Reunion data and location

The date and location of our reunion has been confirmed. Please plan on attending the UCHS Class of 1990 Reunion on July 31, 2010, at the Catamaran Hotel next summer. More details regarding tickets and hotel accomodations to follow.

The company coordinating our reunion, Reunion Specialists, has created a webpage for our class. Please take a moment to visit it to update your information. The site is: http://www.reunion-specialists.com/reunion.php?reunion=444

We have provided the company with all the information the committee has compiled, but it would be helpful if you could also update your information on their database, as well, to ensure you receive all updates via email and snail mail.

Missing UCHS 1990 Alumni

We are still in search of MANY UCHS 1990 Alumni for next summer’s twenty year reunion. Please check below to see the list of MIA Alumni. ANY information is valuable; we’d appreciate married names, email, phone numbers, and/or addresses of alumni you may know about or the whereabouts of. Please contact one of the two contributors of this blog, Robyn or Tracy, with your information.

Thanks, Tracy Jones McCabe

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Eric Abutin, Hisae Adachi, Rosalinda Aguirre, Carla Aldrete, Alma Amposta, Homan Anvari, Javier Atacho, Philip Baddour, Vincent Bafetti, Cyrus Bagheri, Racheal Bailey, James Ball, Forooza Baradar, Javier Barajas, John Barr, Melinda Bates, J.B. Benefield, Dana Bergeron, Yolanda Berry, Yuri Bohlen, Aaron Bowman, Gina Brackman, Thomas Braley, Anthony Brooks, Charles Brown, Ted Buchler, Travis Buckmaster, Khiem Bui, Neville Burnstein, Ronnie Bushore, Abigail Camp, Frank Cannon, Steven Cannon, Armando Cardozo, Jim Carroll, Mary Carter, Twyonia Carter, Michelle Castañeda, Cari Castle, Chicca Castoldi, Mary Rose Castro, Gaby Chavez, Angela Cheluis, Steve Chew, Kyung Cho, Cheryl Cohan, Larry Cook, Georgette Copes, Kenneth Cruzado, Edward Curley, Kyle Danielson, Renee DelaCruz, Christopher Diaz, Ron Diaz, Tetsuo Douglas, Wendy Downs

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Tamika Edwards, Jennifer Elie, Roy Enrile, Kevin Fahey, Jose Farrales, Tonya Feighan, Catherine Ferguson, Cassandra Fink, Steven Fisher, Tajia Freisinger, Gerald Gangstad, Nicholas Gannon, Melanie Garcia, Pablo Garcia, Renee Garcia, Jennifer Gardner, Genevieve Garratt, Rebecca Garretson, Jeremiah Gay, Travis Gentner, John Getros, Joshua Gibbard, Regina Giesting, Julie Giordano, Marc Giordano, Amit Goldberg, Arlene Green, Adam Greenberg, Courtney Griffin, Casey Gromley, Christopher Haap, J.T. Hadnot, Ziv Halevy, Kevin Hall, Todd Hammerman, Christoffer Hansen, Melissa Harrinton, Wesley Haworth, Francisco Herrera, Ilana Herz, Paul Herz, Jennifer Hoffman, Diedra Holland, Kris Holm, Rusty Holzbaur, Darren Hopkins, Christopher Hudzik, Tami Hulsey, Amy Hurst, Kris Ingram, Amy Jacobson, Aimee Jensen, Roland Jones, Esther Jumamil

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Cullen Ka, Kevin Kahler, Keith Kaneko, Sean Kerr, Woon Kim, Teresa King, Mark Korch, Jason Kron, Cindy Lam, Christina Liang, Adina Lichtszajn, Wendy Lippe, Mauricio Lomelin, Jennifer Long, Veronica Lopez, Rui Luo, Jason Marcelino, Eric Marino, Matthew Marlowe, Konane Martinez, Dawn Marusov, Milani Mateo, Payton McMullen Jr., Chad Mealey, Ofra Meirovitch, Carlos Mercado, Tana Mervis, Kiarr Miller, Chris Minchberg, Dino Miragliotta, Mariann Misleh, Victoria Mitchel, Kathy Mora, Tanya Morlett, Orit Nahamias, Jack Nakashima, Victoria Nayak, Marston Neal, Tunika Neal, Thi Nguyen, Jo Ann Noble, Chris Obine, Felton Ollison, Megan O'Malley, Michael Orenich, Michelle Ouellette, Carlos Pacheco, Mark Padrels, Jason Palkovic, Spring Pankratz, Christosen Panza, Julia Park, Kevin Partin, Jason Paulino, Amy Pazornik, Christianne Peckham, Lareina Pedriguez, Stanley Peng, William Perrine, Rachel Phillips Lynda Picone, Jason Pogrell, Jennie Pyles

