If you attended the 2019 reunion in Phoenix, look for an email inviting you to participate in a satisfaction survey.  These reunions are for YOU and your Brat family, so your opinions are important!  Please take the few minutes required to complete the survey of 11 short questions.  The last question has a place to enter your feedback/suggestions in text form, or you can email us if you need more room for your thoughts.

Survey results and comments will be shared after we close the survey   Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Here are the results of the 2019-2021 Aramco Brats Board of Directors election which were announced at the reunion banquet on May 26th.  Thanks to the ease of online voting, we had fantastic participation - 318 (22 mailed, 20 onsite , 276 electronic)! Thanks to everyone for participating in choosing your elected officers for next term!

How Brats Voted

Per ABI's bylaws, the winner was determined by simple majority. The election data and results have been reviewed and ratified by Melanie Penoyar-Perez, DH 87.  Full election results and description of voting processes can be viewed here.

Questions regarding nominations process or other volunteer opportunities should be directed to Paul Allen.

Who enjoyed seeing all the Brat fun at the reunion in Phoenix? As you might imagine, your ABI Board puts a lot of effort into organizing these events for the Brat community. You may not realize it, but ABI is run by Brats just like you.

Have a great idea that you would like to help get implemented? Interested in volunteering for the Aramco Brats, Inc. Board of Directors? Future volunteers are needed for the 2019-2021 term. Submit your volunteer interest form online today!

Appointed Positions

The following positions are appointed by the elected officers on November 1, 2019:

• At Large Director

• Database Director

• Nominations Director

• Publications Director

• Reunion Oversight Director

• Website Director

Responsibilities for board positions are outlined here. Most volunteer work is done via conference call and/or by email in approximately 1-3 hours per month. The board meets in person twice per term - once at the reunion and once during the off-year. Time commitment and meeting frequency increase with the planning cycle for the biennial Brat Reunion.

To be considered for any of the positions above, submit your nomination online now. If you’ve submitted an interest form before 2017, we welcome you to resubmit so we know you’re still available.

If you are interested in learning more about becoming an ABI Board Member or volunteering in a short-term capacity, please contact us!

NEW - 2019 Reunion Swag!

2019 reunion swag is now available in the online suq!  In addition to a limited selection of t-shirts, we've still got some sports-packs, tumblers, and those awesome Arabic Pepsi logo slap-coozies that work with both cans and bottles.

Summer Suq Sale

Help us clear out some of our t-shirt inventory and replace your favorite worn out t-shirt!  Once they're gone, they're gone!

- Add a 2013, 2015 or 2017 reunion t-shirt to your order for $6!

- Order 2 t-shirts from 2013, 2015 or 2017 for just $12!

ABI's Board of Director's hosted a town hall on Saturday, May 25th at the reunion hotel.  Attendees were given a handout showing reunion and database facts and figures as well as Q1 2019 financials and your Board's agenda items for the remainder of this term.  Meeting minutes are forthcoming after our secretary returns from vacation.  In the meantime, we have updated the reunion facts and figures to reflect our final numbers for Phoenix.   For your viewing pleasure...  Seriously, there's some fun stuff in here!

Shukran to all who participated in our Early Registration Raffle.  54 raffle tickets were purchased totaling $270 which will be put toward hors d'oeuvres at our Friday Welcome Reception.

The winners were determined during our last reunion planning meeting by entering the name for each ticket purchased into an online random name selector, Name Picker Ninja.  After a winner was selected, that entry was removed from the random name selector before we drew the next winner's name.

Congratulations to our 3 lucky winners!

Going to the Reunion next week and need to know what's where when?  Well, there's an app for that!  In addition to paper reunion programs available at Registration, we've made an app for your smart phones and tablets!  Okay, it's really more of a web site site cul-de-sac, but you'll have all the information you need to navigate the reunion right at your fingertips.

On your smart phone or tablet, click here to load the your BrAt "app."  The dropdown menu has links to everything you would typically find in a paper reunion program and then some!

• the reunion schedule times and rooms
• interactive map showing locations of reunion activities
• useful places in the area, including some restaurant information
• a map of the resort itself
• reunion update page where the reunion committee will post any important messages during the reunion.  Check back periodically or subscribe to updates via RSS feed for push notifications.
• social media
• some important reunion do's and don't's

Be sure to bookmark it and/or leave your browser window open for quick access during the reunion!  You can also add it as a shortcut to your home screen (see how: iOS or Android), so it will feel more like a normal app. It's public, so there is no need to log in. The "app" will also be accessible as a tab on www.aramco-brats.com for the duration of the reunion and through a link on ABI's home page.

Hear ye, hear ye! The Biennial Aramco Brat elections are now underway. Please visit https://www.aramco-brats.com/vote/ and cast your ballot for President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary! You will be receiving a paper ballot in the mail as well. But why wait? Cast your votes now at https://www.aramco-brats.com/vote/

Do you prefer to vote online?  Do you toss those paper ballots we send you into your recycle bin or shredder?  Now you can opt out of receiving paper ballots in the mail and help us save paper and faloose!

If you are committed to voting electronically, you can opt out of receiving paper by updating the preferences in your user profile.

If you do nothing, you will continue to automatically receive a paper ballot in your mailbox whether you want it or not.  We hope you will take a few minutes to help us cut down on waste and keep your organization's overhead costs low.  Shukran!