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Preston Cook
Fred deserves all the praise he has received. Organizing and operating the Class of 1964 Website takes time, patience and experience, all of which Fred possesses. I am sure Fred's hundreds of hours on the website has curtailed his Harley riding. I also extend my thanks for opening the communication window for all classmates. It is great to read the entries of old friends found, and new ones made. We hope this will continue after the reunion.
As a first time member of the Reunion Comittee (and attending only two meetings due to California residency) there are others on the Committee that should be acknowledged as well.
Many of you may not realize the amount of time and effort expended by the Reunion Committee members over the past 18 months in planning or September 50th reunion. Thousands of hours of donated time have gone into making this our best reunion ever. Meetings, phone calls, emails, mailings, event arrangements, and then more meetings and phone calls.
Pat and Phil Wanzenberg, Co-Chair and Treasurer respectively, have played a critical role with reunion after reunion. Other committee members have each taken on specific tasks to assure each event is coordinated and arranged. Classmate search enlisted some twenty volunteer's volunteers over the past 18 months, making well over 1000 phone calls attempting to locate as many as possible. In the end, in the database of 999 names, 749 were found, including our Deseased list of 127 classmates. Regrettably, we still have 240 names with contact information not yet confirmed.
Special praise goes to Judy Anderson who has been deeply involved in all our reunions. Without Judy, we would not have our 50th year reunion. She is indispensable. Much of Judy's activity during the past year has been working on the 50th year reunion. Planning and executing an event for several hundred people almost becomes a full time job. Rounds of golf lost forever! Judy is the glue holding the Reunion Committee together and the myriad of tasks to complete during all the planning stages.
We should recognize all the classmates who have been involved in both the planning and the seach process. The Runion Committee consists of: Judy Anderson (Co-Chair), Arlene Avery Burke, Janet Bengston Leahy, Sue Blumenfeld Zipkoff, Fred Brostoff (Webmaster), Preston Cook, Kathy Delgety Miehls, Jim Deefield, Jerri Engeln McCabe, Mark Goodman, Jack McCabe, Pauline Noznick Gerstein, Steve Place, Bob Reece, Phoebe Richard Bradford, Pat Richey Wanzenberg (Co-Chair)' Donna Salamon Bree, and Phil Wanzenberg (Treasurer). Other classmates who helped with the Search Process include Jill Applegate Foco, Pam Beall Art, Linda Hayward Niedermeyer, Kathy Hunt Olson, Rose Ann Lind Verheyen, Holly Romans Green, Judi Sheahan Lindgren, Steve Simmonds, Alison (Sunny) Van Swearingen Brown, Tom Wardell and Scott Wiscomb. Countless other classmates provided information to assist in the search.
Staging a reunion is not a simple procees (at one time in my life I was paid a salary to hold similar events). We need to recognize all classmates who helped, even if they are not singled out in my message.
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