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==The following is most of the information that we have already posted on FaceBook. I hope that by now you have viewed the Common Craft video explaining what a Wiki is. If you got my email but could see the video, click on the link at the bottom of the page. I realize it was small an you might have missed it.==

This is new to me too so we will explore and learn together. Jackie


Post #1[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 16, 2009 at 11:51pm Let's open for discussion the possibility of a class reunion. We graduated 45 years ago. There's interest in a 50th class reunion which is still five years away (as noted in Bill's post, Caroline's request for a reunion, and my own interest). What are your thoughts? If you keep in touch with classmates who are not yet on FB, please ask their opinion also.

Post #2You wrote on June 17, 2009 at 9:03pm As I have said before in another post I would love to get something going for the 50th. I have heard after the fact that there have been other reunions but I only knew and went to the 10th. I would like to see one put together for the big one.[|Reply to Your Post][|Delete Post] Post #3[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 17, 2009 at 10:00pm Great! Bill has a lot of great suggestions, so I vote he chair a committee, unless there is someone back in Jersey who wants to co-chair with Bill. A lot of us are out-of-state, but I definitely want to be on the committee. We're thinking a committee of six. Anyone interested in serving on the committee to plan our 50th reunion in 2014??? OUCH! Any suggestions?

Jackie, I attended our 25th, but had never heard of any others. Someone told me there was a joint reunion at one point, which our class was a part of, but I knew nothing about it. [|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #4[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 17, 2009 at 10:08pm Val would like to serve on the committee also![|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #5[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 18, 2009 at 9:19am Caroliine would also like to serve on the committee![|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #6[|Joan Hurley Phillips] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 18, 2009 at 7:29pm Yes there was a joint reunion with would you believe the class of "65. And like when we were in school after fighting for all the specials for seniors they screwed them up, the reunion was mostly about them.[|Reply to Joan][|Report] Post #7[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 18, 2009 at 7:44pm Louise and all...I would be honored to chair a commitee, but I only want to assist on the overall Chair of the Reunion...I am of the belief that I am too far away and have so few contacts in the area, that I would not be effective enough. Whomsoever chooses or is chosen to be the overall chair, I will be glad to assist in any possible way. Having organized many racing event and related functions, I have a gazillion ideas which have worked for me and for others. But again, I think I am too far away to do all of the legwork and local calling that a chair must do. Thank you all for your support Go BTHS-'64![|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #8[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 19, 2009 at 12:57am I agree, Bill. Anyone local willing to chair the committee???[|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #9[|Claudia Barrett Mendola] (Ocala, FL) wrote on June 19, 2009 at 9:06am I went to the 25th. I had heard of the mixed class reunion. Don't know anyone who went. We live in Ocala, Florida. We went up for the 25th. It was around Thanksgiving I believe. At that time people still went home for the holidays. Hope something can be worked out. It would be alot of fun. Who would of ever thought we would be talking about a 50th high school reunion....we are way to young at heart for that...LOL Good luck whoever takes this on. [|Reply to Claudia][|Report] Post #10 reply[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 19, 2009 at 2:07pm Claudia, did you keep the class book they gave us at the 25th? I'm still looking for mine (I know I have it somewhere amongst old photos). Perhaps we can at least find classmates through that to inquire whether they'd like to join us for a 50th reunion! [|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #11 reply[|Claudia Barrett Mendola] (Ocala, FL) replied to [|Louise's post] on June 19, 2009 at 4:15pm Yes, Louise, I do still have that book they gave us. I was looking through it the other day. Alot of the people may still live at those addresses, I do. Let me know what you would like me to do. I don't have a scanner and am not very savvy with most things on the computer. But Tony is very proficient, so he could help. I tried alot of the names on Facebook but came up empty. I kept that book in my yearbook. Lucky for us. [|Reply to Claudia][|Report] Post #12 reply[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) replied to [|Claudia's post] on June 19, 2009 at 8:21pm That is fantastic,Claudia. If everyone on our class page would post a list of all the classmates they keep in touch with (other than on Facebook), we can pass the message on to those classmates, who can pass it along to the classmates they keep in touch with. AND we can tell all of them about our class page here on Facebook. We should also keep track of who we have contacted, to date. I think there's about 75+ from our class on Classmates. We can even post something there. I haven't renewed my GOLD membership there yet, but we can get that done also or just send our Classmate classmates a message about our page here!! Are you on Classmates?

Perhaps you (with Tony's help) and maybe some of our committee can even check those same classmates who are in the reunion book against Switchboard or Smartpages white pages. Maybe we can come up with better addresses or phone numbers than are listed in your book.

I have passed the information about our Reunion and our class page to:

Nancy Haraburda, Holly Jacob, Darlene Cole, JoAnn Zoccolillo, and Suzanne Tompkins.

I'll start a new topic where we can post names of classmates already contacted. We can all add from there. [|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #13 reply[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 19, 2009 at 8:49pm That is a wonderful Idea... I have also started a database and created an email address, where classmates can forward their name, address, contact number and of course email address. It will give us a bulk email facility and we will be able to faster and more efficiently expedite immediate communications regarding info, prices, update, etc.

Plus, It will provide an immediate database for all of the committee!

