Making a Class Reunion Special and Personal
How to Choose a Class Reunion Memento
How to Perk Up a Class Reunion
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Making a Class Reunion Special and Personal
Class Reunions should focus on your special memories. You want folks to chat about those good ol' days, and even the not-so-good ol' days. You want them talking and reminiscing with each other. You want classmates to have a starting point that helps them reconnect with each other.
For this reason, you want to display as much as possible of those days at the Reunion. Dig out posters or graphics of the school mascot, the school slogan, team photos from that year, and offer handouts of the school song. We all had dreams and we all had life get in the way of our best-laid plans. It takes a little planning to help us get back into the old classmate mode. Conversation starters and memory triggers help guests to relax and remember.
How to Choose a Class Reunion Memento
A good reunion memento/souvenir should be
• easy to carry and pack into a flight
bag
• something to keep always
• able to jog memories when folks get
back home
• inexpensive for the reunion planning
committees
• able to withstand the test of time
• unique to each Reunion
How to Perk Up a Class Reunion
Guest Maps
Make a map-template of the United States or other
geographical areas (see the link to Free Printables in the sidebar - they have downloadable maps of all types and are great for this purpose).
Put a dot for the
Reunion site.
Offer sticky dots or push pins and have guests mark their current home city.
At the end of the event, draw a line from each city to the Reunion
site.
Guests can take photos home with them.
Offer a prize for the guest who traveled the furthest to the Reunion.
Rent a Karaoke machine and sings the tunes that were popular the year your graduated.
Offer prizes for the guest
with the most children
with the most grandchildren
with the most pets
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