Mailing List:2001-01-19 04, the Reunion, by Carolyn Whitney Branagan
Mailing List Archives > 2001-01-19 04, the Reunion, by Carolyn Whitney Branagan
From: Chris Branagan <slainte -at- together.net> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] the Reunion Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:38:23 -0500 Hi Everybody! OK, we are putting out a "Last Call" regarding the possibility of a Whitney Family Reunion. Please let us know via the Whitney roots web site (you are on it right now) if you think this is a good idea and if you would try to come. Based on information collected so far, it looks like a Reunion would take place in the summer of 2002 in or near Watertown, Ma. , the residence of John and Elinor Whitney when they came in 1635. Because planning is still very, VERY early, there is a lot of flexibility as to what content could be considered, but the general goals of the reunion would be for members of the Whitney Research Group to get to know one another better and to share with one another the scholarly research done to date regarding the Whitney Family. This would include John and Elinor, Henry, the Southern Whitneys and the Canadian Whitneys. (Have I left out anyone?) We would try to include social times, banquets, perhaps some tours, lectures by members of the WRG, and perhaps some involvement by the Watertown Historical Society. Is there any interest in a golf tourney? The reunion would take place over one three day weekend, starting on Friday afternoon, running all day Saturday and concluding after church and brunch on Sunday. We will need people to be on the Organizing Committee willing to take charge of each of the following areas: lodging and meals, tours, lectures, registration. This will be a volunteer committee, no one from the committee will make any money on this reunion. I think we should also have some legal advice from some of our member WRG attorneys on liability pitfalls for the Committee. So far the volunteers for the Committee are Lynn Legere and me. We are hoping to involve Jeanne Muse somehow. Make your thoughts known. If we do this, we want it to be done well. from, Carolyn Whitney Branagan
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