Ever since Kelly and I attended our 20th high school reunion I’d been looking forward to attending another one at our 25th year. With no one else willing to make it happen, I decided to organize it.
This time around we had Facebook to help track down classmates. Using nothing else but Facebook’s search tools and event functionality, I picked homecoming weekend for our reunion and let the Facebook group know.
About 20 of my classmates met up in October and enjoyed a few days of hanging out and catching up. It that a lot? No, but it was an informal, show-up-if-you-want event. While it was only a small fraction of our class of over 600 people, it was a fraction that I really enjoyed reconnecting with. I also enjoyed learning what is involved in planning a reunion.
Heck, I might even be crazy enough to head up the 30th reunion. I’m now comfortable with CRM software like CiviCRM, so I could automate a bunch of the outreach stuff. I’ll have to see how I’m feeling about things in a few years, I guess!