Reunion Events!

We have been so busy trying to get you all to come to the reunion that not much information has come out about what we are actually doing.  So here are some details to get you excited!!


FRIDAY:  7:00 Casual night out, meeting up at the Bred Pub in Downtown Opelika.  This event will be Dutch treat! You can eat dinner there or one of the other great new restaurants downtown and meet up later!

http://www.irishbredopelika.com/

http://www.eastalabamaliving.com/features/a-culinary-tour-downtown-opelika/


SATURDAY: 11:30 We will have a family picnic at the Ecology Preserve in Auburn.  Bring your own picnic and we will provide ice and drinks.  There will also be an  Ecologist there that will do a presentation for the kids.  This sounds really neat and you don't want to miss this!

http://wp.auburn.edu/preserve/?

SATURDAY: 7:00 This is the MAIN event!!!  We will meet up at the Event Center Downtown Opelika for a fun night of dancing and reminiscing! 

Silky Tone entertainment will be the DJ (I've heard he is a lot of fun and I will be taking your requests soon) and Finley's will be catering!  There is room to do the sprinkler on the dance floor as well as get away and catch up with a friend! A cash bar will be available. 

The question on this has been "what will be the dress?" for that night.  After some discussion we decided to go with "dressy casual", but honestly, come in what makes YOU comfortable!  If that is shorts and a t-shirt, go for it, if that is an awesome dress with killer heels, do it!  We just want you there!!!!

 http://www.eventcenterdowntown.net/Home.html

http://silkytonemusic.com/

But if you haven't bought your ticket yet, none of this matters!!! So buy your tickets!  We decided to continue to make them $60 until the week of the reunion and then the price will go up!!  You know it's going to be fun and you will regret not going, so buy your ticket today!  Either use the PayPal button in the top right corner or mail a check made out to "OHS Class of 1993" to
Michelle Vance
1270 Boone Hall Drive
Powder Springs, GA 30127

If you have any questions, email me: msmvance@bellsouth.net or message me through Facebook!
Can't wait to see you there!

Buy Your Tickets!!!

I know you are all busy, I get it, believe me I do!  But the time has come to buy your reunion tickets!!!  Friends, I am super excited to see you all, but to be honest I am also super stressed.  My personal name is on these contracts and we need to pay up in three weeks.

So in order to light a fire under some of you,  as of Friday we will be raising ticket prices to $70 each.  If you have a financial issue (payday, etc.) please contact me through Facebook or msmvance@bellsouth.net.

You can pay through the PayPal link on the right of this page or mail me a check made out to
OHS Class of 1993
1270 Boone Hall Drive
Powder Springs, Georgia 30127

As far as an agenda for the weekend here is what is going on...

Friday night:  meet up at the Irish Bred Pub, downtown Opelika (Dutch treat)
Saturday afternoon:  picnic at the Ecological preserve in Auburn with an ecologist presentation for the kids.  Bring your own picnic lunch.
Saturday night:  the Event Center, downtown Opelika 7:00.  DJ, heavy finger foods, cash bar.

More details will be coming soon!!!

Thank you all for relieving some of my stress by buying your tickets....my family thanks you too!!!

Ticket Sales:

Tickets are on sale!  $60 a person

There are two ways you can pay. 

1. Click on the PayPal link to the right on this page.  There is a $2 service charge per ticket.
2. Mail a check payable to "OHS Class of 1993" to:
Michelle Vance
1270 Boone Hall Drive
Powder Springs, Georgia 30127

Deadlines for ticket sales:

PayPal service charged waived until Monday, April 22nd.

$60 a person until May 20th.

$65 a person until June 20th.

$70 a person until July 5th. 

$85 a person at the door.

The price of your ticket is covering Saturday afternoon pavillion and enviromentalist (for the kiddos), Saturday night venue, food and DJ. 

If you have any questions just let us know!  Can't wait to see you all!

HELP US!!!

No deadline has been set for payment, but we need your payment.  Vendors are wanting deposits and payments and without your money we are unable to do that...

So make the decision...are you coming?? We want you there!! 

