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COLLINS 2009 REUNION

Contact your friends and make your plan - then call the hotel and sign up for a room. More info will be coming on the dinner shortly.






Friday: Reception, hospitality room open
Saturday All Day: Hospitality room open for you to use.
Saturday Night: Dinner
Sunday: Breakfast or Brunch and farewells

Remember to return to this blog to keep up with what is going on.

The reunion will be held in St. Louis, MO Friday, October 16, 2009 through Monday, October 19, 2009 at the Marriott Renaissance, St. Louis Hotel Airport, 9801 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, Mo 63134. The phone number for the hotel is (314) 429-1100, or toll free 1-888-340-2594. Their fax is (314)429-3466. We have agreed that we will block a certain group of Rooms for Fri, Sat and Sun nights. You must make your reservations yourself directly with the hotel. Take a tour of the hotel at: http://marriott.com/stlsa and you can make your reservations on line at that site. Use the Group Code COLCOLA. That should get you the rate and insure that you are properly registered.

We have reserved a limited block of rooms and the deadline for reservations is JULY 1, 2009. The early reservation date was set so that if we have more attendees, we will be able to secure more rooms. Make your room reservations today!!!! We have negotiated a room rate of $79 plus taxes per night. Be sure to tell the hotel when you make your reservations that is for the COLLINS 2009 REUNION.

Also, for those of you that may be attending from the Iowa location we have information concerning a bus for transportation to St. Louis if enough people are interested. Please see the bus posts on this blog for further details.

There are complimentary shuttles to and from Lambert International Airport/Metrolink. Parking is free to all reunion attendees.

Very shortly, we will have a form on the Blog Spot for you to make your reservation for the Banquet Dinner that is scheduled for Saturday night, October 17, 2009. This form will include the entrees and prices. You will be able to print this form off and mail with your deposit for the dinner. Please mail to: Collins 2009 Reunion, 1975 Litchfield Dr., Hiawatha, IA 52233. All checks are to be made out to: Collins 2009 Reunion. We must have received your reservations and deposit for the banquet by: July 1, 2009. This early date has a two -fold purpose. It will allow us to increase the order if we have more attendees plus the number one reason: We had to put a hefty deposit on the banquet and we need to know early.

Remember, this Blog Spot is you link to all information http://genav.blogspot.com and please feel free to pass it on to those that you think may be interested but may have not received the launch e-mail.

The Bus Option:
We are attempting to arrange a chartered bus for those in the CR area that would like that option. Here is the plan, if we can fill the bus with 50 people.

Round trip chartered bus transportation from Cedar Rapids to St. Louis will cost $55 per person. You will still be responsible for reserving dinner and Saturday night's hotel accommodations and will need to sign up for those items separately, the same as others that will travel on their own.

We plan to leave Cedar Rapids Saturday, October 17th around 6:30 - 7:30 AM. This would put us in St. Louis around 12:00 - 1:00 PM. Departure from St. Louis would be the following afternoon - Sunday the 18th. We plan to leave between 1:00 - 2:00 PM. Actual departure times will be made know later. Food is allowed the bus but no alcoholic beverages.

If you plan to take advantage of the bus service please send an email to TomPatBus@gmail.com stating your firm intention to do so. Once we hit or exceed the magic number of folks (50), each of you who have signed up will receive an email requesting payment. If we have more interested than we can accommodate, we will handle it on a first come, first served, based on when the checks arrive and are opened.

We need to receive 50 commitments by June 25, in order to lock in the bus. Because we have to pay for the bus up-front, payments will be non-refundable.

Photo Sites are Available for you to Upload your Pictures:

There are two photo sites associated with this one. They can be reached by clicking on them in the "Links" section of this page.

The first one is intended to host your photos from the 2006 reunion in Branson.

The second one is for you to share your historical pictures from your career at Collins. The archives on this site have a large number of other photos as well. Enjoy

Please feel free to download your photos to either or both sites in the "Links" area. Just follow the instructions on photo the sites. You may have to reduce the size of your pictures however. It's best if you make up an album and load it up once after you have selected and down-sized your photos.

In the past we controlled access to these sites but they are opened up now. We will monitor them and as long as we don't see any abuse by outsiders, we will leave them open.

If you would like to print this entire post, go to the Links section on the upper left side of this page and click on the link for the "Master 5/15/09 document to print". When you see the document on the new site, click "More" right above the body of the document and print it from there.

(5/27/09)