Hi again guys.
Ticket sales and planning are coming along extremely well for our 60th anniversary reunion to be held at the Niagara Falls Badminton and Tennis Club on Saturday, September 26.
Your reunion committee headed by Frank Healey has been actively planning the day's activities.
The committee's focus has been to make this an enjoyable and worthwhile opportunity for each of us to reunite with our friends from years gone by.
Here are some updates:
1. Agenda
While the facilities are available to us from 11 a.m. that day until 1 a.m. Sunday morning, the core part of the reunion gathering at the Badminton Club will be in the afternoon from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Hot dogs and hamburgers will be included and a full bar will be available. Dress will be informal. Both indoor and outdoor facilities will be available.
2. Tickets
$20 each. Advanced sales are proceeding very well. We have already received payment for 30 tickets with limited initial promotion. Ticket sales will climb dramatically as the reunion nears and everyone realizes that this is going to be a great success.
3. Volleyball
Our members played baseball at our 30th reunion in 1979. This time it is volleyball. The club’s volleyball courts are available to us so bring your shorts, sport shoes, etc. if you wish to play. Perhaps we can get some challenge matches going, e.g. Alpha vs. Omega chapters, etc. There are showers for afterwards.
4. Dinner
A sit-down dinner is planned for 6 p.m. that day. We will proceed to TAPS, a new nearby brew pub located at 4680 Queen Street, Niagara Falls (near Victoria).
TAPS has a broad range of reasonably priced menu items along with 8 variations of beer and ale which are freshly brewed onsite and Ontario wines. There will be live music and a tour of the beer-making process.
TAPS has an outdoor patio. If the weather is particularly nice, they can seat us outside.
Everyone (members, spouses, partners, sons, daughters, parents, friends, etc.) is welcome to join in for dinner. Each is to pay for their own food and drinks. Separate cheques will be provided. Those who wish to can return afterwards to the Badminton Club.
5. Accommodations
From initial ticket sales and communications, we realize that members will be coming in from all over North America for this reunion and will need places to stay over the weekend. A list of available accommodations, including hotels and B&Bs etc. run by members, is being prepared and will be posted soon.
How to Order Tickets
We hope that you will be joining us on September 26. You can purchase your ticket(s) by the following ways:
1. Mail your cheque for $20 a ticket to Harry Burkman at Suite 2810, P.O. 129, 1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario M5X 1A4 (cheques made payable to him); or
2. E-mailing your payment to Harry Burkman at hburkman@burkman.com . Your confirmation question should be Name of Fraternity / Answer = AlphaOmega. (AlphaOmega should be one word.)
We are working on keeping our members’ database current and obtaining additional information. With your payment or e-mail message, please include your street address, phone numbers and e-mail address so that we can keep in touch with you going forward.
Tickets will be sent electronically before the reunion to those with e-mail addresses or mailed to those without e-mail addresses.
Database
Doug Bowering has been building the fraternity's most valuable resource, its membership list, and keeping it current for many years. Doug is constantly updating the list of our members and their contact information and making it available to all of us.
As a resource to be able to target more direct communication with our members, we are hoping to further identify the chapters of the individual members and the years in which they were most active. It would be great if there were separate contact lists for the guys in each of the chapters.
Should you wish to assist in this project, and we encourage you to do so, please let Doug know. He can be contacted at: dougb@thebowerings.com Doug can forward to you an Excel spreadsheet of the members so that you can add additional information to identify the chapters of those whom you know and their active years with the fraternity. When you have done this, you can return it to him.
Your Ideas Please
Guys, this event is about you and your friends from years gone by. The planning thus far reflects the intial thoughts of a reasonably small group of guys. We do not presuppose that we know what is of most interest to you and what would work best. You may have much better ideas and refinements for our reunion day and we encourage you to make your suggestions and input. Please help us make this a better event for everyone. You can post your comments below for all to see or send them to Frank Healey at abusash.healey@gmail.com .
Further details to follow.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, September 26.
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