The Williams-Rivers Family Reunion 2008
The notices have gone out to selected family members announcing the 2008 Williams-Rivers Family Reunion. I am reproducing it here at the Descendants of Mandi webiste for those of us who are not on the official family mailing list. It will be held in Nashville, Tennessee on August 1, 2, and 3 2008 at the Marriott Hotel (Details about the host hotel are forthcoming).
It has been 30 years since the first family reunion in 1978 and the theme of the reunion is "30 Years Later". According to the initial announcement, the reunion will include a get aquainted night with videos of years gone by and a tour of Nashville as well as a formal banquet on Saturday night.Sunday will include church with our Nashville relatives at the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church where Julius Williams and Cloreace Williams Eppinger are the assistant pastor and associate pastor, repsectively.
Registration fees are as follows: $100.00 for adults 16 years olda nd up, $50.00 for children 6 to 15 years old, and children 5 years old and under are free. Registrations are being sent to the following Family Members: Lenford Carr, 94 W. Maple Street, Humboldt TN, 38343 (731-784-5565); Bunice Robinson, 16714 Kentfield, Detroit MI, 48219 (313-538-8673); Julius Williams, 1182 Mt. Vernon Lane, Mt. Juliet, TN 37122 (615-754-9978). The Reunion Committee is asking everyone to register by March 15, 2008. They are also asking that photos be sent to Bunice Robinson by April 1, 2008. T-shirts are being offered at $10.00 or youth sizes and $12.00 for adult sizes (cotact Julius Williams for t-shirts).
The Family Reuinion Commitee consists of the following members: Lenford Carr, Chairman, Bridgett Hill, Marquita Patterson, Bunice Robinson, Julius Williams, Cloreace Williams Eppinger, Costella Williams, Alphonso Williams, Clinton Williams, Curtis Williams, Eric Dickerson, William Carr, Vincent Carr, Nana Kweku Carr Asante.
It has been 30 years since the first family reunion in 1978 and the theme of the reunion is "30 Years Later". According to the initial announcement, the reunion will include a get aquainted night with videos of years gone by and a tour of Nashville as well as a formal banquet on Saturday night.Sunday will include church with our Nashville relatives at the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church where Julius Williams and Cloreace Williams Eppinger are the assistant pastor and associate pastor, repsectively.
Registration fees are as follows: $100.00 for adults 16 years olda nd up, $50.00 for children 6 to 15 years old, and children 5 years old and under are free. Registrations are being sent to the following Family Members: Lenford Carr, 94 W. Maple Street, Humboldt TN, 38343 (731-784-5565); Bunice Robinson, 16714 Kentfield, Detroit MI, 48219 (313-538-8673); Julius Williams, 1182 Mt. Vernon Lane, Mt. Juliet, TN 37122 (615-754-9978). The Reunion Committee is asking everyone to register by March 15, 2008. They are also asking that photos be sent to Bunice Robinson by April 1, 2008. T-shirts are being offered at $10.00 or youth sizes and $12.00 for adult sizes (cotact Julius Williams for t-shirts).
The Family Reuinion Commitee consists of the following members: Lenford Carr, Chairman, Bridgett Hill, Marquita Patterson, Bunice Robinson, Julius Williams, Cloreace Williams Eppinger, Costella Williams, Alphonso Williams, Clinton Williams, Curtis Williams, Eric Dickerson, William Carr, Vincent Carr, Nana Kweku Carr Asante.
Labels: 2008 Williams-Rivers Family Reunion, descendants of mandi, Williams-Rivers Family Reunion
posted by Eric J Williams at 11:56 PM
2 Comments:
What's up with only sending notices to "selected family members"? It leaves LOTS of people out in the dark. I missed the deadline, to boot. If I hadn't read Intisar's page and then linked to this page and cruised around, I'd still be ignorant about the reunion.
Based on a simple business-advertising model - cast net wide, get more consumers. Sending notices to everyone possible (not just a handful) increases the likelihood of high attendance and participation.
Believe it or not, I was not on the list myself...I got the info through my mom menioning that something had come, and then me bugging my dad (Nathaniel) into making a copy for me. Once I had it, I then retyped it and posted it to the Descendants of Mandi website as well as the Descendants of Mandi Group on Facebook...I stopped short of sending it to the Yahoo e-group list...probably should have done that as well.
I wouldn't worry about missing the March 15 Deadline...it's still pretty early...not being an officlal member of the Committee, I can only guess that they did that to encourage early enrollment. Whenwe did the Chicago Reunion, the bulk of our registrations happened in June and July.
No matter how much we try to update things, the reunions always seem to take a trickle down approach---elders passing the info to their offspring and such.
For the younger, computer savvy among us, I will try to use the family e-group as well as the Facebook group to send electronic shout outs to everyone.
Eric J
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