William A. Wirt High School
Class of 1970
Reunion Committee Meeting Minutes
November 4, 2009
In attendance: Sandy McMullen (Kummerer), Mary Jo McDonald (Cooke), Kathi Millet (Zick),
and Peggy Guernsey.
The meeting was held at T.J. Maloney’s in Merrillville, IN.
The following items were discussed:
- Sandy took the group on a tour of the various areas we will be using for the Reunion. T.J. Maloney’s is the sight for the Friday night get-together and we will have the use of a very nice area in the back of the restaurant/pub. Plenty of room to mingle and enjoy refreshments. There is also a hospitality room that will be available to us throughout the weekend. This room will be more of a reunion headquarters area or place for people to sit and relax. There will be no liquor or food set up in this area. The banquet room for Saturday night is nice and your typical banquet room set-up.
2. The cost for rooms at the Radisson will be $129 + taxes. Right now, 20 rooms are being held. We are not obligated to book any rooms, so there won’t be a penalty if we do not use all 20 rooms. Another plus for having the reunion at the Radisson is that there are several other hotels in the area if someone wants to stay elsewhere.
3. The Friday evening event will start at 7:00 p.m. and we have the room until 1:00 a.m. There will be a 2 hour window that appetizers will be available. The committee felt that 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. for the appetizers would be good. We are figuring right now that the cost for Friday’s event will be $25 per person. This does not include alcohol. We felt that by having a cash bar it would be more appealing to the majority. This way you are not paying for alcohol if you don’t drink and we can keep the price down and have a nice variety of appetizers.
4. Saturday’s event is $85 per person which includes an open bar. We have plans to offer an early bird incentive for both evenings of $20 for Friday night & $75 for Saturday night. Right now we are looking at a January 31st deadline for the early bird prices.
5. Kathi & Peggy will be working on getting the contact info needed to send out the invitations. Mary Jo will be contacting Mark Miller to make sure we have the most up-to-date information. As soon as we know from Mark, Kathi & Peggy will get busy trying to contact the remainder of our class. The plan is to make the invitation available through the internet in order to save postage, so, hopefully, we will be able to reach the majority of the class via email. The remainder will be mailed and Peggy will take care of getting clear labels for the mailing.
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6. We pretty much ruled out a live band because of cost. We have two DJ options that we will check out in the near future. Sandy has the information on one and Mary Jo has the information on the other.
7. Sandy will get with Lucy Donovan (Steudl), Class of ’69 – to work up the invitation. Lucy has offered to help us out and we will be able to use some of the ideas they used for their reunion.
8. Sandy has been in touch with Karen Easley, who has offered to help with the Program Book.
9. Kathi Millet will be contacting Linda Kittle (Cunningham) who took our class pictures at the last reunion to see if she would want to take care of it again.
10. It was the general consensus of the very small committee that we could really use some additional help. If anyone in the area would like to help out we would welcome any assistance we could get.
11. It was agreed by the four of us that this reunion will be a really great time and that having it at the Radisson was really a wonderful idea. We’re excited!!
The next committee meeting will be held on Monday, December 7th, 6:30 p.m. at
T.J. Maloney’s in Merrillville, IN.