35 Year Reunion Update

35 Year Reunion Update What’s happening is this; the 35-year reunion is slated for Sept 16th 2006 at the Sportsman Lodge in Studio City Ca. Tickets are 80 dollars per person, this includes dinner and a memorybook. Ticket sales will be ongoing, but we need to know a ballpark number for those attending to place the orders.

Currently the confirmed list is around 85 classmates with guests and we should meet the basic expenses. We would like everyone to contact any classmates they may be in touch with and let them know about the reunion. Also if you are planning on attending please let us know, even if you cant confirm at this point. Were still missing a lot of Classmates, we are doing what we can, but the research staff is small, and I was just told one of them has been sick and is recovering. My own time is amazing limited this time around, but are are putting forth a heck of an effort to make this nice for everyone.

We need you're help
Im getting a lot of feedback asking if the reunion is still on, silly question. Is nobody reading the website? Turnout is small at this point but growing, clearly we still need to do more and get the word out. Please let classmates you are in touch with know. If your planning to go and just havent got the tickets yet or are only 85% sure then let me so I can add you to the RSVP list.

Links to the Sportsman
Say that you are with the poly71 reunion if booking a room. http://www.sportsmenslodge.com/ http://www.slhotel.com/ http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservations/Sportsmens_Lodge__Studio_City.htm

Write to Margie or Mike @ poly71.com

Class of 1971 35 Year Reunion Update - 04-05-2006

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Class of 1971 35 Year Reunion Update - 04-05-2006
Http://poly71.com

Sorry about the delay in Reunion News. A lot has dropped on my shoulders with my moms passing away in Nov. and it’s taken a while to get things sorted out Im going to be working on that for some time, but Im able to work on the reunion again.

To add to thing Margie has not been well, and we have had to get the loose ends sorted out before there could be any news.

35 Year Reunion.
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Things are being firmed up and a mailing will be sent out soon. I will keep everyone informed as the plans shape up, I don’t expect any change in plans at this point, but I have been surprised before.

Sept 16th 2006 is still the target date; the venue will be the Sportsman's Lodge in Studio City, where we had our 10th yr. Reunion. Tickets will be $80.00 PER TICKET.

Links to the Hotel - Info Only:
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INFO ON GROUP PRICING TO FOLLOW.


Sportsman Lodge.com

www.slhotel.com/

hotelclub.net - Sportsmens_Lodge

Orbits offers at Sportsmans

accomline.com/Sportsmens_Lodge

The area...
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I really must say the area is nice, safe and full of Interesting things to do and see. A short ride east will bring you to Universal City with a host of attractions, and a bit longer ride will take you to Burbank, its not all that far from the airport, golf course, parks, shopping. As I was asked a 3 dollar day pass on the RTD will get you around the area nicely.

There are lots of wonderful shops and interesting places to dine in the area.

We need help:
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First off we need all of you to get in touch with any Classmates you still be in contact with, time is in short supply and we need to get the word out.

We also need help in getting things together and finding lost classmates. If you would like to help out please let Margie or I know. mike@poly71.com or margie@poly71.com

Updates will be posted on the website, sent out in newsletters, and on the blog. Mailings will be going out in the next couple of weeks.

Well now

There will be a general E-mailing on monday March 27th concerning the reuion. Please bear with me.

Mike...

Website

Laura Hellenthal and Joe Sykora were kind enough to cover the hosting fee this year, that covers things until the day after the reunion and I will have something in place for that. A number of others offered to chip in and help out, and Im very grateful for the support, but time was so pressing that this was the only way to get it done without having the site go down.

On Friday for reasons I cant explain there was a second Poly71.com domain on hold, it did no harm as ours was active and a parked domain is transparent. My best guess is that maybe someone was trying to start another site, most likely for another school, altho it could be for a product or just about anything.

We are going to need help starting mid Oct in the search for missing classmates, if your interested in helping out let me know. Keep in mind this is going to be a long slow, but rewarding process.

We may be closer to anouncing the venue, we need to hash some things out and have a look at the contract. I had a very quick look at this one a couple weeks ago, access seems good, I liked the looked and feel of the place.

Its not that far from the Hilton, so the airports close as is City Walk. As its been asked the bus will get you there and take you to places of interest, that may be a factor for out of towners as cabs can be pricy, where a $3.00 pass will let you ride the bus all day and Metro Rail pass are cheap. Theres a couple of Metro access points as well, and the expanded service should be running at that time. I will try to get details up on points of interest once were sure about the venue.

Mike...

Well its that time yet again, and of course the check isnt in. So if we go down over the weekend I will be in touch with those of you I can reach.

Not much to add right now, but expect something soon.

Mike...

Quick update

July 7

The guestbook trashed, it would seem a robot placed an ad in the database that not only blocked the viewing of posts but attempted to send you off to its site. Removing it caused the SQL database our guestbook depends on to become scrambled. Its a bit of a pain to restore as you have to rebuild everything, happly I do keep copies of the pages so nothing was lost.

While I am at it I will be combining the 2 guestbooks (Old from the 2001 reunion and current from the time of the site move.) as well as updating the e-mail address in both. The plus there is you will know who we cant e-mail from the guestbooks and maybe someone will help us get back in touch with them.

July 8 -

The Guestbook has been restored and the old guestbook added to it, email address have been fixed or removed. With luck the changes I made will keep things from going boom again when some jerk trys to force the database to hold their ad. In other news were still looking over venues for the reunion, both the Sportsman in Studio City and Burbank Hilton have been looked at, there are issues we need to resolve before we can go with either. The Hilton for example wants a parking fee of $5.00 per car, has a number of things they want done their way. So were still looking for options.


Mike...

A bit of an update

Sept 23/24 2006 is the target date for the reunion. Currently we are sorting out the venue which will help us fix the ticket price. Music will be a Oldies with some newer songs by request. Food we are still sorting out. Dress will be simi-formal, dressed up but casual fits the bill. Those attending in a Tux will be dumped in the pool by the fashion police ;)

I have had a tooth ache from hell, so havent been responding to everyone as I should. Will be taking care of that this weekend. Other then that were gearing up to find lost and missing classmates, so check in with us if you read this.

Mike...