A “Must Have” for either a 40th, 50th or even a 60th High School Reunion! Our class said they will cherish it forever. This is no ordinary Alumni Book. It’s 8 1/2 x 11”, black and white, (Cover is in full color) and nearly 1” thick! Ours was 200 pages! Considered more like a coffee table book, with "Then and Now" pages featuring current photographs - as well as senior year pics - and up-to-date biographies of your grads, including a classmate directory. It makes for fascinating reading...even if you don't know the people! Also included in ours was the entire sheet music of "Wilsonia" - our school song. One does not need to attend the reunion to receive this keepsake. It even comes with a CD of full color photos from the pre-night and main evening event! (These were photos taken from volunteers from our class).
Each participant gets one half page to write their "bio" of Then and Now. What's great is that the grads send in their own recent photo - of themselves or with their families... This does away with the hired expense of a professional photographer and the boring waiting line when one first arrives at the reunion. It also helps the Alumni Book get mailed out sooner. Ours was mailed out 2 months after the reunion!
You really need someone that is good on the computer and can scan in their high school senior photos for the "Then" photo and use their recent photo for the "Now" and layout all of the bio information from what they email or slow mail to you. There is also a directory listing and the collage of the main evening and a "In Memory Of" photo page.
Here's a generic sample of how a bio would look.
Here is a sample of the "In Memory Of" page included in the Alumni Book. You can also make an enlarged poster of this for your reunion night.