BTHS.64.Reunion.50@gmail.c  om[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #14[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 19, 2009 at 10:30pm I'm going to make up a list of our graduating class and will send that to you, Bill, to add to the database. We're impressed![|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #15[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 19, 2009 at 10:33pm THANK YOU...I JUST HOPE THAT IN ENTIRETY i WILL MEET UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS! We need to get that email address out and spread the word.[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #16<span class="author_header">[|Claudia Barrett Mendola] (Ocala, FL) replied to [|Louise's post] on June 20, 2009 at 9:05am Tony is going to scan the reunion book and make a file and then I will send it on to you. He will try and do it tomorrow. He works six days a week. I am not to good at that, but am trying to learn. Tony also suggested that maybe, being how everyone lives mostly out of state now, a cruise would be a good idea. Just a thought. We all have to travel to get there, may be fun. I never did Classmates. The people who did the 25th--chaired it--were Maysie DeBlock, Diane Ballman, Andrea Daniels, and Bonnie Tromsdorf. The company was titledReunion Time, PO Box 1338, Eatontown, N.J. 07724 201 758-0222. Now probably none of that info is any good now. But you may be able to search on Google for info. I am only in touch with Betty Ann Morris and Ethel Vizard, mostly. [|Reply to Claudia][|Report] Post #17<span class="author_header">[|Valerie Krohel Pullen] (South Jersey, NJ) wrote on June 20, 2009 at 11:37am Great job Claudia, Louise, and Bill![|Reply to Valerie][|Report] Post #18<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 20, 2009 at 6:01pm Ye gods....I never even contemplated the possibility of a cruise. I think that is a fantastic idea. The 3-day cruises out of Miami are very reasonable, and we would not greatly be restricted by cold weather. And the food, music, and other activities are included. Plus, I'm sure if we book as a group, the cruise line world do something special for us! What would be the greatest problem is that many folks of our youg age have become very sensitive to motion sickiness...but I still think it is a great IDEA...plus, if we have enough bookings, I'm sure we can get some kind of reduced rate! Not outting the cart before the horse, we have to get a heck of lot more registrations to the email address before we can even strat to think of that. REMEMBER TO REGISTER BTHS.64.Reunion.50@gmail.c <span class="word_break"> om Thank you[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #19<span class="author_header">[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 20, 2009 at 6:12pm Great suggestion. Let's keep the possibilities rolling in. We have to figure out how many of our classmates we can locate AND who would love to participate.

[|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #20<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 20, 2009 at 8:30pm Come on Guys and Gals...to date I have only had 1...repeat 1 response to the email site....

BTHS.64.Reunion.50@gmail.c <span class="word_break"> om[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #21<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 20, 2009 at 10:29pm I took the Class List and did a sort and list and now have a single line list of all of the names of the class. Still waiting for folks to respond to the email addy![|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #22<span class="author_header">[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 20, 2009 at 11:25pm Craig Lampa would like to be on the reunion committee also.

[|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #23<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 21, 2009 at 9:40am Glad to have him aboard.he was always a go-getter[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #24<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 21, 2009 at 5:22pm If anyone else on the committee needs the 25th reunion book, please let me know at my email addy and I will send you the PDF file. In case you did not know A PDF is a Portable Document File and is read by Adobe Reader which is on most computers as standard and freely downloadable from Adobe.com[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #25<span class="author_header">[|Louise Wojciechowski-Burnstad] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 21, 2009 at 9:32pm And that's why you're our leader, oh committee chairperson. [|Reply to Louise][|Report] Post #26<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 22, 2009 at 5:02pm Don't start throwing the hudos, just yet. Let's get to the Reunion, and then if you're still happy, I will take all the praise you can give...and share all of it with every member of the committee...because they will be doing thier share![|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #27<span class="author_header">[|JoAnn Zoccolillo] replied to [|Bill's post] on June 26, 2009 at 7:55pm That sounds like a great plan. I am ready to follow...[|Reply to JoAnn][|Report] Post #28<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 26, 2009 at 8:57pm Well...let';s get the ball rollin....Jackie and I are going to meet soon...let's make it a threesome?[|Reply to Bill][|Report] Post #29<span class="author_header">[|Garrett N Wagner Sr] (Tampa Bay, FL) wrote on June 26, 2009 at 10:43pm Bill in one of your earlier posts you mentioned yoy were to far away, dang i think 80% of our class lve in FL. There is enough space for me to list the ones i know about.Just in your area there have to be at least a dozen or more with more in the Tampa area. I will help where I can. [|Reply to Garrett][|Report] Post #30<span class="author_header">[|Bill Novitch] (Jersey Shore, NJ) wrote on June 27, 2009 at 7:59pm Gary...any contact info you can get to me is very much appreciated. It looks like we are going to have a cohesively working committee and lots of assistance from our other classmates. I know it's a long ways off, but if we let time slide by, we may not be able to at least communicate with every one. Thanx for any assistance you can render. BTW...PLEASE ask everyone to send their contact info to our database at BTHS.64.Reunion.50@gmail.c <span class="word_break"> om

"I have just sent an email to the committee members with a "proposed" press release. I was concise and to the point...something the press will rip apart if you don't adhere to it! PLEASE...suggestions are apprecated...no big heads here, just a common goal!"

BRICK TOWN, NJ. (DATE)

BTHS '64 TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS

The Brick Township High School Class of 1964 has begun to plan and organize a 50th Reunion Celebration.

With the passing of 45 years, the classmates have become scattered throughout the United States and foreign countries. The Reunion Committee is looking to open a line of communication with all of its classmates, regardless of their desire to attend or not.

Chairperson Bill Novitch stated, "The committee knows it is quite a while away, but we need to establish a database for contact, and all of this time will be needed to accomplish the task."

"We haven't started to plan the event yet, because establishing the contacts is so monumental," added co-chair Louise Wojceichowski-Burnstad.

1964 classmates are urged to send their contact information to BTHS.64.Reunion.50@gmail.com.

If classmates are Facebook users, they may also keep updated at Class of '64 ~ Brick Township High School.