Yearning to reminisce about the Brownies?
Feeling nostalgic about Centretown News?
Wondering whatever happened to your third-year TV crew?
Or are you simply willing to come all the way to Ottawa to once again sample the wonders of Carleton cuisine?
If all the worst aspects of the 1980s (shoulder pads, Platinum Blonde) can enjoy a resurgence in 2012, certainly we can. So mark your calendars for the 25th anniversary reunion of the Carleton University School of Journalism class of 1987.
And by “class of 1987,” we mean anyone who started at Carleton in (roughly?) 1983 and slogged through until 1987. If you didn’t finish your HRP until 1988, or 1989, or never, we honestly don’t care. If you ever showed up at Radio News on two hours’ sleep with absolutely no story ideas, you’re in. You know who you are.
Your keen conference co-chairs, Janet Lees and Laura Byrne Paquet, are still working out the details, but here are the basics.
You’re welcome to attend a wide range of events during Alumni Week (May 7-13), which handily coincides with our reunion. The main event we’re organizing is a dinner at Baker’s Grille (formerly the Faculty Club, on the fourth floor of the Unicentre at Carleton), on
Saturday, May 12, 2012.
Details on prices, menus and so on will be posted as soon as they’re available. Spouses and significant others are most welcome. The kind folks at the Carleton Alumni Office are handling all the nitty gritty details like selling tickets, and a link to that site will be posted here when it’s up and running. There will also be discounts at at least one Ottawa hotel.
Some reunion-related chatter is also happening at our Facebook site, if FB is your thing.
We hope you’ll join us. We promise no news quizzes, no editing tape with razor blades, no typewriters with broken keys and no Oasis pizza.
Questions? Of course you have questions--you spent four years learning how to ask ‘em. Feel free to e-mail Laura at laura [at] cornerstoneword [dot] com or Janet at janet [dot] lees [at] me [dot] com.
And if you have contact info for anyone from our class, please let us know. Thanks!
See you in May 2012!
