MONSON ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
Meeting Agenda * March 10, 1997 * 6pm * Town Hall

  1. Secretary's report

  2. Treasurer's report

  3. Subcommittee reports
    1. Calendar, Cookbook, Memorabilia: orders, status, bills, promotion, ads, and sales
    2. Internet World Wide Web Home Page -Daryl Witmer, with Robert & Kym Brown
    3. Hospitality (invite & host delegations from Hebron ME / Monson MA, arrange tours) -Selectmen, Fire Department
    4. Publicity (articles and ads) -Janie Lander and Judy Lewis
    5. Photographer and videographer to chronicle 175th year's events -Carolyn Amos, Sue Ruby, Daryl Witmer
    6. Report on Raffle fundraiser 2/8/97 -Cindi Annis, Chris Hall, Sue Ruby
    7. Report on Rock-A-Thon fundraiser 2/8/97 -Chris Sargent
    8. Report on Birthday Supper 2/8/97 -Janie Lander, Judy Lewis, Renie French
    9. Monson's Birthday Ball 4/26/97 -Pembrokes, Wayne & Lisa Adkins, Sandy Burke
    10. Children's Monson Essay Contest -Richard Coburn, American Legion
    11. Children's May Basket project 5/1/97 -Patty Brown & Gina Reed
    12. Town Cleanup Day 5/10/96 -Patty Brown & Gina Reed
    13. Community Yard Sale 5/17/97 -Patty Brown
    14. Finn Hall breakfast & dance 6/21/97 -Annalee Korsman Libby
    15. Craft Fair 6/28/97 -Sue Ruby
    16. Narrow Gauge engine and track 6/28/97 (all day) -Althea French, Monson Historical Society
    17. Display one of Monson's earliest fire engines 6/28/97 (all day) -Fire Department
    18. Preservation Society museum display 6/28/97 -Annalee Korsman Libby
    19. Children's Games & Activities 6/28/97 9-10:30am -Dick Hunt
    20. Parade 6/28/97 1pm -Chris Sargent, Jerry & Juanita Hibbard, Clowes Brown
    21. Arrangements (Place banners, set up PA system, podium, table, chairs) 6/28/97 -Bob Wilson, Fire Department
    22. Decorations (acquire and decide on placement of plants, banners, buntings, etc.) -Gina Reed & Althea French
    23. Ceremony: service and guests 6/28/97 3pm-Daryl Witmer, Althea French
    24. Historical Photo & Art Exhibit 6/28/97 -Bunny Knight
    25. Time Capsule project 6/28/97 4pm -Chris Sargent
    26. Street Dance 6/28/97 -Chris Sargent & Dick Hunt
    27. Church History Sunday 6/29/97 -Daryl Witmer, nine-member committee from the Monson Community Church
    28. Community Picnic (Bar-B-Q), Ballgame, Folk March 9/13/97 -Richard Coburn, Youth & Adult Rec Committee
    29. History Book -Gina Reed, Julie Anderson, Richard Coburn, Tootie Bennett, Dick Hunt, D. Witmer, Althea French
  4. Old Business
    1. Announce: 1) $100 from Sunshine Club; 2) Fruit basket & cookbook to Browns Dec 96 as thanks for KyND services
    2. Needed: Information Booth staff & free public tour guides (to be coordinated with Moosehead) for 6/28/97
    3. Needed: someone to collect and attractively assemble all 175th-related newspaper articles and material in scrapbook
    4. Approve ceremony time change to 3:30pm, and location-in or out?, and other officials to be invited, i.e. judges?
    5. Entertain ideas for additional fundraisers: solicit business ads? other sources? (Sangerville = $30,000)
    6. Consider: 1) "I Remember When" senior citizen project: interview, photograph, feature, publish?; 2) Poster Contest
    7. 175th Committee legacy gift: ideas include 175th video, tables/chairs, night lights for signs, updated aerial photo set
  5. New Business

  6. Unstructured time to: reflect on the big picture, develop new ideas, consider any missing plans

  7. Set date, time, and place for next meeting: ______________________

  8. Adjournment
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