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Folk have been busy with the organisation of our 50-year reunion in August 2017 in Sound Hall, Lerwick, and the format is now in place.
On the Friday evening (25th) there will be a gathering in the small Baila Hall which will be for classmates only, to get re-acquainted. There will be a bar and “nibbles”.
On the Saturday evening (26th) we will have the main event, which will be a buffet dinner for classmates and partners, again in the small Baila Hall. There will be live music.
Dougie and Emmie Dalzeill have done a lot of the organising, and Dougie has opened a bank account with the TSB for collecting deposits against the cost of putting this on. There are fixed costs from the hire of the hall and band, and variable costs from the buffet (per head). We need to ask for for a deposit of £20.00 per head initially for Saturday night only (i.e. £20 for you and £20 for your partner if you will be accompanied), to confirm numbers wishing to attend. For all Friday night attendees, we ask for a deposit of £5.00 per head (add that on if you are coming to both Friday and Saturday). We anticipate that this will cover the bulk of the cost. As yet there is no deadline on this, but we would encourage you to commit as soon as you can if you are coming so that we can get a firm estimate of the numbers to be catered for. NOTE: final Saturday cost is £30 per head so a further £10 each is now required.
We have sent out an email to the updated mailing list with details of the bank account (we don’t want to put it up here in public view) for folk to put money in on line by bank transfer. I guess you can also do this at your bank. When people are putting money in via on line banking on the internet they should use their name as reference ID, that way we should be able to keep track of people who have paid. Please also contact Dougie (details below) to state that you have paid (noting what you plan to attend and what have paid), so that he can check receipt – then confirm back to you by email reply to your email. Also people should identify any allergies that will need to be addressed by the caterers.
People who want to pay by cheque can make it payable to the AEI 61/67 Class Reunion and send them to Dougie to pay into the bank.
The address is:
Douglas Dalzeill
Mains of Cortes
Lonmay
Fraserburgh
Aberdeenshire,
AB43 8UU
(tel:01346 532684, email: mainsofcortes@yahoo.co.uk)
Dougie has done most of the work in tracking folk down and contacting you. There is an active group in Shetland dealing with things, but if you want to put yourself forward to help, contact Winnie (Leask) Kay at email: winniekayboe@gmail.com or Maurice Smith at email: maurice@cumliemedia.co.uk or anybody else that you know is involved.
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Robin Barclay
October 7, 2016