We had our survey out there this month and have collected a lot of good planning information.
We are now a year out from REUNION 50!
Here’s what you have told us so far:
148 classmates have completed the survey (and we’re looking for more – the link is on our Facebook page and in Reunion mailings but we’ll close it 10/25). In addition we have received some responses directly to our email account.
122 classmates have said yes they are coming and 42 plan on bringing a guest, so that’s 164.
Another 30 people have indicated “Maybe” and if they do come they would bring 12 more guests.
Our advisor, Gary Reece, and his wife Mary have indicated they will come. We can’t locate Ms. Braunstein.
I will post the comments and suggestions culled from the survey here when the survey is closed. We may very well use another survey later to help finalize some items as we get closer to our proposed October 2021 date.
Our Facebook class group has lots of photos from classmates, some of which will be collected o this site, but please join in if you use Facebook. (It’s not as scary as the media might make you believe.)
Of course, the group to join and follow on Facebook is our own Class of 1971 group. There are lots of photos, updates and posts there focusing on our class. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ihs1971/
But there are other Irvington groups to follow. These are ones I know of currently. (Quality varies) Have you found other groups, or sites outside of Facebook, about the schools and our hometown? If so, leave us a comment here and we will add it to the list.
If you are part of the IHS Class of 1971 and discovered this site – Welcome! Although the reunion committee has been emailing classmates that we have current address for, and posting in our Facebook group, that doesn’t include all of our class. This website will collect all the updates on organizing our 50th reunion.
This is the latest email update:
We hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend. It’s been a little over 2 weeks since our first communication and we wanted to give everybody an update. The good news is our Reunion team has grown. John Manning has agreed to sign up for Reunion duty again and will coordinate the financial aspects of the reunion. Ken Ronkowitz has volunteered to be our “Social Media Techie” and webmaster. Rhonda Goldberger and Tom Trokan have agreed to assist with the event planning. Karen Long Rohe, Terry Masucci and Karen Mericle Suter have also agreed to assist as needed.
Concerning this website: What suggestions do you have for website content to make it useful and relevant and a site that you will want to periodically check? Do any of you have old photos from our IHS years that you would like to post for all to enjoy? You can subscribe to the blog and get notified by email whenever new content is added.
When we sent out our first communication we asked for your help. How did you do? Do you have any additional email addresses for us or updates to your information? We have gotten a few updates and new email addresses (and unfortunately were notified of a few additional classmates who passed) however we still only have email addresses for about 36% of the living classmates 205 out of 570. At this stage of the planning this is where we need your help the most. There are quite a few classmates who are on Facebook and are Facebook friends with some of you and yet we don’t have any email contact information for them. Please take the time to go over the list of people where we don’t have any email addresses and private message them to try and get us their info. Or, try giving them a call to reconnect if they have a valid phone number listed. Be a super sleuth and find those Class of ’71 grads. Make this a challenge and see who can get us the most missing email addresses – we can report who is the most successful on the website.
We only have one 50-year reunion, so we want to make sure we get this right. Our goal is to make this a fantastic get together – one that everyone will be talking about for a long time to come. Please use the contact form on this website or the class Gmail account, or email directly to ihsclassof1971@gmail.com to stay in touch with the Reunion Team.
Irvington High School Class of 1971 