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The Mount Vernon High School motto
"Esse non-vederi" - "To be, not to seem"
Alma Mater
"Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, we sing to thee,
Your spirit and honor, humble and free.
Our praise to thee we sing: Your bells of truth shall ring.
Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, praises to thee we sing."
School colors - Maroon and Gray | Sports teams - The Majors | Sports mascot - Major Movern
Our working motto - "To Form a More Perfect Reunion"
NEWS YOU CAN USE
RSVPers and RSVP wannabees - ABSOLUTELY DO THIS NOW!
PLEASE DO refer to the 'YOUR! RSVP' page from the left-side site index frame.
Information there will hopefully help us prevent some mis-communications and unexpected foul-ups
that have already occurred from tripping you up as well. - THANKS
As of the latest page update,
126 individuals (classmates / faculty / schoolmates / guests; combined) have RSVP confirmed, and are $FULLY PAID$
to attend our 50th reunion mid-day picnic at Ft. Hunt Park and / or
our evening banquet at the Sheraton Suites in Alexandria, Virginia on Saturday, June 12, 2010.
Of those 126 individuals, 111 will attend our banquet (15 are picnic only); 27 more alumni have 'promised' for a total of 138.
Given our current guest ratio (44.8%), we estimate that adds another 12, for a projected 150 banquet attendance.
Since we have a banquet seating maximum of 160, only 10 seats remain.
The kicker is, there are WAY more RSVPs than that which were mailed but have not responded in any way.
Assuming they all 'woke up at the switch' and replied positively, we would be forced to deny registrations en masse.
This has been the inevitable consequence of continued respondant delay;
we have been forced to go with a 'first come, first served' policy in the face of massive RSVP default.
That is why it is imperative that if you haven't returned your RSVP yet,
or, want to attend but never received an RSVP, you need ACT NOW OR LOSE OUT.
Assuming the guest ratio remains constant for any additional RSVP mailings,
we can only safely mail another 6 or so! without over-booking.
If you have been intending to respond but STILL have not, although our picnic space is open-ended,
please understand that unless your attendance choice is 'PICNIC ONLY',
we will have to return your RSVP checks when these 10 banquet seats are gone.
PLEASE ACT NOW!!!
GLITCH Department -
1. Didn't receive your RSVP packet? You WON'T! until you provide us with your current postal address.
Check your entry on your '19nn Track' page. Please forward corrections ASAP or miss out.
2. Our original Ft. Hunt picnic area was aced out from under us; we have contracted for areas C-002 and C-003 instead.
Details about the park and directions thereto can be found on our interactive 'Maps/Weather' page.
3. Sheraton Suites is running out of reduced rate rooms. They can give you this rate only until they have otherwise rented all thier rooms.
If you want to take advantage, the time is NOW! 1-800-325-3535.
4. To those who have promised to provide contact lists and or Surveyor loaners... We needed them YESTERDAY! PLEASE FORWARD!!!
SITE updates -
As well as the already mentioned 'Maps/Weather' page, substantial additions have been made to the 'Photos' pages and more are planned.
The 'Synopsis50' page has been added as an attempt to consolidate very general info - details available on other pages.
The 'BioPages50' page is under construction with data from your returned RSVP biographical information forms.
Since this is a grunt transcription effort and we have been known to make okayzhunol mizzsteakes,
PLEASE check yours for accuracy because they will be printed soon.
Buff up! Get to the attic and find your precious Surveyor yearbook. The first MVHS class of the sixties is on the move!
WHEN: We are GO! for our 50th reunion on Saturday, June 12. 2010.
This will be a multi-class: 1955-1965 invited (until we run out of banquet seats [max=160!]), multi-event, pretty much all-day reunion.
WHERE: We will have:
1) A midday (mid-AM / mid-PM) 'rain or shine' catered picnic under a covered pavilion C-003 at Ft. Hunt Park,
9 AM-ish to whenever. Our caterer will be serving 11:00 AM to 2 PM-ish.
If you can't make our later event in Alexandria, you can hang out at the picnic pavilion until 6 PM.
And yes, there are permanent rest rooms available right there adjacent to the picnic grounds.
Followed by:
2) An evening reception and dinner dance at our banquet facility, Sheraton Suites in Old Town, Alexandria.
Free parking for overnight hotel guests and $10 otherwise.
WHAT: We have contracted for the usual:
Picnic caterer - No hidden charges, just come and pig out all day.
Photographer - Will take 2 group photos, one for 1960 alumni, one for our combined sister classes (before dinner).
Videographer - Will produce a 2-hour DVD combining the best moments from both events.
Both photos and videos will be mailed post-reunion to those who placed an order.
Disc Jockey - 6:30 PM to 11:30 PM.
Name tags and alumni booklets (free to attendees) can be picked up at either event.
Alumni booklets will be distributed free to attendees or mailed post-reunion to those who placed an order.
In lieu of standard door prizes (where a few get a lot), we've opted for a method where prizes are smaller but there are lots more of them.
