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65th Reunion
St. Peter's Church, Locust Valley, Barnesville, PA
Sunday, July 13th 2008

It was a beautiful day, with a combination of warm, humid, but breezy, that ended in a thunder storm but fortunately not until we were already packed up and on our way home.  We had a great amount of children who enjoyed games led by Jill such as potato sack races and other games, plus a game of baseball, Uno, and Bocce Ball for the 'older kids.'  With all of the fun we totally forgot to take a group photo and other photos.

No one had a difficult time finding the location and many commented on how nice of a place it is.  Some responded this year saying that they could not attend due to the costly gasoline prices which was quite understandable.  Even though we had an attendance of only 45 this year, we had a great variety of wonderful food.  Thank you to everyone for the culinary delights!

The schedule ran close to the following:

9:30am            Set up

Noon               Drop off covered dish/dessert

Registration and Information session

                                    -Get photos scanned
                        -Update family tree

Write down your bid for the candy guessing game

Buy a Fritz Family Cookbook                       

                        Mingling

1:00pm            Meeting

            Minutes – Corresponding & Recording Secretaries:  Ruth Throne announced that people were not RSVPing which threw off our count to gauge how much BBQ/hot dogs/buns to make and buy.  People were reminded to please RSVP and do not assume that we know that you are attending.  Mailing statistics:  93 newsletter/invitations sent, 9 returned as undeliverable, with E-mail and phone responses and one address update.  Through RSVPs to Ruth, 16 were known to be attending, but with through other planning committee members, we knew of about 27 coming and a few of those people couldn't make it in the end.
The meeting minutes from last year were in the newsletter/invitation mailing so they were approved without having to be read aloud.

Memorial Moments
Eleanor Peifer Noonemacher              8/23/07
Clifford T. Clark                                 9/27/07
Margaret Herring Zimmerman            10/15/07
Rose Clark Boccanera                         10/20/07
Lawrence Frye                                    11/8/07
Richard Schweitzer                             11/25/07
Dorothy Sticher Van Saun                  12/9/07
Aleen Wilds Trabosh                          12/17/07
Joan Krieger Fritz                               12/13/07
Lester Kester                                       1/22/08
Carol Armstrong Sekula                     1/27/08
Carol Patrick Leach                            2/3/08
Charles Baus                                       2/29/08
Maurice H. Gerber                              3/31/08
Eleanor Leitzel Purnell                        4/13/08
Susan Fay Cunningham                      4/30/08
Dorothy Steele Garber                        6/1/08
William A. Hoffman
Sue Beaumont

A moment was also taken to pray for N. Garber, hospitalized at the time.

Congratulations – Babies, Weddings, Retirements, etc.

Births
Averyana Nicole Layton, 9/16/07 to Jason Layton & Nicole Wilcox
Shane Austin Smith, 9/17/07 to Eric Smith & Danielle Cunningham
Connor Miles Kofluk, 10/1/07 to Shawn Kofluk & Sherri Everett
Nicholas David Manley, 11/19/07 to David Manley & Erin Hubler
Sara Ellen Conti, 1/28/08

Awards – This year, along with the regular categories awarded such as:  Distance Traveled (Howie & Marion Fritz), Oldest/Youngest Male (Herb Curvey/Ethan Schlear), Most Matured/Youngest Female (Ruth Throne/S Schlear), Longest Married (Herb & Evelyn Curvey), Most Recently Married (Joe & Juli Maher), we had our 'game' with many more categories awarded:  Bought a cookbook today (Rita Gambler), Had most photos scanned today (Doris Nelson), Gave most updates to David at the information table (Doris Nelson), Registered first today (Al Frit), Wearing a Fritz/reunion shirt and 1st to report to prize table, Brought the most people with them in one vehicle (Brenda Schlear), Longest hair on a male (Agostino D'Ancona), Shortest hair on a female (Rita Gambler), Tallest (Richard Fritz), Most keys on 1 keychain (Dick Horning), Longest feet (Gereon Sclear, Jr), Most in coins/change (Doris Nelson), Longest fingernails (Juli D'Ancona), Wearing the largest hat (Zach Lambert), Biggest mustache (Gereon Schlear, Jr), Wearing a belt (1st to report) (Herb Curvey), Most family photos in wallet/purse (Marcia Horning), Raising the most children under 18 (Mary Lambert), Wearing the most jewelry (Jill Thompson), 1st to report with biggest muscles (Jill Thompson), and Brought the most children to the Reunion (Brenda Schlear).  Of course, last but not least was the winner of the Hershey's Kissables in a Jar Guessing Game brought by Jill and awarded to Evelyn Curvey.

Historians’ Report - David would like to produce a Volume III of the Descendents of David Fritz which would be on CD but a handful would be printed for the Library of Congress and some historical societies.  It was not possible for this year due to hard drive failures impeding progress.

Treasurer’s Report
Last quarter ending June 30, 2008 found us with a balance of $1,042.95 including interest.
Between cookbook sales and generous donations from this year's reunion attendees (THANK YOU!), we were able to deposit $456 bringing us to a new balance of $1,498.95.  Out of this account we pay park fees, hot dogs & buns perhaps, paper products, web site hosting and domain fees, mailing and bulletin copying, and postage amongst other expenses for reunions and book publishing.

Old Business – St Peter’s Location (Worked out great!), New tree boards (No one had time to get together to create new tree lines.)
New Business
Elect ’09-‘10 Officers:  Only change in officers is an election of Joe Maher as treasurer.  Thank you Joe!
2009 Location:  Barring a miscount, 26 out of 31 adults voted for St. Peter's as the location again next year.
Discussion of activities to encourage even more families to attend with children, especially teenagers, next year.
Donations Collection
Joe will speak to Ruth about transfer of funds/signatures on treasury account and get familiar with account activity.

1:30pm            Welcome and Devotional by Rev. Howie Fritz
                        Lunch & More mingling – Share potluck meal                       

2:30-4:30         View family tombstones in St. Peter’s Cemetery - This went over very well.  Thank you everyone for your interest in all of the history at this location.
Submit family tree updates and photos for scanning - Thank you for your submissions!

3:00pm            Games

4:30pm            Clean Up and Evening Vespers

5:00pm            Farewell!