This week, I’ve been urged to remind folks of a couple of upcoming events which may have gotten lost in the leaf raking and other spring household chores.
Windham High School’s Alumni Association will hold their annual banquet on Saturday, May 14 at the Middle School cafeteria. More than 600 newsletters with information about this have been mailed to anyone who has ever paid their dues and joined the association. Several people have called and reported they have not received their notice and we have heard from the secretary and treasurer that lots of the letters have been returned due to incorrect addresses – some caused by the change necessitated in the E911 state-wide program.
So – this is for all of you who never updated your mailing address and for those who may never have joined the association. If you would like to attend the banquet (roast pork dinner) please send a card to Tammy Haskell, Treasurer, 264 Gray Road, Windham, Maine 04062 with your payment of $10 per person. The deadline is May 7.
If you have never joined the Alumni Association, your name is not on the list and you won’t automatically receive a newsletter. If you’d like to join, the dues are $10 for a lifetime membership and you will be notified annually when the banquet is planned.
In honor of our military, this year’s banquet will have a patriotic theme. Social hour is from 3-6 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m. and a business meeting. There will be raffles, displays and more. And as always this will be a great time.
The Alumni Association is the oldest organization in Windham and provides two scholarships each year to graduating seniors – one of them is via the Pleasant River Grange’s gift to the association several years ago.
For more information on the Alumni association, contact Bob Miele, President or Sue Nichols, Vice President or attend the next meeting on Monday, May 2 at 7 p.m. in the Aikins annex at town hall.
This past week we spent several hours visiting with folks from California who were here seeking information about their ancestors and where they were buried. This isn’t as difficult as it would have been a dozen years ago. Thanks to many volunteers who went into all of Windham’s cemeteries and copied gravestones, the Windham Historical Society has this information posted on the internet. Check ftp://rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/cumberland/ – you’ll also find other Cumberland County cemetery inscriptions here, but Windham has the most. Lorraine and Prof. Franklin Hodges were among the volunteers and also they ‘uploaded’ the data (copying each and every entry) onto the ‘Web’.
The Historical Society will be meeting on Monday, April 25 at 7 p.m. for an organizational session and business update. We’ll be planning displays and when the facilities will be open to the public. As always, you don’t need to be a member to attend – the public is encouraged to get involved. Meeting is at the former town house, the brick building next to the superintendent’s building on Windham Center Road.
Sounds like a full plate to me! I might not even need to rake any leaves! See you next week.
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