HS 10 year Reunion

[coll214]

So for some ungodly reason, its befallen on me to plan/organize my 10 year HS reunion after two failed attempts thanks to one very controlling classmate from OOS dropping the ball. yikes. If you'd told me i'd be doing this 10 years ago, i would've told you you're outta your cotton picking mind :p !!

My question is those of you that went to yours, did you have any kind of raffles and what kind were they. We were thinking of doing a door prize, and maybe whose travelled the farthest (not many as this was VERY last minute), and maybe the shortest? But after that i have no clue. We don't want any q's that may be left to interpretation or have 19 ppl w/ the correct answer....

[meatwad]

Mines this week I think. I'm not going but it was funny to notice that the list of people is all stoners and preppies.

[coll214]

LOL, we're gonna have a few of those as well :p. Though at my school alot of the stoners were also the preppies. I'm slightly worried it'll be a sausagefest b/c all the girls are still too bitter about HS :rolleyes:

[meatwad]

LOL, we're gonna have a few of those as well :p. Though at my school alot of the stoners were also the preppies. I'm slightly worried it'll be a sausagefest b/c all the girls are still too bitter about HS :rolleyes:

I thought sausagefest was only bad if you were a guy. lol

[coll214]

Ha, i'm not saying it's an AWFUL thing; but well depends on the dudes ;).

[TinyDancer]

We didn't do any games. . . ours was just super low key. No organized meal, just drinks at a restaurant (most people did dinner on their own) and a DJ.

We tried to do something where everyone filled out stuff about themselves. . . but only 10 people filled it out, and some people were SMASHED when they filled it out.

We had about 1/3 of the class show up. . . not bad, even though it was a small school.

[mahlerssecond]

For my 10 year we rented the pavilion area of our local minor-league baseball park. Included was a ticket to the baseball game, free hot dogs, brats and pop. Beer had to be paid for seperately.
We had about 100 people out of a class of 425 show up. Invitation was by word of mouth, so some people might not of heard about it.

[steph78]

Ha - sounds fun organizing it. Our old class officers all worked together on it (I think there were about eight people who shared the planning together) - they put together quite a fun weekend. We had a two-day reunion - two events with food, plus a showing of about 30 min. of video footage that someone took walking around the halls between classes/at lunch on our last day of school before graduation - it was HILARIOUS to look back and see how we were all dressed, etc. It was such a hit that they ended up burning DVDs of all that video and selling them afterwards for just the cost of the DVD-R and postage to mail it.

We didn't have a raffle, but I think the idea of whoever traveled the longest distance (as determined by google maps, maybe??) is a great one! Have fun (and good luck getting everything all organized!)

[wordsmith]

Ours was very relaxed, very casual, took place the weekend of a big annual summer festival that is already a homecoming event for many (all local HS reunions are held that weekend, because they get the best turnout that way). We rented a hall, had open bar from about 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., fried chicken and pasta served family style at all the tables for about an hour of that, cash bar and DJ/dancing afterward. Some people danced, more hung out on the patio and caught up. We had a few door prizes, and a few contests - I won one by correctly identifying the most common names for boys and girls the year most of us were born, and I got a mix CD the committee had put together of hits from our HS years, with a photo of our old high school, which has since been razed, on the cover. Then, after about 10, the party dispersed and most of us just moved it to a street dance held in conjunction with the festival.

It was a good time. I went to a small, rural consolidated high school in a mainly blue collar/farming community, so people are pretty salt of the earth, not pretentious or ridiculous, overall. We had a pretty decent turnout...probably about 100 of a class of 150 or so. Some of those were spouses, though.

[sondra_finchley]

I didnt go to mine- was held at a local casino in Las Vegas and they had cocktails and some food and a DJ. Low key- some folks were in jeans. From the pictures it was all the girls you would expect to be there and a couple of guys who were in that group in HS and still in Vegas and who still cared enough to attend. The same crowd usually did the pep posters in the halls and were on the dance team. There were so many components to my high school class that it would probably be impossible to organize a decent reunion everyone would want to attend. I doubt I will ever go to one, personally.

It looked like they got a turnout of about 65 out of a total class of 875+ and that was WITH a professional reunion company helping them track everyone down.

I think that you would want to have an event where all groups and all people would feel accepted in attending as somewhere people could meet up again. I like your raffle idea for sure!

[coll214]

It ended up being a great time; was definitely slow and awkward at first, but we managed to get quite a few walk-ins, so all in all maybe 40ish total out of 300+ class. And people from all the little 'cliques' but since it was a small crowd everyone got along. My class, at least in a lot of cases, seems that alot of people who stayed around town all still talk, though they were in completely different circles in HS, which is nice to see. I had multiple people thank me for putting it on and sticking w/ it (this was the 3rd attempt for one), though we bagged most of the 'extra' ideas.

[winneythepooh7]

Glad it went well!

Mine kinda sucked because it was still super cliquey. I ended up leaving right after dinner.

They did a giveaway for the person who travelled the farthest, and also to the person who changed the most.