Once again Reiko has outdone herself in organizing and facilitating a great reunion!
In addition to everything that normally goes into overseeing and coordinating such an event as this, she produced our updated directory,
labeled your wine bottle and candy, and attractively wrapped your classmate gifts.
When at the very last minute the table center piece plants arrived in
the wrong color, Reiko went elsewhere and found just the perfect plants for our tables.
Way to go, Reikol!!!
Her support staff included:
Gary Fulkerson and Don Cooley who provided:
great help with locating, calling and confirming or otherwise clarifying newly discovered possible contact information.
Beverley (Weeks) Damas who made and contributed:
1) the beautiful prizes;
2) the name tags with school photos for classmates and guest teachers; plus special name tags for guests;
3) the beautiful plant pot cover; 4) and the custom-designed Class of '63 AHS-logo-engraved glass.
(Use your browser's "View" and "Zoom-In" menu-bar tool for a close-up view of the goblet and plant pot cover.)
Additionally, she and her husband provided the background 60's music,
making sure that it provided just the right level of unintrusive ambiance! She and her husband also took and provided the great large group classmate and teacher photo you see here and on the "Who's Who" page..
Michele Lasagna and PaulaJean (Ralston) John-Paul who assisted with:
reunion planning; restaurant research and classmate finding;
financial support in retaining restaurant; assemblying and presenting memorabelia on and in front of three (3) posterboards; and
gift CD music selection; and design and printing of CD case insert (with song list). 
Michele's Nephew who:
compiled and duplicated the CD's and designed and printed the CD label. His DJ Stallion card and information
were included with the CD and we encourage you to remember him if you need a DJ or other related work.
Others who also proactively contributed include:
Lorrene Baum who set up our AHS Class of 1963 Group Site on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/115895408561358/members/
Instructions on how to join are near the bottom of this page. This group site provided many classmates a place to openly discuss before the reunion where they would stay and then arrange an evening dinner after the reunion.
Now this site will be a great place where those who are willing
to be a Facebook member can easily stay in touch with one another and plan simple get-togethers from this point forward.
Charles Call who gifted the class by paying the retainer for the DVD video crew so that those who would like a "Memory" video of our 50th Reunion could purchase one.
If you forgot to take information on how to order the DVD, go to http://j-p-productions.com and contact the videographers there regarding purchasing the video of our reunion.
Don Cooley who during the reunion did a wonderful job of inviting people to share and providing the microphone so all could hear them.
Ernie Fosselius who did a great job warming us up with a healthy balance between thought provoking and laughter evoking reflections of his highschool days;
Victor Dela Cruz who provided a forthright sharing of his experience at Albany High followed by an impressive accounting of how he has spent his time since then, bringing us
up to date with what I suspect were only some of the major highlights of his accomplished professional contributions to society.
Chris Calderhead who made sure that those among us who had been in the armed services were recognized.
And each of the other classmates who were willing to share a bit of themselves, their lives, and their thoughts with us. By doing so you touched the hearts of some, and
sparked a desire among some to hear and know more about the classmates they went to school with.
To those who spoke first, thank you for volunteering at the beginning of the invited sharing and for the manner in which you shared which I suspect
made it easier for those who followed to speak from their heart.
I am hoping that some who spoke will be willing to write up an overview of what they said that can be shared with those who may have been out of the room or (like myself) taking pictures at the time
and not able to hear all that was spoken. Also there were some who could not come that might be touched by such written sharing as well. I will be investigating to see if there is a way that I can post this
material on a password protected site that is not so easily accessible for the "world" to view as is this here. If any of you knowledgeable and wise former Classmates and/or spouses have some good suggestions,
please send them on to me here at ahs1963class@reunionwatch.com or at my yahoo email address. Because others are discussing the desire to hear/read more of this kind of information from classmates, Don Cooley
has offered to help facilitate the collecting of short biographical information, and the conversation regarding that down-the-road "project" can be tracked on our class facebook group page.
