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2007 Baker River School Reunion - Deerfield, MA

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16 June 2008- 8:46 am EDT

2008 BRS Reunion Cancelled
The reunion in August has been officially cancelled. After last year's very successful gathering, there just was not enough interest or organizational energy to make it happen. Most of the suggestions seem to be to think about having a reunion every 2-3 years.

Thanks to Bruce Harris for another generous contribution to the BRS website which paid for two more years of website hosting.

21 April 2008- 10:30 am EDT

Letter from Betsy - "Thinking of You"
Many of you may have received this by email, but I'm posted for all to read.

Dear friends - I’m thinking about all of you especially today, because this afternoon, I took the time to view the DVD Will made for us of our reunion last August. There you all are laughing with each other, reminiscing, sharing and talking opening in “morning meeting” (Saturday morning of reunion) about your lives and what has taken place for each of you on your journey post BRS. For some the journey has not been easy, for others, good mixed in with the bad. You all have your stories... (more)

19 January 2008- 2:10 pm EST

Pictures of Doug Fontein and family are now posted on the People page, and special thanks to Wil Catlin for his donation in support of this website!

9 January 2008- 1:08 pm EST

BRS Reunion 2008: August 22-24, 2008 (Cancelled)
The reunion will once again be at Woolman Hill Conference Center, Deerfield, MA. Please help get things going by pre-registering and sending a deposit to Georgia (see form). If you would like to help think about and plan the reunion. Please join the BRSTalk list at Yahoo.

Facebook Group for Baker River School
I've started a Facebook Group for Baker River School for anyone who likes to use Facebook. I've also requested a Facebook "Network" for BRS which is the normal way that schools and organizations are listed.

17 October 2007- 2:27pm EDT

Peter Birckhead has joined us from North Carolina with pictures of his family.

17 September 2007- 11:17 am EDT

Lots of news today:

• BRS Reunion 2008: We are "penciled in" at Woolman Hill for the weekend of August 22-24, 2008, so mark you calendars!
• The DVD of Saturday morning, mentioned in the email is currently on hold pending clarification about whether it should be made available and to whom. My apologies for not checking with people or realizing that some people might not wish to have it made available...
• I've also posted a short video of Peter Fisher demonstrating how to eat a "no calorie cookie". Thanks to Nancy Jessup for being quick with her camera! Enjoy!

14 September 2007- 11:39am EDT

We have a new posting from Mike Jackson about his life since BRS. Thanks Mike!

7 September 2007- 10:41 pm EDT

I've just uploaded three Audio files from the Reunion in MP3 format so you can play them in iTunes or your favorite audio player. They include a set of songs from Tammy Marengo, a sing-a-long time with Sam Bergquist and Peter Fisher explaining how to burn as many calories eating a cookie as it contains.

The BRS SmugMug photo galleries are filling up with pictures from the Reunion. Macy has been working on editing the galleries and adding titles and comments, but you are welcome to add comments too. SmugMug has the full resolution images of all the pictures we've received as well as of the scans of all the photos shown here on this site from Years 1-5 and past reunions. You can order high-quality prints or download the images and print your own.

Planning for the 2008 Reunion has already begun. We are presuming to hold it in the same location around the same time. Dates have not yet been confirmed but we'll let you know soon! If you are interested in helping plan, please join the BRSTalk Google Group and express your interest or contact one of the people who worked on it this year. If you need an invitation to join the Google Group, just go to the BRSTalk home page and request one.

27 August 2007- 4:13 pm

Thanks to Bruce "Beeg" Harris for his very generous contribution towards support of the website. At Macy's suggestion we are subscribing to smugmug.com for their excellent picture hosting which allows for upload of high resolution versions of photos as well as the purchase of prints. We slowly adding and arranging picturees as we go. Feel free to add and edit captions to the photos that are arleady there. Go to http://brs.smugmug.com.

27 August 2007- 4:13 pm

I've started to add pictures from the Reunion to the BRS People Page along with new listings including Aldona Shumway, Betsy True and Anne True. I'll do a full posting of all my Reunion pictures soon, but I encourage anyone who has pictures from the Reunion to send them to me. I'd like to have the full size original images if at all possible (not scaled down) and those tend to be fairly large, so my suggestion is that you either burn them to a CD and mail them (see address at left) or if you know how, put them into a folder and Zip them. Then use YouSendIt.com a very reliable service that allows you to send attachments up to 100Mb for free. If you need to know what email address to use, send me a line.

26 August 2007- 4:56 pm

The BRS 2007 Reunion is over but it is abundantly clear that the spirit lives on and is being carried forward in people's lives. There is much to tell and show and I'm hoping to post pictures, audio, and eventually some video clips soon. Please check back in the next day or two!

Thanks to Marty Sartwell, Mike Jackson and Michelle (Gold) Fava for their recent contributions to support this website!

23 August 2007- 9:50 pm

The Reunion begins tomorrow with people coming in from all over including some last minute entries. It's not too late to come if you want to just let us know so we can plan bedding. I'll post pictures as soon a I can.

Many new entries on the People page including: Mike Jackson, Tamelyn Smith, Ene Osteraas, Carol Holmes, John Gans

9 June 2007- 1:18pm

Added picture and weblink for Chet Keefe and added revised text for Georgia's entry.

Reunion planning is moving ahead: we had a fun and productive conference call last night with Betsy, Bruce, Wil C, Will L, Georgia, Rebecca and Macy to make plans. A flyer will soon be sent out to everyone we have an address for and the website and registration page will be updated soon with additional info.

16 May 2007- 7:20pm

New update from Kendra Axon and the first "Year 2" picture from Wil Catlin. Thanks to Kendra for her financial support of this website!

9 May 2007- 2:37pm

New updates from Michele Gold Fava and Chris Maynard (as reported by Bruce)

30 October 2006 - 9:39 pm

Just posted: a nice update and some great pictures from Maria Van Liew and a picture of Peter Fisher and "Oreo" from Nancy Jessup.

2 October 2006 - 11:21am

Ash Eames has sent us a note from Wentworth and we have some new pictures from Henley (KT) Eames to go with her update. And, Google has now indexed the site, so anyone doing a search should find it easily!

21 September 2006 - 11:48am

We now have a Google Group discussion area. If I already had your email, you should have received an invitation. If not, just go to the BRSTalk home page and request one.

17 September 2006 - 2:53pm

Macy Coffey has sent us a note from Moscow, Russia where he is currently living.

14 September 2006 - 2:23pm

BakerRiverSchool.org is now live! To help pay the annual fees for domain registration and hosting, please click the button below and contribute via PayPal or credit/debit card. Thanks to Nancy Jessup, Wil Catlin, Macy Coffey, Sam Bergquist and Maria Van Liew for their financial support!

13 September 2006 - 11:09pm