There will be an open-book quick quiz shout-out game (we will place you on your honor) with quick $ for winners,
so study up on your Surveyors and keep your alumni booklets handy!
We will try to be brief so others can get a shot at the mike. Something to say? Now's the time!
COST: Picnic alone = $35.00 / attendee
Banquet alone = $100.00 / attendee
Both events, combined rate = $125.00 / attendee
CASH BAR
DRESS: As dressy as we can stand it (no, really, be comfortable!)
The Mount Vernon High School (VA) Class of 1960 maintains its own dedicated Internet web site at:
http://www.mvhs-1960.com. [Note the 'dash', it is really there!]
Our site is updated daily with new contact information, photos, videos and general information.
It serves as our public database of record for all updates, including contact information,
the postal component of which is VITAL (read REQUIRED) for invitational purposes.
To provide a proper financial auditing trail, calculate some great statistics for our alumni booklet,
and preserve our general record-keeping sanity, we are paperwork oriented this time around -
there can be no internet, telephone, email or self-invitations or at-the-door surprises, EVER! - postal RSVP packet only.
Importantly, if you want to receive your postal RSVP invitation -
it is basically up to you to pro-actively assure us that your postal address is correct.
If you have not already done so, please visit us at our site and check the information we have recorded for you,
by clicking on one of the '19nn Track' pages from the Site Index.
If you have revisions, *PLEASE* email the Site Guy, Darryl W. Dockins.
Many of our postal entries are left over from or 40th reunion in 2000.
Since the current site was re-created from the ashes, or cloned from, the original web site,
much of that information has become obsolete over the last decade and is untrustworthy.
We allowed the older contact information carry through onto the new site because it was all we had to go on.
At this late date (a decade later!), we are unable to distinguish which entries are still current and which are not.
So... EVEN IF your entry is complete and correct, if it does NOT have a recently dated (2008-2010) annotation note,
you need to pro-actively touch base with us, even if only to re-corroborate your contact data.
Postage costing as it does these days, and us being on a tight budget... no annotation, no invitation!
If we holler, we need to hear ALL of the echoes come back!
Otherwise, we continue to spend pointless time looking for you!
IMPORTANT - As of this date, we have mailed ALL the RSVPs for which we have verified postal addresses.
If you want to attend but haven't seen your RSVP packet arrive in the mail, IT WON'T!...
until we receive feedback from you. People are signing up and time is getting shorter to act!
SEE YOU SOON!!!
THE VERY LATEST FROM OUR 50th REUNION COMMITTEE
Our reunion date, Saturday, June 12, 2010, has been finalized with our primary vendors;
for our late morning - early afternoon picnic at Ft. Hunt Park, Clever Catering;
for our evening banquet dinner dance; Sheraton Suites in Old Town Alexandria.
Arrangements with additional vendors (disc jockey, photographer and videographer) have also been finalized.
Projects in process - name tags, alumni booklets, table decorations, memorabilia shipping / holding, internet access.
Copies of the Sheraton and other contracts are viewable on the 'Contracts' page from the Site Index.
Printable RSVP documents are available from the 'Forms' page for those who misplaced their RSVP packet.
Information will be posted on this site and known emails will be advised as fine-tuned details resolve.
The first 'wave' of postal RSVPs to 1960 graduates (first, of course) were mailed on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.
We have mailed out 145 RSVPs to 1960 alumni, of which, in almost six months, 43 have not responded in any way.
The second 'wave' of postal RSVPs to +5/-5 (1955-1965) graduates were mailed on Saturday, September 19, 2009.
We have mailed out 254 RSVPs to sister class alumni, of which 120 have likewise not responded.
We have about 126 attendees lined up to date (that includes guests), with 'promises' for about 27 additional (also including guests).
Due to the disappointingly lax turnout from the Class of 1960 despite repeated pleas for support, and in order to survive financially,
we have been accepting banquet RSVPs for all of our outlying sister classes (1955 - 1965) en masse.
At this point, we have committed to vendor expenditures which due to glacial response has kept us in constant red ink.
Interest is building within those classes, mainly the 'sixties', and we need to accept RSVPs on a first come, first served basis.
We are, of course, concerned that this means that 1960 late-comers may become frozen out of their own reunion
(we have an absolute legal maximum of seats in the banquet hall), but... they have been warned multiple times.
We continue to search for (and ask your help) in identifying our lost ones.
In order to restrict postage costs, invitations can be sent to RECENTLY VERIFIED postal addresses ONLY.
There can be no telephone or e-invitations, EVER. We need the paperwork to keep us sane!
So... If you haven't already, check your entry on the appropriate '19nn Track' page, and, EVEN IF CORRECT!,
if there is no recently dated postal verification note for you, please email us with your corrections.
This site is not interactive - you can't modify your own entry.
No recently verified (2008-2009) postal, no invitation, no exceptions! THANK YOU.
First receipts 07/16/2009. We are on our way!
You may view our growing list of paid attendees by clicking the 'Attendance50' page from our Site Index.
Printable forms have been made available on the 'Forms' page for those who 'blew' their invitational packet.
