donate to the NHSAA. Please think about any items you can donate and let Judy or me know what the item is and what you consider a good minimum bid. Judy is so organized that she plans to have the bid sheets all typed beforehand, even putting the incremental bid amounts on them! You can bring items for the auction to the reunion, just let Judy or me know what they are by June 15 so she can complete the early paperwork and things will go smoothly. We will post the list on the class site as it is finalized.
The Silent Auction will be held Saturday night only, from 6 PM to 9:45 PM, with the winning bids announced before the band plays at 10 PM. We can use some volunteers to help us collect the bid sheets and to collect the money. I have Lisa Steed, Susan Wakefield, Fern Simmons, Lisa Bodrie, Debbie Beall, Brenda Gossage, Karen Benton, Cal, and me so far. Please let me know if you can help us out!
Joey has announced that she is donating a 3 night stay at one of the Diamond resorts in Vegas. This is going to be a prize rather than an auction item, announced after the band plays. We will have other door prizes that you will register for as you arrive on Saturday night. And don't duck out early--you must be present to win the door prizes!
Several have agreed to supply centerpieces and these will be judged and prizes given for them also. If the contributor agrees, they will also be part of the Silent Auction. So far, Lisa S, Cris, Rose, Cindy, and Jan have volunteered for this. We need more!
The Happy Hour at the Hotel will be on Friday from 5 to 7. We have 6th floor rooms at the Hotel as well as Cabana rooms with an NHS 74 rate. We also have rooms blocked at the Hampton Inn, the LaQuinta Inn, and the Holiday Inn Express on South St. Please make your reservations today and let me know if you have any problems. We have special rates at all these hotels, starting at $90 per night.
Pictures for the slideshow are coming in and I'm so excited to get them. Please dig out your old albums and send me your pix. Some of you have come up with some gems. The slideshow will be played while we eat dinner.
We aren't going to have a long, formal program this time. Just a prayer before we eat, a recognition of our teachers who are in attendance, and a special football presentation for our coaches. Players, be sure you sign the 2 footballs sometime on Friday or Saturday. And be sure and get your football stories emailed to me and Cal to put on the coach's clipboards!
We will have a formal group picture after we eat, along with group pictures of other classes who are in attendance, then one picture of everyone in attendance. We'll try to get these done as quickly as possible.
I think that's about it for now. If you have any questions, shoot me an email and I'll get the answer for you.
This past weekend marked a year since we lost Clara. I think about her often. I must admit it was hard to move her pictures to the Tribute section in our slideshow and I honestly kept forgetting to move Charles'. It just doesn't seem possible that they are gone.
Let's make this a grand reunion in their honor and in memory of all the others who aren't with us!
Have a great week.
