Camille Chan
We're thrilled that everyone had a great time reconnecting. You need to know what everyone did. Absolutely everyone on the committee pitched in: Anita, Gerry, Sheila, Mike, Cimberly, Georganne, Judy, Denis, Richard, Helen, Roger, Ron, Carla and George. From the very beginning everyone was searching for 'lost' classmates. Our ACE searchers were Anita and Helen. They spent hours and hours calling and internet searching. Judy helped me with the hotel search and did the invitations and hand addressed them. Ron and I spent many midnight hours working on the website. We knew this would be key to reaching out. Gerry did the gorgeous decorations. Denis did the beautiful name badges and program. He and I are working on the memory book which will be out in a couple months. Richard was our treasurer. Roger was our legal counsel. Terry put on a great program. Ron worked hard on a fantastic oldies audio-visual program. I didn't know 68 years olds could move that fast!
But none of this would have happened if George Z and Willie Tong hadn't had a Westlake reunion because they mourned the absence of an OHS 50-year reunion. After we thought about it, we could not let 50 years go by without a reunion. And thus, was born our 50-year reunion.
But we were late getting started on a project that normally took a year. We only had 3 1/2 months. This was no time to be creative! I went to OHS '62 to see how they had done it. Ben Fong-Torres and Helen Pulver Rosenberg were key to getting our planning off the ground. Without them, we would have had hot dogs in a cafeteria.
I'm glad you all came and had a grand time. Let's not wait so long next time.
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