Reunion Resources
Rationale
We have decided to offer a section on reunion planning. This
section is meant to improve the reunion experience while
making it easier for alumni committees to put together good
multi-featured reunions. If we can persuade reunion committees
to communicate to us both pre- and post-reunion, we can pool
ideas from the experiences of reunion committees and also
perhaps persuade businesses to provide better rates in
anticipation of having more than one class use their venues
and services. We're especially interested in enticing more
reunion attendance from distantly domiciled alumni, enticing
them with reunions that give them plenty of opportunity to mix
with their classmates and enjoy the new as well as the old in
Seattle. A feature we're most interested in facilitating is
the use of a well-located hotel center for out-of-towners so
that they can choose to stay at reduced rates where they will
find classmates.
QAHSAA Benefits and Terms
The Queen Anne High School Alumni Association,
formed the year the school closed and still having Board
meetings every month, can help reunion committees in several
ways. Here's the basic deal:
1. We can provide a reunion
committee our current mailing list for their class, provided
they in return give us all of their updated information that
might be different from what we have. (Such lists are to be used
for no other purpose than organizing reunions.)
2. Each
committee can use our bulk mailing permit, provided they follow
our guidleines.
3. We would like one of the alumni
association members to be able to sell QA merchandise at their
event with the proceeds of such sales going to the Alumni
Association. (These funds are used mainly to provide yearly
scholarships and produce the newsletter mailed out to over
12,000 alumni.)
4. We will hold any "left over" funds (at
no interest) in our account to be saved for that class's next
reunion committee.
Sample Weekend
The Class of 1952 reunion
schedule, covering four (4!) days, boded well for a good reunion
experience for '52 alumni. (The 3-day suggested reunion below is
not the '52 reunion schedule.)
Use of a hotel center, group sight-seeing
adventures, and perhaps group transportation may greatly enrich
a reunion. For example, we're aware of a hotel located at the
foot of Queen Anne near Seattle Center, which is, of course,
close to the Space Needle, the monorail to downtown, and Lake
Union. This hotel would cut room rates over 30% for our alumni
groups. Other hotels may do so as well. Here's a sample reunion
weekend.
Friday
Reception at host hotel. No-host bar in
small meeting room. Snack trays. Reunion committee greeters
present to provide schedules, name tags, remembrance books, etc.
Dinner-on-your-own at hotel or other restaurant.
Saturday
Breakfast
at hotel or at some such as the Swedish Club on Dexter Ave (view
over Lake Union). Group transportation provided for those
without cars.
Boat tour starting from Lake Union or
Elliott Bay. Group transportation then provided back to hotel.
Free afternoon for visiting Seattle Center, taking monorail
downtown, etc.
Reunion dinner at retaurant in Queen Anne
vicinity or perhaps at the Swedish Center. Displays of Queen
Anne memorabilia, photos, etc. Program. Dancing. Professional
photographer present for individual and group photos.
Sunday
Brunch at Swedish Club, Hiram's
at the locks or ?. Transportation to former Queen Anne High
School for tour of the building. Group photo in front of old
school. Picnic with box lunch at Gasworks Park (or?).
Contact us for more
info
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