T minus 9 days and counting until the 87-88 Year Course Reunion. We have great plans in place to share a memorable night together to reminisce, catch up on 20 years and have big fun in the big city!

New venue | We recently gauged the response of those who have bought tickets to both the dinner and the after party and decided to make a venue change. Loft 11 was meant to accommodate a huge crowd for the after-party. We did not get the kind of interest or commitment from the masses that we had been hoping to see happen to justify that space.

Your ticket now buys more | Given the circumstances, and hoping to keep costs to a minimum, we have made an exciting venue and ticket benefit change. We expect the funds allocated to be put to good now (and the reunion committee has floated the idea of committing any leftover funds to a one-time year course scholarship in memory of our one deceased friend – Steve Ochs). Ticket prices will now cover a full and tasty dinner, drinks, an after-party, and a brunch with a slightly different scenario.

May 20, 2008 Deadline | If you plan to attend all of the Reunion weekend activities, please buy your ticket online no later than Tuesday May 20, 2008, or be prepared to pay $150 in cash on the night of the Reunion. Either way, PLEASE let us know that you are attending by May 20, 2008. We must have a head count of those attending by then for planning purposes.

Memorobilia | Anyone still have clothing marked for kibbutz laundry? Please dig into your closets and pull out all those great Year Course goodies, such as t-shirts, shuk pants, kibbutz work gloves, etc. and bring them to the main event!

AGENDA | Your $150 ticket purchase will cover the following:

Reunion Dinner on Saturday night | 6:30pm-9:00pm – Ulysses

• There will be a big group of us who leave at the same time from the Tudor Hotel lobby so meet us there at about 5:30pm. We plan to leave at 5:45pm to take the subway. Please feel free to grab a taxi on your own or use HopStop to find your way there by Subway.
• Ulysses, A Folk House, 95 Pearl Street @ Stone Street, 212-482-0400 – Google Map of the Location
• Ulysses is a sprawling pub and fun space in the financial district. This onetime banquet room is equipped with a profusion of County Clare sandstone, wooden ceiling beams, and a 130-foot bar. There’s also a cafeteria-style carvery, raw bar, and outside seating.
• Open Bar all night (we will provide bracelets when you arrive at Ulysses)
• Fantastic Family Style Dinner from 6:30pm-9:00pm – (not Kosher – there wasn’t enough interest or necessity but we will happily accommodate anyone who lets us know of dietary needs in advance)
• Band cover charge (Ulysses agreed to book the band we had originally hired)
• Incredible slide show

The After-party has been simplified:

After-Party | 9:00pm with band starting at 10:00pm – Ulysses

• Ulysses will charge a discounted $5 cover charge to anyone who says: “I’m here for the Reunion”
• Cash Bar – there is no open bar
• Anyone is welcome to come to join us for the after-party – Please forward the After-Party Evite or add email addresses directly to it.

Hospitality Suite at the Tudor Hotel | Open all weekend

Tudor Hotel at the United Nations
304 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
p: 212.986.8800

• Saturday and Sunday Ronit (Vogel) Tarshis and Emily Blumenthal have adjoining rooms and are hostessing our hospitality suite
• Beverages and munchies are available

Sunday Brunch | 10:00am–12:00pm at the Tudor Hospitality Suite Rooms

• Bagels, Cream Cheese, Coffee, OJ and good times
• Possible park outing in the afternoon

Yearbook

• We will have disposable cameras available to catch candid shots at the party and brunch
• Send digital photos from the reunion to ycphoto8788@aol.com after the event
• We will send a PDF of the Yearbook out after the event

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*NOTE: For those of you who have said they can only come by on Sunday, Young Judaea has graciously offered to cover that additional cost.

As always, please contact me, mimi.kantor@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.

See you soon!!!

Mimi and the Reunion Committee

At the end of this email is a list of the bios I have received. If you sent me a bio and your name isn’t here, please resend, as I may have misplaced it. If you haven’t sent me anything, we’d really love to have something from you.

A few people have told me that they aren’t sure they want to send anything because they don’t have anything major or significant to report about their lives.

I think I can speak for nearly every Year Courser when I says that we really just want to know where everyone is, what they are up to, and how they are doing. So please send us something. The bio form is available here, on the reunion website.

Thanks everyone. Send bios to me.

Reuben

p.s. If the the rumor mill hasn’t quite reached you yet, allow me to finish the deal. Yes, it’s true, that Mimi Gaber and I are engaged to be married this August. We re-met working on the reunion committee, and the rest, we think, is history. So if you are still on the fence about the reunion, and need an added motivation, you just never know who you’ll reconnect with.

p.p.s. Remember that ticket prices will go up this week. If you have said you are coming and have not bought tickets yet, please buy them soon so that you won’t end up paying the higher ticket price.

Bios Submitted:

Aber_Ali.doc
Ackerman_Beth.doc
Belkin_Calla.doc
Blumenthal_Emily.doc
Cohen_Alysa.doc
Gaber_Mimi.doc
Gabriel_Most.doc
Golden_Saul.doc
Goldstein_Annie.doc
Harris_Julie.doc
Horowitz_Davida.doc
Kibel_Heather.doc
Levine_Greg.doc
Levitt_Melissa.doc
Levone_Wylie.doc
Loeb_Shona.doc
Marcus_Erika.doc
Margolis_Deborah.doc
Merow_Andrea.doc..doc
Miller_Carolyn.doc
Miller_Lauren.doc
Nagorsky_Brian.doc
Ornstein_Miriam.doc
Primus_Richard.doc
Saiger_Ira.doc
Silverman_Aaron.doc
Swirsky_Eric.doc
Tarshis_Ronit.doc
Ungerman_Ilana.doc
Wilk_Adi.doc
Williams_Rachel.doc

Cheers!

The Committee for a Better Reunion!

We are also missing the following individuals (some are from FZY or are Madrichim) so if you know anything about them, please let us know:

Jeff Dillon, Dalit Dishon, Daphna Doron, Julia Feldman, Abigail Fields, Beth Friedman, Deborah Gewirtz, Joel Gilbert, Doron Golan, Karen Goldman, Michael Goldstein, Daniel Goldstone, Steven Groden, Benjamin Isaacs, Rebecca Kaplan, Ann Kaye, Frank Kirschbaum, Craig Kolman, Laurie Marco, Talia Margalit, Kenny Markowitz, Rebecca Passman, Elissa Purcell, Rebecca Rosen, Melissa Rubenstein, Gillian Sank, David Schwartz, Lisa Shapiro, Daphna Sherbow, Darryl Stern, Liselle Terret

• Significant others are of course invited to attend with you.  It will be completely fun to meet them.  Tickets are $150/person not per couple though.
• There was a slight typo in the Dinner/After-Party ticket price increase.  If purchased on or after April 1, 2008 the price goes up to $180 not $160.  We need to have some firm numbers by then which is why the major price increase.
• We have had some inquiries about whether you can just attend the After-Party only if you attended our Year Course.  The answer is Yes, of course.  However there will be some fun things planned for the private time prior to the After-Party that you may miss.  We will be happy to see you at 6pm or 8:30pm though if that’s how you prefer to handle the evening’s fun.

Thanks!