With Facebook, many feel that they are connected as they want to be with their classmates, but push away from the computer and make a real connection with your classmates.   These are the people that you grew up with, that know the REAL you!! I like to say that you all are the people that knew me when I had braces and glasses and loved me anyway!

We have a great DJ scheduled and he will help us step back in time and remember what it was like to be young!!

So use the PayPal account and make the decision to come HOME this summer and see your friends and family! 

At least let us know that you are coming...it will make my blood pressure go down some!!!

And now a word from our President...

Class of 1993,

Next summer will be 20 years since we graduated from OHS. I'm excited about getting together for our reunion. A committee has already been formed and is planning it out. The date has been set July 19 & 20. If you are able, please go ahead and send in your money to Michelle. We need it to be able to reserve a place to meet.

Let's go ahead and start the reminiscing... post a favorite memory from high school.

One of my favorites was Tyree Melton scolding the entire class at a pep rally when we were not doing his cheer correctly. He just stopped it, and said we needed to pick it up... "I said, Take... me out..."

Who's next?

Jason

TWENTY YEARS!!!

Wow!  Can you believe we are approaching twenty years? 

The reunion committe has met and we have decided on a date!

Mark your calendars for...

JULY 19-20, 2013!!!

We have a lot of work to do before then and we need your help!  First and foremost is getting the word out!!  We will not be doing a mailing this time and will be relying on YOU to tell everyone about the event.

We are trying to secure our location for the event, but our coffers are empty.  If you would like to help us out by pre-paying for the event we can give you a $5 discount off of each ticket.  Tickets to our 20 year reunion are $60 per person.  So if you pay before July 18th of this year, your ticket will be just $55.  If you are able, please send checks payable to "OHS Class of 1993" to:

Michelle Metzger Vance

2715 Battery Trace

Marietta, Georgia 30064

If you have any questions you can message me through Facebook or email me at msmvance@bellsouth.net

Reunion Committee:

Jason Nichols
Tiffany Kennedy

Daffany Kennedy Walker

Lynette Hinton Boone

Laura Gilliland Dunlap

Michelle Metzger Vance

Michael Roberts

Holli Parker

Chris Duncan

Tyree Melton

Want to help??  Message me!

The Party is Over...

I just wanted to write a post to kind of wrap things up after our reunion. I am finally back at home after being at the reunion and then time at the lake... back to reality I guess.

I think we all had a great time and I know it went by too fast for me! Many of you thanked me for the hard work, but I want to thank all of you for first of all coming and helping find all of our classmates!! Thank you to many of you, but especially Tyree for updating me on so many of our classmates!!

Many of my friends here in Atlanta do not understand why I like to work on our class "stuff". And sometimes I wonder myself, but besides my complete need to organize an "event" I have to say that I really love our class. I think we are a unique group of friends. I didn't move to Opelika until I was 11 and none of my family lives there now, but I still consider Opelika my home, it's where I say I am from.

I love my classmates because they knew me when I wore glasses, had buck teeth, then braces and they still love me and accept me. And I knew you when you were not quite sure what to do with your hair, had acne, never should have worn that dress to prom, got in a fight with your friend, acted obnoxious, etc. etc., but I still love you and accept you.

I have to say when I saw many of you last Saturday it was like time had stood still. I work on this reunion "stuff" because I think we have a special class and I want us to be the class that is still getting together 50 years down the road... I hope you all feel the same way.

Many of you have started giving me ideas of what you would like to do for our 20th. The main idea has been "let's do this big" and I think I agree! But this one will be more difficult and I can't do it alone. First and foremost you must must must keep me updated with any address changes. My email address will not change: msmvance@bellsouth.net

So if you had a good time at our reunion and would like to donate to the 20th please send it to:
OHS Class of 1993
c/o Michelle Metzger Vance
2715 Battery Trace
Marietta, Georgia 30064
and you can make checks out to OHS Class of 1993

If you would like to help plan the 20th, email me and let me know.

When you are in Opelika and you are looking to get some people together, let me know I can put out an email!!

Thanks again for making our 15th great!!! Can't wait to see you all again!!!
Michelle

Your Questions...Answered!

