To All Towering Oaks Alumni:

From: Billy Briggs

Date: 9/10/07

Many of you are aware that TO web site recently experienced some major difficulties due to a problem with our web host. Our original host disappeared on us several months ago and with no warning stopped responding or servicing our site. I am not exactly sure when this happened. But, if anybody submitted profiles or other information which was ignored, the problem was with our web host. It has taken some time, effort and money to repair the damage caused by our initial host but we now have a new host and are up and running again. I apologize to anybody who sent information that was ignored. Please resubmit any information that was ignored and this time we will take care of it.

On another front, due largely to the recent problem with the web site, I have been in email and contact with a number of TO alumni. Everybody I have talked wants to see a Towering Oaks reunion in 2008. The consensus seems to be that we ought to have a big “all-in” shindig open to everybody that ever attended TO. The idea I have heard tossed about is that we would have a two night function. One night we would get a large room for a school-wide function. The other night we would break up into smaller groups by graduating class. Depending on how ambitious the reunion planning committee is we could add other festivities like a golf tournament, family picnic, etc.

That sounds great, right? But, who is going to make it happen? We need a reunion planning committee. I will be glad to allow the TO web site to be used to post information and contact members and otherwise offer assistance. However, I am not a party planner and will not try to plan this one. What is needed is a group of brave souls to set up, take the bull by the horns, and make this reunion happen. In order to assist the planning committee and start to narrow the options down, I am asking for alumni input on a few general questions:

Would you prefer one big reunion for everybody or individual reunions organized by graduating class?
When is the best time to have a reunion in 2008? April? May? June? July?
Where is the best place to hold the reunion? Downtown Memphis? East Memphis?, Tunica? (Gasp! That would be weird but Tunica does have good facilities.)

Send me an email at briggs8949@bellsouth.net with you opinions. I will tabulate and post the results on the web site in the near future.

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