Mary Edwards
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The Fabulous Fiftieth is receding in the distance,
the Fifty-fifth is three years away and you’re missing
those longtime friends and the classmates you discovered for
the first time at the Fiftieth. There’s an answer for that, you
know, and it’s mini-reunions.
Mini-reunion is an elastic term, covering a variety
of gatherings: a luncheon for a visiting classmate;
local classmates exploring a museum or historic house;
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or a more elaborate “destination” mini
with classmates
(and maybe spouses/partners) traveling to spend a few days sightseeing,
dining, talking and reveling in Wellesley friendships. Or maybe just
’58 friends meeting for lunch and conversation. I can help with all
that and would love to. My predecessor in this job, Mel Walsh, put
together some excellent questions and answers about minis. Wanting to
avoid re-inventing the wheel, I asked Mel if we could just re-use her text,
and she said yes. Click
Mini-Reunion
Q & A.
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Minis are anything you want them to be, and it’s my
job to assist you as you arrange yours. That may be as
simple as providing classmates’ email addresses for your
state (or a multi-state area). Or as complex as
arranging a destination mini-reunion. If we were to have
a wine-tasting mini, perhaps in the Fall of 2010, in
Sonoma, CA, would you seriously consider attending? If
we planned a 2011 mini in Paris – would you join us? Or
is there another spot on either the U.S, or world map
that you think would be perfect for a ’58 mini? Please,
help me out here and email me—propperson@alum.wellesley.edu—with
your answers to those questions. If you have other
suggestions for minis or know you want to host one,
email me
Meanwhile, if you’re about to host a mini, please
download this
mini report form, fill it out
and email the completed form to me, copying Christine
Kurtz in the Alumnae Office (ckurtz@wellesley.edu). It
helps us all to know who’s having minis and I’ll
appreciate your taking a few minutes to do this. Yes, even for the small luncheon minis, if you
would, please. Alternatively, if it's easier for
you, email me the information requested on the form and
I'll record it and get it to the Alumnae Office.
We hope, too, that you’ll take photos of
all mini-reunions and send them, with identifying
captions, to Audrey at
AudreyReith@alum.wellesley.edu. She’ll put them on
this website for everyone’s enjoyment.
Let’s plan some great mini-reunions, shall we? Otherwise we’ll have to wait until 2013 to see each
other again, and who wants to do that?
Mary Edwards,
Class Vice President
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