If you haven’t seen this warning yet, note that thieves can peer through the windshield of your car and copy the VIN #. If you have the VIN# you can call the car dealer and they will make a duplicate key. The thief doesn’t have to break in, and for a few dollars can get a copy of your key, and then when you are parked he can drive your car to the nearest chop shop.
Marjorie Lemster USS Monssen
Tanks for the heads up!
Between 2001 and 2010, I have attended 10 ConFAMs©
wearing
any one of three hats: Destroyer Leader Association, Reunion Planner Destroyer Escort Sailors Association-Old Dominion Chapter, President & Meeting Planner US Naval Training Center Bainbridge, Reunion Committee. I also attended the WorkFAM©
in Waterloo, Iowa.
Today I have finished negotiating and signed a contract for the Destroyer Leader Association 2011 Reunion in Northern Kentucky at the Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport Hotel. When I return home this week end, I will send you a copy for consideration in issuing to me a certificate as a Certified Military Reunion Planner.
This contract incorporates about everything that you have taught at the ConFAMs©
and WorkFAMs©
I thank you very much for the knowledge that you have passed on to me. Over the years, I have signed 10 reunion contracts for DESA-ODC and this is my sixth contract for the DLA.
Walter Alexander Destroyer Leader Association
The USS Holder (DE-401/DDE/DD- 819) has just completed its 33rd annual reunion. This year we chose Chicago and specifically Lake County to the north of the City because of the close proximity to Great Lakes where we attended a moving and
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patriotic recruit graduation. We correctly depended on the Lake County CVB to offer expert guidance in providing lodging, transportation and tour options. We chose the very military reunion friendly Deerfield Marriott Suites as it was close to the Interstates and mass transit rail systems. Using the CVB we found and used very helpful bus companies to visit local attractions including guided tours of Chicago, Navy Pier and the beautiful Botanical Gardens. We had a great time. We still plan and execute our own reunions and as usual we find your articles, advice and guidance to be ‘right on’. Thanks
Rob Adams President USS Holder Association
I have been a reunion planner for eleven years. Your organization, The Reunion Friendly Network, has been and is probably the source of the three most important factors in our reunions’ success.
First, your organization made the hospitality industry aware that military reunions were valuable customers and something that they wanted to support. Second, the RFN ConFAMs©
Six days before our event, they sent a BEO that stated we were to be in a different room which had a capacity of only 40 people. I learned that one of the sales persons had given the original room to another group!
What weight does my contract have? Do I have any legal recourse?
How did you agree to the switch - in writing? If so what does it actually say? What does your contract say? Have you kept records? Have you confronted the management?
The following day, the hotel caved and has given us the original room, after I. agreed to slip the reunion date by two weeks. In return they provided numerous incentives in writing including a statement that every portion of the previous contract remained in force. It was signed by the General Manager. It was confirmed by an email from the Sales Manager.
We gave the hotel a copy of their “function space assignment log” putting us in the entire room and signed by their sales manager AND a copy of the email.
lessons about contracts. And third, the RFN ConFAMs©
taught me important bring me into
direct contact with the hospitality industry representatives and allow me to investigate area hotels and attractions in a simple, concise four day event.
Without all this support from RFN, we would be much less successful. Thanks for all you and you organization do for us. Stan Pollard, Director
USS Chivo Reunion Organization
Tank you for the recognition. Our mission for twenty years has been: to help military reunion planners with their reunions.
Edited for clarity & brevity.
I signed contract with the XXX Airport Hotel in 2010. The contract names the ballroom with a capacity of 175 for our banquet. In August, they started renovating that ballroom. The hotel suggested that we shuttle to another hotel, and I agreed.
We also keep a reunion book, as RFN told us to do at the ConFAMs©
.
I think it worked in our favor. We also included, as RFN suggested a; Walking Clause, a “No Change Penalties,” and a mutual Cancellation Clause in our contract. With all this documentation, and with those clauses in the contract, they had no choice except to comply or breach the contract, and pay us a huge penalty.
Thanks for all the training you have given us over the last 12 years. We still make mistakes, but we don’t do them a second time. Jerry King, Executive Director AE/AOE SAILORS Association
You had an article about providing alcohol to people at a reunion and the do’s and don’ts and how costly it can be. I have had a few arguments regarding giving alcohol away free to our group and would like to know if you still have that article around so I can show them how and why people are getting insurance to do this.
Jackie McIntyre, Tom & Brandy 42nd Mom Continues on page 30
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