The Coffee Table Book
Some of you may ask. What is this CTB that we're talking about?
Several months ago, while discussing ideas on how we can get members of our high school class to participate in our Ruby Jubilee celebration in 2010, some of our classmates (Des, Myrna, Loily and Emi) came out with the idea of making a coffee table book (CTB). In the next class meeting, we decided to take this up as a class project.
Objectives
We hoped that in the process of putting the book together, we would touch base with classmates whom we had not heard from for a long time, and inform them of what's happening to members of our class. We would also get to know our classmates better, and get involved in a project where we could all work together, even if we are so far away from each other. And have fun doing it.
As we get in touch with old classmate, broken friendships can be renewed and old hurts can be healed. The output will be a book in a format which we can put on a coffee table, which will make us misty eyed when we thumb through it.
Ideas
None of us knew what it would be like, but here were some suggestions:
We'd devote a page or two to each classmate
An active classmate would look for or research on a non-active classmate
We shall include poems, short stories, pictures, recipes, etc.
We'll talk about "then" and "now"
We'll emphasize on what the person is, and not on what she does or has accomplished.
Timetable
By the end of 2005, we hope to have updated our class directory and identify who will take care of writing on whom
By the end of 2006, we shall have established contact with the person or persons we're in charge of, and more or less know what her page(s) shall include
By mid 2007, final drafts are done
The whole year of 2008 will be devoted to putting the book together, including artwork and editing
The book will go to print in 2009
in time for our homecoming in 2010.
As first assignments: Des would be local coordinator, while Myrna would be US Coordinator. Ampy, Dada and Vinchu were to update the directory, and Yoling would do the initial financials.
Des, Myrna and Loily started their creative juices running and started to write poems, Yoling did her research and figured out all we could afford would be a book with mostly black and white pages.
Ampy, Dada and I started updating our directory, and the rest of us started looking for our classmates.
Since then, after a long long time, we've "found" Yoly Batungbakal Roxas, June Torrejon Rufino, and Maggie Zialcita Tomas. Our egroup has grown to abour 30 members, and we have the email addresses of 60 classmates. Juanita Acosta Inton has answered our email and Yoly, Maggie, and Linda Barretto have joined our egroup. And we're only three months into the project (which we have five years to prepare for).
This blog was first meant to be a depository of all the things we hope to include in the book, but it shall also be the journal of our class as we anticipate our Ruby Jubilee.
Several months ago, while discussing ideas on how we can get members of our high school class to participate in our Ruby Jubilee celebration in 2010, some of our classmates (Des, Myrna, Loily and Emi) came out with the idea of making a coffee table book (CTB). In the next class meeting, we decided to take this up as a class project.
Objectives
We hoped that in the process of putting the book together, we would touch base with classmates whom we had not heard from for a long time, and inform them of what's happening to members of our class. We would also get to know our classmates better, and get involved in a project where we could all work together, even if we are so far away from each other. And have fun doing it.
As we get in touch with old classmate, broken friendships can be renewed and old hurts can be healed. The output will be a book in a format which we can put on a coffee table, which will make us misty eyed when we thumb through it.
Ideas
None of us knew what it would be like, but here were some suggestions:
We'd devote a page or two to each classmate
An active classmate would look for or research on a non-active classmate
We shall include poems, short stories, pictures, recipes, etc.
We'll talk about "then" and "now"
We'll emphasize on what the person is, and not on what she does or has accomplished.
Timetable
By the end of 2005, we hope to have updated our class directory and identify who will take care of writing on whom
By the end of 2006, we shall have established contact with the person or persons we're in charge of, and more or less know what her page(s) shall include
By mid 2007, final drafts are done
The whole year of 2008 will be devoted to putting the book together, including artwork and editing
The book will go to print in 2009
in time for our homecoming in 2010.
As first assignments: Des would be local coordinator, while Myrna would be US Coordinator. Ampy, Dada and Vinchu were to update the directory, and Yoling would do the initial financials.
Des, Myrna and Loily started their creative juices running and started to write poems, Yoling did her research and figured out all we could afford would be a book with mostly black and white pages.Ampy, Dada and I started updating our directory, and the rest of us started looking for our classmates.
Since then, after a long long time, we've "found" Yoly Batungbakal Roxas, June Torrejon Rufino, and Maggie Zialcita Tomas. Our egroup has grown to abour 30 members, and we have the email addresses of 60 classmates. Juanita Acosta Inton has answered our email and Yoly, Maggie, and Linda Barretto have joined our egroup. And we're only three months into the project (which we have five years to prepare for).
This blog was first meant to be a depository of all the things we hope to include in the book, but it shall also be the journal of our class as we anticipate our Ruby Jubilee.
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