OK... we didn't EVER want to ask for help, but over and above any costs related to our forthcoming 50th reunion,
is does cost us to keep this site operational, and since it's inception in October, 2008, has already piled up on us.
The web site we created for our 40th in 2000 was more limited, but at least it was free because we used our own ISP;
but this commercial site with all its space and add-on perks costs every month, relentlessly, both before and after our reunion.
Just $12 a year from just ONE HALF of 1% of our listed schoolmates would guarantee uninterrupted operation!
If you like what you see here and respect our efforts, let alone our ongong costs, won't you consider chipping in a little ?
Click on this clever little button and you are good to go. Your credit card or existing PayPal account will do nicely.
We are partial to high digits and lots of zeros to the left of the decimal point, but ANYTHING you can spare is helpful.
We will keep track of your donations and remind you if we think you are donating too much!
IMPORTANT!
The funds contributed here support the web site ALONE on a long-term, post-reunion basis
and are separate from funds collected for our current 50th reunion effort.
RSVP reunion funds are never used to support this site, so a mechanism was needed to help keep the site in operation.
THANKS!
On behalf of all the classes represented on this site, THANK YOU in advance for your thoughtful consideration.
These donors have made it possible to keep the site going awhile longer (mouse over to stop the scroll) :
Our list of supporters can also be viewed on the 'Contributors' page from the Site Index.
We understand 1959's 50th reunion in Alexandria 09/19/2009 was a smash hit,
with an attendance of about 80 classmates / schoolmates.
CONGRATULATIONS to all! We can only hope to be as successful!
NOTICE
This site is under chronic reconstruction, being converted from it's original,
"We are planning our 40th in 2000" tenor to, "We had our 40th, now let's plan our 50th in 2010".
If you previously established bookmarks for the now obsolete 2000 site, they will not function as of 10/18/2008.
However, the address of this home page (www.mvhs-1960.com) is now stable, so you may safely add bookmarks.
Since this web site is being resurrected using the code for the year 2000 40th reunion web site,
for now the pages indicated in the Site Index frames may present a mix of 40th / 50th reunion data.
'50th REUNION' selections are (relatively) cleaned up or brand new pages;
'40th REUNION' selections are historical and have been included here as reference sources.
Please forgive the rough 'row and column' look and feel of this site;
since our FIRST PRIORITY is classmate location, pretty bell and whistle eye candy will have to wait!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE
Get to the attic and drag out that old yearbook. Buff up!
Prepare yourself for the 50th memorable monster semi-century!?
mega-bash Reunion with the first Mount Vernon High School (VA) class of the Sixties!
YOU CAN HELP!
If you are an alumnus and have not already done so,
please check your entry on your appropriate graduating year '19nn Track' page from the Site Index.
If your entry does not contain a pro-active recent (2008 - 2010) re-verification note,
*DO* email the Site Guy or anyone on the 50th Reunion Committee ASAP to confirm or correct.
*PLEASE*, PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!
Help us get this contact mess straightened out. We are begging.
EVEN IF your data looks correct, if it does NOT have a RECENT CORROBORATION date, we don't KNOW that!
If we holler, we need to hear *ALL* of the echoes come back in order to be sure!
Otherwise, exasperated classmate researchers will continue to spend pointless time looking for you!
An important and useful FREE site we recommend to check information / reunions
for ALL MVHSnnnn classes is the MVGrads Alumni Registry [VA].
This separate but allied site is the only site devoted exclusively
to the alumni and faculty of Mount Vernon High School [VA] ,
from its first graduating class (Class of 1940) [1939-1940 school year] through the present.
Legal Gibberish (with translations)
This site was re-created from the ashes of the MVHS1960 (VA) 2000 40th Reunion web site.
It was placed in operation 10/18/2008 on an 'UNDER CONSTRUCTION' basis
and is maintained as a labor of friendship by the Site Guy, MVHS1960 (VA) alumnus.
We do not accept advertising and everything here is available without charge.
Translation: You are welcome to 'borrow' from this site, including source code, and use it as your own.
All photos have been voluntarily contributed. All other data about people is of a vital statistic nature.
Location data is displayed for all persons unless individual permission is specifically denied (and some are).
Notwithstanding the public domain status of our contact data, if you do not want it here, we will make it disappear!
We do the best we can to keep track of and respect the wants of hundreds of people, but myzzsteayckes are sometimes made.
Translation: Play nice, please don't sue us; phone / email / smail us - WHATEVER it is, we will fix it
ASAP.
This site is not interactive. If you need information altered here, please email the Site Guy.
Please do NOT confuse us with the MVGrads Alumni Registry [VA], an allied but SEPARATE site.
The 3 (three) MVHS oriented web sites;
1. Fairfax County Public Schools (MVHS (VA)),
2. MVGrads Alumni Registry [VA] (MVGrads Alumni Registry),
3. [and this site],
are independently run and although their subject matter necessarily overlaps in various areas,
have no official association with one another.
BOOKMARK this site and check back for information about the MVHS (VA) Class of 1960
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