BULA AGAIN ONE AND ALL!!
Here's to 2011 and our get together....Lots of interest is now being peeked or is it tweeked...from many of the alumnae, and we are so happy to let you know again that the dates have now been set for: 24th July to 31st... 2011.
Sister Genevieve, has been extremely helpful, and has made some suggestions to help us make all of this come together. We appreciate very much her interest which has also touched the students at Waimanu, and extending out here to all of us. Below are some original suggestions from Sister.
"Hello, Valerie,
There is a further development to this idea. There is great interest here. It could be a way of re-vitalizing the alumnae's enthusiasm and inject some new life into them. They are even thinking of creating some souvenirs. I have a new logo you may like to use. It is the awarding winning logo created by one of our junior students to the Fiji Finals flag competition
(2)Hello Valerie,
Greetings!
This is to give you an update on what is happening here! Since you are planning to be in Fiji from 24 - 31 July, we can schedule a tentative programme. This is at a brain storming stage. There are several groups planning for re-unions next year; perhaps they can coincide with this week. One possibility is that each group host a day and be responsible for organising it.
Groups reflecting the years:
50 and 60s can have a day; may be your birthday celebrations can be held on this day
70 and 80 another day
90 and 20 another day
Alumane executive another day
School will host the Emerald Celebration with concert another day
Emerald Island Night on Saturday evening: - to be organised by all
Sunday Pot lunch meal and thanksgiving Mass and farewell
How does this sound? You need to find out which groups are planning to come and this needs to be confirmed by April 2011 at the latest so that we know what we are dealing with and what budget to set. Remember the hall is open for these functions if you so wish."
Valerie: We are going to try to be well organized by April of this year. This way we will know who or where the real interests are, and where we can go with the organizing, setting a budget etc.
In our 'class of 56' group planning, we thought to have a Friday night 'Return to the 50s event' with fifties music and on upwards, and the dress code to be of that era as well...(this was in the first email we sent out.) any suggestions from anyone regarding this idea would be most appreciated.
A detail: Roy Thomas, has graciously agreed to be the MC for this event. He has promised to make sure that Regina will be there, and that added that Regina is very willing to sing a few of her Patsy Kline/Connie Francis numbers!!
Suggested location: The Convention Center at Lami which has two rooms. To utilize the smaller of the two.
The other tentative plan at this stage is: to have a day of possibly, breakfast lunch and dinner for our class of 56. There will be further planning on this as well. We are setting the dates from Sunday 24th -31st July... a week...However there is concern that everyone should be in Suva for the entire week. I know that time will be a concern for everyone. When we finalize the events, each group or person can certainly choose when to attend what?