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Virginia Ramos, William Ratchford, Jeff Reese, Eric Revak, Elissa Rich, Princess Riley, Anthony Roberts, Asher Robinson, Jasen Rodriguez, Nicole Rogers, Robert Romito, Tony Rotterman, Brian Rutledge, Matt Ryan, Leah Salo, Leonel Sanchez, Kevin Sarwinski, Jane Sato, Dawn Schmalen, Britta Seidl, Andrea Senour, Farshad Shams, Chris Shankland, Stephen Shaw, Mark Shell, Joshua Shiller, Donald Shrader, Kelly Shrum, Mark Sick, Cameron Smay, Shannon Smith, Tessie Solis, Sean Soriano, Tobin Stearns, Karen Stender Myeshia Stewart, Tisha Stewart, Kristen Stickles, Craig Sturak, Laura Sturm, Greg Stutzer, Prabhakar Sundararaman, Myeshea Sutton, Lewin Swartz, Diriki Taylor, Bee Thao, Robert Thomas, Stephen Thomas, Tina Thomas, George Tolentino, Hermogenes Torres, Antal Toth, Anh Tran, Hiep, Tran, Thao Tran, Phi Trinh, Tuan Trin, Michael Upton, Troy Venzon, Monique Washinton, Deshon White, John White, Chris Whitehead, Chris Williams, Georgina Wilsenach, Neice Wilson

6/7/2009 Update

This afternoon Jenni, Abi and I met with Lynn, the owner of Reunion Specialists (http://www.reunion-specialists.com/) at the Catamaran and signed an agreement with her to have RS organize our reunion. She was a lovely, helpful, and very knowledgeable lady. Thanks to Abi for arranging the meeting and getting us all there.

We discussed our various site options in detail, and came up with our four final frontrunners. Thanks again to Jenni for getting our initial list together. Key points we discussed during the meeting included:

1. The reality of the situation is that only between 20-33% of a class buys tickets to a reunion, and with a class size of 373 for 1990 (based on the yearbook, not graduation, more on that in a sec), we’re looking for a smaller room so our ticket prices don’t go through the roof.
2. We want this event to be affordable. Not just the ticket price for the site and event room, but the hotel rooms, parking, drinks were all considered as a price issue.
3. Quality and quantity of food for what you pay for was considered.
4. It was agreed that we didn’t want the biggest room in the place as our venue in order to encourage mingling. We don’t want to be crowded, but also we considered important picking a space that wasn’t so large that people break off into cliques and stay put.
5. Finally, we considered locale in terms of what was requested on the survey but also what was available in the surrounding areas.

Lynn will be looking into this list of sites this week and getting back to me details about availability, hotel rates, etc. The list we’re now investigating includes:

1. Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine (http://lajolla.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp): specifically, the Barcino Grill is able to be rented out for a group our size since all of their meeting rooms are too big. One of the requests from the survey was to consider a UC venue.
2. Karl Strauss in Sorrento Mesa (http://www.karlstrauss.com/PAGES/Eats/SorrentoMesa.html): Lynn and Abi have both had events there, say it’s very lovely at night. Hotel rooms nearby will be very affordable as they cater to a M-F business crowd.
3. Harborview Ballroom beneath Ruth’s Chris on Harbor Drive (http://www.holidayinn.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/SANBY/event-facilities?start=1): a downtown venue that has free parking and affordable room rates.
4. The Catamaran (http://www.catamaranresort.com/): where we met today, a beach/bayside option for more of a family event feel.

