Vol 12 No 4

Summer 2002
Vol. 12 No. 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Jun/Jul 2002 v12n4

Alum&I
Let professionals do it, Ask the experts, searching for classmates, Gathering of Eagles, high school website features nostalgia, reunions, The Reunion Planner Book and Software Version 4

Scrapbook
The lighthouse brats by Karen Wagner Scanlon
Classy reunion music, friends reunion, under the Big Top, town homecomings, travel stuff
Branch Office Partnership with Archives and Historical Societies by Penny Cliff
How removed are your cousins? Do a random act of kindness! Cone Family Reunion

MasterPlan Sweet Success: a honey of a reunion in Beetown by Mary Thiele Fobian
Lunafest by César Garza

RSVP
Camping KOA caters to reunions by Harvey Meyer
Reunion camping resources and ideas

REUNION VENUES & FEATURES
CVBs: Your new best friends by Jacky Runice
Over there: Two towns that cherish veterans by Jacky Runice
Food Catering. Is it right for your reunion? by Karen Luna Ray
Cemeteries Finding the living in the cemetery by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Musings from “cemetery crawlers”
Reunions at burial ground entwine family, state history by Marcia Schnedler

Reunions with ethnic flavors
Telling tales by Frederick Borjes
Carbis Gathering in Cornwall by John C. Carbis
A kissin’ cousins reunion by Helen M. Friese,
Benrud Norwegian celebration

MRN
Reunion of the East Bronx 52-20 Club by Howard Sachs, PhD, MD
Veterans web site, USS Callaway, Taps, Mustangs, 550th Signal Company, 516th follow up, 50th Airlift anniversary

Reunion Resources A directory of reunion-friendly places, services, vendors and products

On the cover
Lily Wallman enjoys herself at the 2001 Knapp/Napp Reunion in Beetown, Wisconsin.

Masthead


Publisher Jeffrey P. Wallman
Editor in chief Edith Wagner
Associate Editor Mary Thiele Fobian
Travel Editor Jacky Runice
Production Art Director Jennifer Rueth
Sales Lynn Ryan, Senior Account Manager
Marion Liston, Senior Account Manager
Editorial Assistant Adam Rose
Operations Manager Karla Lavin
Administrative Staff
Jean Salzer

Contributors
Julie Backus
Frederick C. Boyles
John C. Carbis
Fran Carlson
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, CG
Penny Cliff
Chuck Ecker
Helen M Friese
César Garza
Beth Gay
T.D. Jorgensen
Helen Kitchen Branson
Darla Methey
Harvey Meyer
Flora/Tommi O’Hagan
Bob O’Kon
Ray Py
Karen Luna Ray
Carol Riley
Howard Sachs, PhD, MD
Karen Wagner Scanlon
Marcia Schnedler
Nancy Shirey
Denise Silva
Joseph W. Smith
Jacky Utley
Ann Warnock
Joan Waters
Bill Williams