Hi Everyone!!
One week from today we will be seeing each other at our reunion!! I hope you are getting as excited as I am!
Over the past couple of weeks I have gotten a few of the same questions, so I will answer them here in case anyone else might have the same questions!!

The party starts and dinner will be served at 6pm.

Dress is whatever you want, but I'm dressing casual!

Cost: Nothing. Even if you didn't come to the 10 yr. reunion, your cost is still nothing. Although I will have a "donation jar" out to fill our coffers back up for the 20th. (We will be almost completely depleted after this!) If you want to write a check, I am able to take checks, just make them out to "OHS Class of 1993".

Let me know if you have anymore questions!

Marty and Ashley McGill Haywood

Hey everyone!! Marty and I are still together, married 13 years in October. We are still in Opelika. We live out in Beauregard. We have two beautiful girls Cierra is 8 and Mattie is 6. Marty works from home for a company called Premaco. He does outside sales and market consultation in Columbus, Phenix City, Valley and Lagrange. I have been at home since our oldest was born but am about to return to work when school starts back. I am going to work at Beauregard Elementary doing computer work, I have a degree in computer science that I have yet to use because I finished college in December and our first was born in January. We are very active in the community out here. I am on the Board of Directors as Softball Commissioner for the Beauregard Youth Athletics Association. I never thought 15 years ago when we were graduating that Marty and I would be big Hornet fans, but we absolutely love it out here.

Unfortunately we were unable to make it to the 10 year reunion and won't be able to make it to this one either. We will be out-of-town the weekend of the 26th. Hope everyone has a good time and is doing well. I have been sitting here reading everyone's blog posts and enjoying hearing what everyone is up to. Everyone take care and maybe we will make it to the 20 year.

Reminder

Just a reminder that I need to know if you are coming to the reunion on July 26th by this Saturday, July 12th!!!!

"I'm Dissapointed In You"

Didn't you hate that when your parents would say that. I would have rather just been spanked and had it over with than to feel my father's disappointment.

Well, I'm dissapointed in you. Out of the 60 plus people we have going to the reunion I have had ONE ONLY ONE song request!!! Now, do you really expect me, a 33 year old stay-at-home mom to be able to generate a playlist that is remotely any good???? Really. Help a girl out!! It does not have to be songs from our "hey day" it can be current or WHATEVER, but I think you will be highly disappointed when the only thing I have to contribute is any Wiggles songs or songs from my Debbie Gibson cassette tapes. That would be a travesty. (Although you know you would love to "shake your love")

If you don't request any music I don't want to hear you belly aching on July 26th that you don't know the motions to "Fru

it Salad, Yummy, Yummy." (How many of you just sang that in your head, can I get an amen for some Wiggles...)

So here are two easy ways to help me: one, go under this post and click on "comments". You can post without having a gmail account, or email me: msmvance@bellsouth.net It's that easy...it's the least you can do!!!

Here is a website that might jog your memory...

http://members.tripod.com/john_larocque/90.html

Christi Daugherty Bradley

I sure have enjoyed reading all the posts. We all have accomplished so much!!! It will good to see everyone again-the 10th was lots of fun! After high school, I went to Southern Union and got my Associates degree in Radiography and then moved to Birmingham to get my Bachelors in Radiation Therapy. I moved to Huntsville after graduation, where I met my husband, Justin. I worked at a Cancer Center there, while training to be a Medical Dosimetrist(I design the radiation treatment plans for the cancer patients). In 2006, Justin and I moved to Dacula, GA-about 30 miles outside Atlanta, where I am currently working as a Dosimetrist at Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia. Justin is a Financial Service Officer at Georgia Federal Credit Union in Duluth. He is from Guntersville, so we get back to Alabama as much as possible. We do not have any children yet, but have 5 crazy pets at home that keep us entertained until that time comes. We'll see everyone soon.

