AramcoBrats, Inc.

1. On-Line Reunion Registration Closing

On Sunday, May 22, the on-line registration form will be disabled, and you will no longer be able to submit an on-line registration form. This is to allow the committee time to finalize the database and print name tags prior to the opening of Registration at the Hilton Houston Post Oak. If you have not yet registered for the reunion, you may still do so at the door starting Thursday afternoon. Goodie bags and t-shirts for walk-up registrations will be available as long as "extra" supplies last.

The Reunion Committee would like to express its thanks to all of you who registered on-line. The vast majority of registrations were submitted electronically. Not only does this cut down on entry errors on the Committee's end, but it also saves an incredible amount of work for the person who has taken on the daunting task of building the database, in this case, Penny Dougharty Maher. THANK YOU for your fabulous response to the on-line registration option!

2. Wanted - Pictures of Life In Aramco Camps

ABI Publications Director, Dean Barnes, is looking for a few good pictures of life in Aramco camps for use in future copies of Newsletters and on the ABI website. Dean plans to bring a laptop computer and scanner to the reunion. He will set aside a *limited* amount of time to scan in photographs presented to him by individual Brats which he determines would be of broad interest to all of Bratdom. He is looking for three types of pictures. First, pictures of recognizable features in any of the areas in which Brats lived in Saudi Arabia. Second, images of Arabian cultural items or buildings as well as non-Aramco areas which are generally recognizable to brats. This area can show groups of Brats in front of the generally recognizable areas. Third, group shots of Brats in front of recognizable areas outside of Arabia (i.e. London, Hong Kong, etc.) Dean is not looking for general photos of Brats which could have been taken anywhere - his emphasis is in the first two categories.

Dean plans to set up in the Suq sometime on Saturday (probably in the late morning). He hopes to post an announcement - if not, look for him. Please only bring photos which you took, or which you have permission to let us use. Dean will look over the pictures and discuss with you what interest it might have to the Brat community. If your photos will be used he will ask you to sign a short release giving us permission to use the image, he will scan the image into his laptop while you watch, then give the picture back to you, keeping, of course, the scanned image. The release will have a space for you to write the correct spelling of your name, a brief description of each image used and the names of any people in the images. Dean cautions everyone that this is an untested process - one which he is putting together at the last moment because he likes the idea. Like many good ideas, it may not operate as he intend s it to, so there are no guarantees that any of this will occur.

Hope to see you next week,
Diana Ryrholm-Geerdes RT 1962
For the ABI Board of Directors and the Houston Reunion Committee

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