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MUSICAL Tickets Now Available!

Tickets for the Maine East High School production of SEUSSICAL are now on sale!  Dates of the performances are March 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m.  You may purchase your tickets now ONLINE by clicking HERE!

 Using this system you can select your seats and you will receive an e-ticket via email.
Join us for an evening filled with family fun! Now one of the most performed shows in America, "Seussical" is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza!  Dr. Seuss characters are brought to life including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination-Jojo.  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think" captures the show's spirit of imagination, as the colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the invisible world of the Whos.
Gary Zielinski
Social Science Department
Maine East High School
gzielinski@maine207.org
(847) 825-4484 ext 1388

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"Honor the Emblem"

January 27, 2010
Dear MTHS Classmate,

Today I had a meeting at Maine East.  While waiting in the rotunda, I noticed that students were treading right on our school emblem.  The tradition and heritage of honoring our emblem by not walking on it is being lost.  Today I also learned that some current teachers want to reestablish the “sanctity” of the school emblem.

Although, this may not seem as important as the difficult budget problems currently facing our alma mater, it will be discussed at the February 1 School Board meeting.  The issue is on the agenda and I plan to represent the views of alumni at the meeting.

It would certainly help the cause that the teachers and I will represent if you could reply to me with a simple yes vote to reestablish the importance of this emblem as a rallying symbol for past, present and future students at Maine East.

Please send your “Yes, honor the emblem” comments to me at dbaeuchler@sbcglobal.net by Sunday, January 31.  I will print and take them with me to the meeting the next day.

Thank you,  Don Baeuchler, 
Concerned MTHS 1960 Classmate

Announcement Blog-ette
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WMTH REUNION

WMTH radio will celebrate its 50^th Anniversary with a reunion September 25-27, 2009.
All WMTH radio and TV alumni are invited to attend the events throughout the weekend.
Come reminisce, reconnect with old friends, and celebrate this historic occasion.
 For further info, check the reunion pages and email;
REUNION@WMTHALUMNI.COM

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Dear MTHS Class of 1960 alum,                                                                            January 16, 2008
This is the first mass email to classmates about plans for our 50th high school reunion on the weekend of May 21-23, 2010.  You are receiving this notice because you are among the 329 “Found Classmates” from the combined Maine East and Maine West classes of more than 1300 whom we hope will attend the reunion.  Being “Found” means that a current/valid email address is now listed as part of your profile at the MTHS Class of 1960 Fiftieth Reunion web site: 
                      http://www.classreport.org/usa/il/mainetownship/mths/1960/
(Here’s an easier way to remember or explain to others:  Go to www.classreport.org.  Then click successively on:  Illinois - Park Ridge or Des Plaines - Maine Township High School - 1960.)

Although the reunion is still two years away, planning has been underway for some time to prepare for an outstanding reunion weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Lincolnshire, Illinois.  Even if you don’t know whether you’ll be able to join everyone in 2010, you can begin participation right now in a “virtual reunion” by visiting the web site to read about your friends and to update your own profile which shares your lifetime, family and career information with classmates.

In December, 2007, we signed a contract with the hotel and reserved meeting space and a block of guest rooms.  The hotel rooms will be available at a group discount rate, but reservations cannot be made before May 20, 2009.  A formal reunion invitation listing fees, schedules and  instructions for booking your hotel room, will be emailed in the spring of 2009.   Bookmark the reunion web site and check in occasionally to keep updated with plans as they unfold.

Meanwhile, there are several things you can do now to help us get ready for the reunion:

1. Reply to this email.  Do this immediately to confirm receipt and that your email address is correct.  You may provide a different email address to be used if you prefer.  
2. Visit the reunion web site.  This  will  give  you  information  on  reunion  plans, a  directory  

of classmates along with statistics on who has been found, who is missing and who is no longer with us.  Here you will also find a link to the hotel web site as well as the Maine East and Maine West alumni web sites.  Take a few minutes to check the messages which are posted, see whose birthday is coming up and read through some of your classmate’s profiles.  A different classmate profile and web site is automatically featured on the reunion home page each day.  There is no cost to you for using the web site or updating your profile information.

1. Update your profile.  Click on “View or Edit My Profile” to add your email address, other contact information, and a bit of your personal history that other classmates will enjoy knowing.  Even if you’ve already created a profile, you may wish to add to it.  This is the information that will be used to create the handout at the reunion that will be shared with others. 
2. Privacy is your option.  You have the option when updating your profile to keep your email address and city/state information private if you prefer.  Your phone number is always kept private.  If your profile information has come to us from other sources, your email/city/state has now been coded to be available for viewing by your classmates.  You can override this choice as you update your profile if you prefer privacy.  In this case, your class administrator alone will have access to the information and it will not be visible to others.
3. Send a current photo.  Once your profile has been updated we will be ready to add your senior yearbook photo.  Alongside your yearbook photo we would then like to post a recent photo.  You can email a JPG photo of yourself to petebenda@nc.rr.com.  Optionally, mail your photo for scanning and uploading to: Pete Benda, 8412 Caldbeck Dr, Raleigh, NC 27615.
4. Help spread the word.  You can help us reach our 878 “Missing” classmates by contacting those with whom you have kept in touch.  Tell them of our reunion plans and direct them to the reunion web site.  Send their contact information to petebenda@nc.rr.com and we’ll make sure they are added to the reunion web site and receive all of the email communications. 
5. Send a contribution.  Planning a reunion does not happen without a cost.  There are expenses to be handled for web site maintenance and for scheduled payments to the hotel.  If you want to help with a voluntary contribution, send a check (“MTHS Class of 1960 Reunion”) to: Eric Brookens, Reunion Treasurer, 5780 Regal View Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80919.  If we end up with more than is needed for the reunion, a contribution will be made to the schools.
6. Volunteer to be a detective.  If you’d like to help track down missing classmates, let us know and we’ll get you a list of about 20 names to work on locating along with some suggestions on how to go about your sleuthing work.
7. Offer your reunion suggestions.  Post your ideas, recommendations and questions about our reunion on the Message Board of our web site. 
8. Start communicating with classmates.  A big part of the fun of a reunion is the chance it provides to reconnect with old friends.  You can begin doing that right now.  Our reunion web site offers a way for you to reach out to classmates:  Get information needed for direct contact or post messages for group communications.  Begin your planning now by contacting and then scheduling time to meet with old friends during the reunion weekend.

Remember, we need email addresses.  We don’t want to send any information via the U.S. mail.  All information will be posted to our web site, and the formal invitation will be sent via email.  Thanks for your interest in, and for your assistance with getting ready for, our 50th reunion! 

Pete Benda, MTHS Class of 1960 Reunion Administrator 

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