Reunion Updates

Monday, March 16, 2009

1st MEETING 3/22/09 CHOWKING or Max PULILAN @ 2 P.M.

TOPICS:

• When, Where, Time?




• Committee will decide what exact date in March 2010 – will be posted @ sda blogs/fs after the first meeting!


• Location/Venue:




• Option 1 - St. Dominic – need to inform the principal of this event, also this one will save us money instead of renting a location.


• Option 2 - Restaurant that can accommodate at least 200 Dominicans (this is only an estimate, how much # per classroom/section? Plus invited teachers?)


• Option 3 – Someone suggested pool/resort? – Depending on the budget – this should be finalized during the committee meetings.


• Option 4 - If someone has a bigger lot, and willing to use the lot as our venue; even better we’ll save money.


• Time? - Ask everyone in the committee meeting and have them vote what is the best time, in the morning or evening? 10 to 3pm? Or 5 to 10pm?


• MONEY MATTERS!!!
  Where is the money coming from? - From all Dominicans who wanted to make this reunion possible.




• Committee will vote who would be the designated TREASURER? – (Once we know who would be the trusted treasurer, the name and YM add and tel # will be posted here for easy contact access)


• Open a bank account (PNB? Equitable? Metro Bank? Etc…)
  (Once we have a bank account, the account # and the bank address will be posted here for easy access depositing money for everyone – I am not too confident on this one though, shouting out the bank accnt # and the bank address? – I probably would suggest to have someone research if the bank allowed only an “organization name” Instead of posting out the bank account #; we could address to St. Dominic Reunion ‘95 Account – if that is possible then we are not going to post out the bank account # but instead when someone will try to deposit money they can just put to deposit money to St. Dominic


• Required minimum deposit is P1000 – Up to maximum of NO LIMIT (like I said on my previous shout out, this is not about who contributed a lot or who did not contribute, this is not for bragging how much you contributed or who were not able to contribute, IT’S ABOUT “GIVING” FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERYONE!!!)


• It will be up to everyone’s agreement whether the the amount contributed will be posted out here for updates/account balances purposes, or the copy of the bank statement will be scanned here for everyone to be informed.
• Deposits and Withdrawals will always be updated here.

**Now, where is the money going to be spent?
Venue – if we are going to spend money to rent a place (if not even better)
Food
Decorations
Invitations/Newspaper adds/Bulletins?
Music/DJ’s/band – if you know a friend who can do this for free even better
Photographers
Souvenirs
Games and prices
Gifts for Teachers?
If we have enough, we can donate money to charity?


• HOW ARE WE GOING TO START SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS?




• Invitations - one or two committee will be assigned to design, create invitation, send invitations, will search for student's addresses, and will locate students everywhere (the two or more assigned hardworking committee will try their very hard to find all the student to attend to this awesome and most awaited reunion). - The assigned committe will make sure the head counts prior to the big celebration...


• News Adds/Post in Churches/Shopping malls/Schools, or any possible ways to locate Batch'95


• PROGRAMS
  (select committe who's artistic and creative who can make this program as alive and exciting as possible)
  (Sample: 3pm - opening prayers, 4-5pm - games, 6-7pm - serve dinner and so on.... to closing prayer)


• DECORATIONS: (Balloons, table cloths, flowers, table centerpiece, etc..) 2-4 committee's will be assigned on this tasks


• GAMES/PRICES/SOUVENIRS/MISC like success stories, sad stories etc - ( 4 individuals needed to perform this tasks)


• FOOD (The most yum part!)




• Option 1 - Catering? if the venue will be @ St. Dominic
  Option 2 - Restaurant? - if will be held at the restaurant - Which restaurant? - All suggestions are welcome; but again, committe will decide based on votings...


• Kind of food to be served? - Filipino food? Chinese? Thai Food? Mexican? Italian? - this only apply if food will be catered, (Committe, again will need to vote on this food matter)

Misc1: On 3/22/09, deligations of committe will be assigned to different tasks to move this forward - once finalized, it will be posted out in sda blogs and/or friendster! So watch out for the chosen ones!

Misc2: Every meeting dates will be posted here, every progress will also be updated here.