Help Needed

For those of you that would like to help in anyway I could use some volunteers with break down and clean up on Sunday. In order to get our $50 deposit back we have to leave the place the way we found it. I need to know who might be available for clean up on Sunday. I would imagine we would meet after lunch sometime and get the place cleaned back up. I have to drive back to Atlanta on Sunday and I would hate to have to spend the afternoon cleaning the place by myself!! Please email me if you are able to help: msmvance@bellsouth.net

Heather Hope Weston

Hey guys. I can't believe what success has come out of our class. You all sound so happy and loved. What a blessing that is to hear.
I married Brad 13 years ago. Amazing and probably to many peoples suprise we are still together. I think we are just too old and too lazy to find somebody new!! Really we are back in Opelika after 8 years all over the country with Brad's work. We moved back after we had our first child, Hunter. He is now 6 and my angel child. Two years ago we added our second, Peyton, and boy he is already giving me a run for my money. My mom says he's me made over, I however think he acts just like his dad.
Brad started his own business here, Titan Metals, making architectural steel. I got my teaching degree from the University of North Carolina and taugt for 5 years before the kids. I have just gone back to work part time teaching preschool at FUMC in Opelika. The little one goes with me to work so that has been the big plus.
I can't wait to see you. I missed the 10 so I can't wait to catch up with you all.

Stites Whatley

I moved back to Opelika/Auburn two years ago after finishing my ENTresidency in Memphis, TN. I married Adele Spears (from Auburn) who Imet in Birmingham while in medical school. We've been married now for7 yrs, and have 2 boys (Duncan, 2 and Stewart 2 weeks). I lookforward to seeing everyone in July.

More Updates & Reminders

1) If you plan on attending the reunion we MUST MUST MUST have an rsvp from you. Since we are using the leftover funds from the 10, we are only ordering food for those that rsvp. At $9 a pop, I need to have a good number. So if you do not rsvp and then show up that will leave less for your classmates! Here is who I have so far as having RSVPd: (If you did and your name is not here, please let me know!!)

Natosha Butler Rivers + 1
Christen Hathaway
Tiffany Kennedy +1
Daffany Kennedy +1
Lashun Lockhart Fields +1
Chris Duncan +1
Chad Moore
Jennifer Strickland Marko +1
Emmie Tippett Sellers
David Sellers
Leigh Abernathy +1
Jason Nichols +1
Amy Jenkins Schaffer
Merry Jones +1
Laura Gilliland Dunlap
Michelle Metzger Vance
Amy Gayler
Tyree Melton +1
Shonta Johnson Lowe +1
Sharelle Edwards +1
Tyvoria Williams +1
Jenni Day
Shannetta Gibson
Emily Awbrey Fields +1
Tamika Jones +1
Ray Matchen +1
Demetre Wayne Reese +1
Kirsten Whatley Shriner +1
Andy Crouse
Leigh Jacobsen Crouse
Lynette Hinton Boone +1
Brandy Hilyer +1
Jenny McMurray
Michael Roberts +1
Calvin Johnson
Heather Hope Weston +1
Dawn Floyd +1
Dawn Denson
Bryan Primm +1
Scott Hinkle +1
Kaponia Ray Holloway +1
Christi Daugherty Bradley +1
2) We will be having music at the reunion, but it will be "home grown" so if you have a song request that you would like to hear, you better request it now, because if you don't you may be listening to the Electric Slide all night!! We will be playing the music on classmate's private property, so we will not be having "multiple DJs". In other words, you break it, you buy it!!

3) The food for the evening will be Chuck's AND JimBob's!!! Quoting one of our classmates "That sounds like a little slice of heaven!"

4) Along with the other classmates listed in the previous posts with returned mail we have some new additions. So if you know the address for any of these, please let me know!

Shanita Goodwin
Erica Heard
Tonya Brown Tarbert

I hope you all are getting excited!!! Please let me know if you have any questions!!

Return To Sender

Last week I sent out over 180 invitations to our reunion and I had over 30 returned. I'd say that's not so bad after 5 years!! So thank you for keeping me up to date on your whereabouts!! I am going to list the names of those that where returned to me. So if you have any current info. on these folks or it is YOU, then please let me know asap so that I can get an invite out to them!!!
Marcy Johnson Clark
Scott Freeman
Tabiatha Robinson
Jenny McMurray Key
Bruce Shelton
Andy Sumner
Reed Aston
Karen Robinson
Gwen Harris
Natosha Butler
Cornelius and Kawana Black Pink
Thomas Fenn
Andy and Leigh Jacobsen Crouse
Kelly Johnson Allen
Heather Hope Weston
Elliott Grace
Kit Voit
Shannon Gunter
Callie Pugh Lindsey
Garrett Grace
Amy Whitlow
Tia Deneal
Dawn Denson
Brian Barrett
Larry Baker
Colandra Lynn
Kwesi Marshall
Kevin Brown
Shawn Broach
Holli Parker
Marty and Ashley McGill Haywood
Jason Gillespi
Aleisha Lockhart
Eric Riddle
Joseph Vickery

So if you know the whereabouts of any of these folks or if it is you please give me your info. asap!

