Ambassador College Pasadena Reunion - the First
30 Years!
To celebrate our unique experiences and
friendships as AC students
Who: Students who attended AC Pasadena anytime
between 1947 & June 1977
When: Friday, February 27 - Monday, March 2,
2015
Where: Pasadena Hilton Hotel
The AC Pasadena Reunion Committee
is pleased to announce the upcoming Reunion of students from the first thirty
years of the Ambassador College Pasadena campus. It will take place Friday,
February 27, 2015, through Monday, March 2, 2015, at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel,
only one mile from the campus.
For those of you who have not
been back since your college days, you will be pleased that the main campus
still looks essentially the same, with most of our iconic structures and
landscaping still intact. The only major losses at this time are the Fine Arts
& Science classroom structures and the Library. Nevertheless, a stroll from
Ambassador Hall past Terrace Villa to Mayfair still yields the same stunning
views of sloping lawns, huge trees, streams, formal gardens, and the lower
campus structures, including the Auditorium.
Pasadena has changed for the
better, including "Old Town," which is now vibrant - even
"trendy" - the center of night-life in the San Gabriel Valley. You
can still see the Rose Bowl (site of one AC year-end track meet), The
Huntington (Gardens/Library/Art Museum - much expanded and improved), Caltech,
the Norton Simon Art Museum, the revitalized Civic Auditorium/City Hall
quadrant, JPL, and much, much more.
Our Committee currently has six folks
(and looking for more!) who are planning this very special weekend. There will
be a full range of activities, including visits to the former Ambassador
College campus - and, most importantly, the opportunity to become reacquainted
with friends from your college years! All weekend at the Hilton there
will be a dedicated Hospitality Room, replete with memorabilia such as Envoys,
Portfolios, and pictures, as well as plenty of chairs for informal gathering,
chatting, and catching up on the ensuing decades since we last saw each other.
In February 2013, sixty-five
met in Las Vegas for the first-ever multi-day AC Pasadena Reunion. The
idea had begun with Joe Bauer and Bill Hughes 20 months earlier.
Although, sadly, Joe died before the actual event, Bill went on to
organize an enjoyable and successful reunion. At the conclusion, there was
enthusiastic support for an expanded reunion two years hence in Pasadena - and
Bob Gerringer and Carol Stephenson Taylor volunteered to coordinate that
effort.
The Pasadena Hilton (168 S. Los
Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101) has set aside a limited number of rooms at a
discounted rate of $125 plus tax for up to two people per night (additional $10
plus tax each for a third or fourth person). Penalty-free cancellation is allowed
up to 24 hours before arrival, so there is no risk in reserving now, which will
also help us determine if additional rooms need be set aside. To book your room
at the special rate, you will need to contact the Pasadena Hilton directly. You
can email Stephanie Vasquez at svasquez@hiltonpasadena.com or speak to
anyone at 626-584-3208, or leave a voice-mail. In your email or
voice-mail, mention the 'Ambassador Reunion', and provide your name, check-in
and check-out dates, and phone number.
Also, please forward this email to other
former AC Pasadena students from this era, and/or send us their names and email
addresses, and, if possible, maiden names and years attended. [Please note: all email addresses will
be kept strictly confidential, only accessible by a subset of
the Reunion Committee.] We now have over 450 email addresses; however, we need
many more to reach everyone from those thirty years. We do not want anyone left out!
We have created a survey which
will provide us a preview of the potential number of attendees; this data is vital for our planning
efforts, so please Click Here
to take the survey. Thank you in advance for timely responses to the
survey and for forwarding and/or sending other students' contact info to us.
Please take a look at our website
www.ACPasadenaReunion.com.
Much more information and features will be forthcoming between now and the
Reunion in 2015, however, in the meantime, if you have any questions or
comments, please contact us at info@ACPasadenaReunion.com
We really hope to see you all in
2015.
Warmest regards,
Bob Gerringer (bob@ACPasadenaReunion.com)
and
Carol Stephenson Taylor (carol@ACPasadenaReunion.com)
Reunion Committee members and
year each began attending AC:
Cledice Decker (1959)
Bob Gerringer (1967)
Jean (Ehlert) Updegraff (1964)
Roger
Hoffman (1969)
Carol (Stephenson) Taylor (1966)
Margaret (Dill) Zola (1970)