Another agreement we made with Lynn per her “contract” was not to promote a Friday Night Icebreaker Event sponsored by the reunion committee; this has been mulled over at previous meetings. When we asked Lynn to explain the reasoning behind this it made sense to us: what you’re really paying for with that ticket Saturday night is the surprise/first sight of someone you haven’t seen in a long time. When we promote a free event prior to the reunion, it lowers the value of that initial meeting. The only argument I can see holding water is for those who really want to mingle with people who belong to other classes. We know people will be getting together on Friday night, but it will probably be in smaller groups for dinner and such. Coordinating a large meeting of people attending the reunion the night prior to the reunion deflates the value of Saturday night’s event and lowers attendance. We can discuss this at our next meeting in more detail.

Our next and most immediate task is getting Lynn as much information about our class to Reunion Specialists so they can start hunting classmates down. I’ve listed below the items we’ve got to get a jump on next:

1. Our class database. I believe Ed had started this. Eddy, what’s the status?
2. We need a commencement program from our graduation to get an exact list of UCHS ’90 alumni, anyone got one they can send to Lynn?
3. Does anyone know how Debbie organized our 10 year in terms of tracking down classmates?
4. Does anyone happen to have a 10 year reunion booklet? Was there one? It might have contact info, married names, etc...

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, June 28 to pick our site. I’m thinking we’ll either have this meeting at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine or Harborview Ballroom beneath Ruth’s Chris on Harbor Drive since Karl Strauss is closed on the weekends. I’ll be in touch.

4/5/09 Reunion Committee Meeting

Hi everyone,

So here’s the rundown on what was accomplished Sunday 4/5. Thanks to Christine, Abi, Jenni, and Eddy for meeting me there.

1. We decided to go with Abi’s reunion company, Reunion Specialist (http://www.reunion-specialists.com/). We haven’t signed a contract yet, and will do so at the next meeting when they meet us at our chosen site and field some additional questions we have.
2. We went over the survey results. The one thing I think we garnered from this that will impact our planning is picking a venue possibly in UC or La Jolla. We also decided that based on the number of people who plan on bringing their families, a site like Park Manor may still be an option as the “family friendly” idea may not be essential. However, this is only 40 people responding, so……
3. In regards as to whether to allow other alumni classes to attend the reunion, the committee decided to keep the Saturday night reunion limited to only Class of 1990 UCHS alumni, but encourage friends from other classes we’d like to connect with to attend the Friday night icebreaker event as well as the Sunday family picnic event.
4. Jenni has offered to take on the job of Venue Coordinator by checking out some sites. She’s going to look through the Reunion Specialist website and, taking a cue from the survey results, pick her top 5 sites we should consider. Jenni said she’s on spring break, so she has nothing better to do ;) Anyway, thanks to Jenni, who will be getting out a list to us in the next few weeks. From that list, we’ll pick a place for our next meeting.
5. One of the problems we will run into by hiring this company is their policy about not helping with advertising the icebreaker, which means they probably won’t share their alumni info with us. This poses a problem in terms of being able to get the Friday and Sunday info out to everyone (this is one of the issues we want to chat about before signing the contract). Eddy is mostly done with the spreadsheet of our class members, and is going to route it around to everyone on the committee for us to fill in emails and info of class members we know. After that, we’re hoping Tami can use her contacts and Eddy can use his online classmates.com status to find the rest.
6. Christine has offered to make the slideshow for Saturday night. We’re thinking we’ll have people email her pics, yet another reason why we need emails….and a blog…..
7. We discussed what jobs we need filled for the committee and assigned them to the appropriate people:

• Co-Chairs: Tracy & Abi
• Venue Coordinator: Jenni
• Alumni Search Coordinators: Eddy and Tami
• Slideshow Coordinator: Christine
• Friday Night Icebreaker Coordinator: Rachel
• Saturday Golf Event Coordinator: John
• Blog Coordinator: Robyn
  
  Jobs that still need to be filled:
• Sunday Family Picnic Coordinators:
• Alumni Book Coordinator: Not sure if we want to use the one provided by RS. If Christine is collecting pics already, maybe this person could make an insert or booklet with these photos as well?
• Raffle Coordinator: We need someone to solicit & collect prizes, and coordinate a raffle Friday night. This money can be used for additional costs like the booklet or/and a memorial table and/or a jumpy for kids to use at Sunday’s picnic.
  

I think I’ve covered everything. If you have any questions or comments, please let us all know. Our next meeting will be in May and we’ll sign the contract and be off.

Take care, Tracy

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