A couple of things about the reunion:

• First the cost is FREE!! Because of the leftover money from the 10 yr. reunion, we are able to absorb the cost!
• Second, because this reunion is a smaller reunion compared to our 10, we are making this an "adults only" event. When we do our twenty we will have an event planned where we can all show off our kids!
• And most important if you have not RSVPd, by July 12th, I am going to assume you are not coming, but I would like YOUR UPDATED INFORMATION!!! I have received quite a few emails that people will be there and I think we are going to have a great time!! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me!!

msmvance@bellsouth.net

Paige Lindsey Hiett

Hello all. Frank and I have been married for 13 years and we have 2 children. Lindsey is 10 and Will is 8. It took me 15 years, but I finally graduated from college this year. I got a degree in Radiology and I am in the x-ray department in an orthopedic clinic at East Alabama Medical Center here in Opelika. Frank works for a company based in Auburn that sells headsets to football teams. He travels a good bit, but we have never left Opelika. Look forward to seeing everyone in July.

Clint Smith

Hi folks,
Hard to believe that we graduated prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, the baseball strike, Forrest Gump was released, Windows 95 was unveiled, and the OJ Simpson case dazzled us… If you weren’t feeling old enough already, certainly this information helps!
My wife (Brande of Huntsville, AL) and I have been married for 10 years (and together another 4 or 5 prior), and are currently living in Birmingham, AL. I work for InterCall (if you’ve sat on a conference call, there’s a good chance it was hosted by us), and just celebrated my 10th year there under various positions. The latest is managing a team of Sales Engineers out of Louisville, Colorado (where I happen to be writing this).
We did a few years living in Columbus, GA after Auburn (where we both attended) before moving to Chicago (where I’d always wanted to live) until the birth of our daughter, Madison, in 2005. The clock started ticking on my end of the deal – once we had a baby we had to move back south… So we moved back to Birmingham, almost exactly between our respective parents. I still get back to Chicago every chance I get (even to see Adam Hood playing his debut there last year at Joe’s, home of the Chicago AU club).
I spend all of my free time playing golf (I live on Greystone’s Founders course, so if you’re ever in the area, look me up and we’ll play), with a little work thrown in here and there for good measure and to keep the lights on. Brande recently ‘retired’ from 10 years of service at TSYS in Columbus to be a full time stay-at-home mom to Madison, and we’re planning to try to have another baby next year.
Hope you’re all doing well.

Ivey Banks Murdock

Ivey Banks Murdock here! It makes me sad to say that I won’t be home to Opelika for this year’s reunion but I’m counting on being back for 20th! Hard to believe that it was 15 years ago when I moved 15 minutes away from my doorstep to my dorm room at Auburn where I went on to meet my husband (Brian Murdock). After graduating from Auburn, Brian and I were married, we moved to Nashville, Tennessee where we have been living for 10 years. I worked in Alumni and Development at Vanderbilt University but “retired” to be a stay at home mom when Banks was born. Brian is a Senior Project Manager for American Constructors.

At this moment I’m in the kitchen starting dinner for my family while Banks (6 years) and Sally (4 years) watch Pet Star on Animal Planet and baby Ridge (16 months) tries to eat crayons. I can’t pull myself away from the computer with Square Dance rap playing!

Banks returned on Sunday from a week in Opelika and I am so jealous I didn’t get to go as well! My parents are still in Opelika and so I do get back a couple of times a year. Unfortunately, it won’t be the weekend of the Reunion--- Brian has a work trip that takes us to Pebble Beach, California. I’ll be thinking of you all and want to hear stories about your time together!!