Class Sets Record Participation for 50th Reunion ClassBook

ByWayne Willis

We set a record!   All of the follow-up efforts by the College Captains, the newsletter, the U.Va survey management team, and the Reunion Committee paid off.  Here are the results:

494 unique entries from Classmates

128 remembrances about deceased Classmates

622 TOTAL

This handily beats our 25th Reunion ClassBook … which only had 418 essays.

Many Classmates used the webform  on the Essay’s page, but 102 people used email to make part or all of their submission.  Because uploading the emailed materials requires manual processing, one by one, the Editor In Chief, Carney Mimms says that it will be “several days” before they catch up.  “If someone has a correction or a modest addition, we can still handle it,” said Carney. “Just use the webform to send everything in.”

 

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  1. Congrats and thanks to all ye powers that be for the intense and coordinated herding of all us cats. “The beatings will continue until morale improves!”

    1. Thanks, Steve. Many, many people helped. A couple more came in last week, too. (The door is still open, especially if you want to add a picture or correct anything — or, like Steve Haworth, who just had his 7th grandchild, to add a name.

  2. I hadn’t realized I could send in a remembrance for a deceased classmate in addition to my personal essay. Can I still do so now? I’ll keep it short!

    1. Yes, our trusted Corresponding Secretary, Dan Seiver, personally oversaw all of those remembrances, and I’m sure he’d welcome any additional thoughts, recollections, stories or judgments. Ping him directly at Daniel Seiver, seiverda@miamioh.edu.