Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Kara (Mareshie) Taylor, Kim (Mitchell) Dehoyos and Robbie Prince met on September 1st and are currently starting the process of going through the entire class listing alphabetically to notify everyone of the upcoming reunion.

Several locations for the reunion are on the table and are being researched for availability and costs.

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Kara (Mareshie) Taylor, Kim (Mitchell) Dehoyos and Robbie Prince met to review available options for our reunion location, costs, food ... and of course - drinks.

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 has been chosen as the date of our 20 Year Reunion.

The Bellecourt Manor has been chosen for it's central location and beautiful dining facility.

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers has been tasked with securing our reservation and the retrieving overall costs for dinner & drinks.

Kim (Mitchell) Dehoyos has been tasked with securing a D.J. for the evening ...

Robbie Prince and Kara (Mareshie) Taylor will continue the task of tracking down our classmates ...

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Kara (Mareshie) Taylor, and Robbie Prince met on November 6th at Julie's home. Topics covered were the schedule for the evening, how long we have the Bellecourt Manor for, where to go after we are out of time, menu and drink options, review of some video from Denny Tribout, the published alumni book and how well we are doing on researching classmates contact information.

We would like to report that we have been in communication with about 120 of our classmates thus far. "Go Team!!"

Our committee decided to pass on a meeting in December, in respect for our personal schedules revoloving around holidays and family commitments. Our next committee meeting has been set for January 10th, 2009 at Robbie Prince's home.

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Kara (Mareshie) Taylor, Kim (Mitchell) Dehoyos and Robbie Prince met on January 3rd at Robbie's home.

We spent a majority of the day focused on tracking down current mailing addresses for classmates in preparation for mailing out invitations at the end February.

We would like to report that the combination of our research and the incredible response to the website, we have about 240 current addresses of classmates.

Just another 240 to go !!!

Go TEAM !!

We are extremely happy to announce that Melissa (Ernst) Trolinger has volunteered to be a member of the reunion committee. Melissa brings a much needed set of talents to the table in the research department!

Thanks Melissa!!

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Melissa (Ernst) Trolinger, and Robbie Prince met on January 25th at Mariachi's Restaurant in Belleville.

Melissa (Ernst) Trolinger and her husband had traveled from her home in Alabama to attend a family function in Belleville, so we seized the oppurtunity to get together and discuss the reunion questionaire and other related details as well have a few fish bowl sized margaritas.

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Kara (Mareshie) Taylor, and Robbie Prince met on January 29th at Julie's home.

We reviewed the list of class members that we have been able to locate or communicate with... and we are happy to report that we have been able to locate about 380 of our classmates thus far, leaving about 95 (ish) left to locate.

The committee discussed the delivery method of invitations through conventional mail as well as internet delivery. We also discussed the methods of payment for our class members to use for the registration fee to cover the dinner and drink expenses for the evening.

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Robbie Prince and Kim (Mitchell) Dehoyos held a meeting on March 10th at the home of Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers.

The goal of the committee meeting was to finish all the paper invitation processing, and get them to the US Postal Service for delivery.

Julie (Nersesian) Wiegers, Kara (Mareshie) Taylor, Kim (Mitchell) Dehoyos, Melissa (Ernst) Trolinger (via teleconference) and Robbie Prince are scheduled to meet on June 9th, 2009 at Hanley's Restaurant in Fairview Heights to compile tasks and assign responsibility... (and hopefully enjoy a few beers at the same time - except for Kara - who is expecting!)