20-Year Class Reunion
Meeting

Date: August 24, 2008
Time: 3 pm
Place: Fatz Café (Camden, SC)
Attendees: Patti Haun, Michelle Long, William Sumpter, Hester McLeod, Sharon Gordon, Angela Dennis, Bryant Wiley and Von Osborne

Topic: Food, entertainment, fundraisers and activities for the 20-year reunion.

Friday July 17th – Drop-in at Hillcrest High School with light hors d’oeuvres provided by the committee. It will be held from 6pm to 8pm. We will have the movie playing in the background as we socialize with each other. William will check the dates with the school district and see if they will allow us to use their projector and screen.

Saturday July 18th – Barbeque to be held at Shaw AFB from 11 am – 4 pm. Menu: hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken, ribs and pork chops, baked beans, potato salad, dirty rice, corn-on-the-cob and pasta salad, variety of drinks. I will check with Lance to see if Pepsi would be willing to donate the drinks. The committee will prepare food and the RSVP invitations will include verbiage for attendants to bring a covered dish as well.

Banquet – we are still looking into the best place to have this. Catchall Lodge will cost $450 plus catering fees (Shawn Singleton’s mom). Sharon is checking the price to have the banquet at the NCO club again. We will discuss at the next meeting and finalize the location for this event. Howard Austin (Howie) has agreed to DJ the event for $350 from 9pm – 2 am. This was the most affordable price, which is half of what he normally charges for something like this. Thanks for the discount Howie! J

Sunday July 19th – We will attend High Hills AME church under the direction of guest pastor our very own Shawn Singleton in the flesh! We will conclude the weekend event with dinner at Ryan’s in Sumter.

Tentative Fee Schedule:
$40 per single or $60 per family for admittance to all events. There will be NO price reductions if you can’t attend all activities. THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON THE ITEMS INCLUDED SUCH COMMORATIVE DVD’S AND T-SHIRTS.

THEME: HILLCREST CLASS OF 89
STILL GOING (a picture of the Energizer bunny with a tiger’s head (wildcat). Sharon is working on a demo shirt and designs for viewing before finalization. Suggestion is to include the names of our graduating class on the back. Sharon let us know how much extra this would be.


Committees needed:
Commemorative DVD to include a tribute to our fallen classmates (bereavement) – this committee will be in charge of memorializing our fallen classmates with flowers, pictures and fondest memories. (Sharon and Michelle will work on this). Please post on the MySpace and the blog created by Michelle, to send pictures (before and after/then and now) and solicit more help.

Videographer: Evans Video (father of the late Sylvester Dawson) The cost of this service is $500, which includes 40 DVD’s. Any additional DVD’s will be a minimum of $9. Orders and money for this will be taken at the banquet. Suggestion: I think the 1st 20 to 30 people (FAITHFUL committee members automatically get one) to send in their money will receive this as a token. Orders and money can be taken during the weekend activities and mailed after the reunion.

Photographer: Nick Jenkins – has agreed to provide this service. At our next meeting we will have a preview of a reunion album and different package prices. He is willing to provide basically what we want. Thanks William!

Fundraisers: Raffle tickets, selling dinners, car wash to begin in March, and agendas (businesses would pay to advertise their service). We need to start cracking on this to generate start-up money.

Things to do:

Von will set up the bank account and tax id information. I need a volunteer that will be listed on the account with me. We will be in charge of all flow of monies. If you purchase something in relation to the reunion please ASK for permission before you do anything to ensure that we will be able to reimburse you.

One the above is set-up, Angie Dennis will set-up a post office box.

The links that have been set up by none other than our very own Michelle (Lee) Long are:
http://hillcrest89reunion.blogspot.com
hillcrest89reunion@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/hillcrestclassof89 Set up by Nikkole Davis


Next meeting will be October 19, 2008 at Fatz Café in Camden at 3pm. This may be subject to change to a location in Columbia. I will let you know at least 2 weeks in advance.

We accomplished a lot at this meeting, now its time to GET TO WORK. Thanks to all that were able to attend and even those who were unable due to prior engagements. I hope to see you all at the above meeting.
.GO WILDCATS!