Colerain High School Alumni Association

Organizing	Countdown	Hunting for Classmates
Form a committee, choose a secretary, treasurer, facilities contact, graphics artist, publicist, etc. until everyone has a title. Determine a date for the reunion that is available to everyone on the committee. Start a treasury.	12 months	Contact the alumni association, ask for their information about your classmates. Also, check any published alumni directory.
Select a site for the reunion. Assemble your roster from the alumni database, annuals, commencement announcements, and all other sources available. List all classmates, men and women, by their surnames.	11 months	Search the Internet for those who have identified themselves as your classmates in high school registries. If yours is a renewed committee, obtain the records of any prior planners also.
Mail the initial letter to the class. Announce the date and place (but not necessarily the price) of the reunion, have them verify their addresses and seek their help in locating your classmates and alumni from other classes. Ask that if the letter reached someone with the same name, but not your classmate, they contact you. Continue to mail initial letters to newly found classmates.	10 months	Access student rosters from other classes of your school to find siblings of your missing classmates by common addresses. Ask your committee and anyone else who attended your school for their recollections of missing classmates and their families. Parents may still be living at the same place they did when their children were in school.
Choose a firm to print the "Memory book", a booklet containing photos of your classmates at the reunion, a directory, list of decedents, etc. Decide if you want a disk jockey or a band. Choose and engage the person or group of your choice.	9 months	Telephone classmates who did not respond to the initial letter, personally invite them to the reunion and fill out the letter with information from the phone conversation. Continue to do so as new classmates are found and fail to respond to the letter.