Some of the comments from the Survey

Well!  We’ve had quite a few comments from the survey that you have been filling out online.  The question was “how to make this reunion the best ever”…or something like that. 

Here’s a selected few responses!  You’ve read our minds!  These are the issues we’ve been thinking about too!!  So how about some further discussion here….leave a comment…we’ll respond.

• I have attended all the reunions for the last 30 years and they have always been great. I look forward especially to seeing the group of architects when we gather normally at Bob Boehleke’s home – also the gathering at Chi Phi is normally something I want to attend. But the Bailey Hall Cornelliana nite is also a must do. I always participate in the run and plan to again.
• Have a stimulating speaker, panel, or some such just for our class, probably on Friday when there is less competition from University events.
• Same as the past reunions.
• Have talks by outstanding faculty on their views of the world or their best experience at Cornell.
• keep reminding classmates until they give you a definite answer, including myself
• don’t overwhelm us with surveys!
• I’ll have to think on that a bit.
• Please be sure there are quiet dorm rooms, esp for those of us who are single. Please be sure activities truly aim at singles’ as well as couples’ and families’ participation and enjoyment–really. Please do not skimp on activities and attitudes focusing on your intellectual, as opposed to entrepreneurial or sports-oriented, classmates—those of us whose social lives centered on the (then-classical-music-only) Music Room, on math and philosophy and physics, or on intellectually stimulating discussions or creative arts, rather than on frats/sororities/”Ivy”sports/partying. Thanks.
• Simply replicate the fabulous arrangements that have always been thought of and carried out for our previous reunions!
• Air conditioned accomodations and meeting locations. Get a great turnout for our 50th.
• Building in lots of visiting time
• Order up good weather!!
• Maintaining our health so we can make it!
• Get everyone eligible to come!
• Be there
• How can I get in touch with housing for the dorms (Kay, Court, Bauer)? How much is the Reunion package?
• You are doing a great job keeping us up to date and interested.Thank-you
• Good accomodations, Good (low) prices, Good speakers, Good food
• Encourage as many as possible to contribute to the 50th class yearbook.
• Air-conditioned housing would be great as would providing most meals.
• Have a golf tournament, and a dixieland band.
• 1. Don’t pack in too many scheduled class activities; allow time for casual gatherings. Seeing friends is the best part. 2. Hoping for good bus schedules and allowance for time to get from one venue to the next.
• Crowd control. All I remember of my husband’s 50th was endlessly standing in endless lines.

You guys rock!!

OK; maybe too much teeny bopper talk.  But we’ve had a great response to the email sent out earlier this week about completing the “Planners/Hopers” survey that’s linked to from the ‘60 Web site.  So far, as of this moment, there are 70 responses.  I’ll post a link to the survey as soon as we hit 100 responses, so you all can see who’s planning to attend.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t responded yet, please do so!  It’s not a commitment; just will help us budget/plan/and do other good things.  You can start right here by clicking on this link. 

Ringtones

Just saw this interesting link on the Cornell website….get a Cornell ringtone for your cell phone!

http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/cornelliana/songs/

Time for Fireworks?

Greetings all….we’ve set up this blog to get your comments on reunion planning for the fiftieth reunion in 2010.   It’ll be here sooner than you know…..just as our 70th birthday—either here or approaching—leaves many of saying, “How’d that happen?”

So let’s start: What makes a good fiftieth reunion?  Is it the setting, the parties, the dinner, how you look, how we look, the chance to sit and chat?  What should we emphasize?