Fall 2003
Vol. 10/ No. 2

How To Do the Reunion Tango

Volunteering to bring your classmates together is as easy to do as learning to tango.
When learning to dance you go to an instructor that knows the steps and has a plan to teach those steps to you.

Our instructor, Donna Otto, has the steps in place and is looking for co-instructors to help coordinate the individual “classes.”

Step 1. To become a co-instructor you need to take the lead and guide your class back to campus. We will support you by supplying available classmates names and contact information.

Step 2. Take the Word document we’ll send you, personalize it and you have your initial contact letter.

“In preparing for our 100 year celebration, we have become very excited about reconnecting with our alums,” Otto said. “To do this we need help. We need individuals to step forward to bring their class together.”

So far in your dance lesson, you’ve learned two steps. At this point you’ll need to pause.

Step 3. Attend the banquet Friday, April 30, 2004. With your leadership and careful planning, we can identify who would like to be seated together.

This is a more advanced step, but don’t worry we are here to support you. During on-going conversations, we need to make sure seating preferences are listed on all banquet RSVP cards. You could also arrange for hotel rooms to be close together so the visiting could continue late into the evening.

Step 4. Saturday morning class reconvenes on campus for tours of the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and University Hospital. There’s no need for you to find things for your classmates to do or to arrange any schedules. Our master instructor has taken care of it all for you. She’s even arranged a luncheon in the Health Sciences Library atrium (cost to be determined).

Step 5. Donna will handle the promotion of the reunion tango classes through Mizzou Nursing as well as the Web sites at the school and the MU Alumni Association.

You’ve now learned the basic steps of the reunion tango. It might seem a little intimidating, but you have all the support you need to become a co-instructor. And just imagine the fun you’ll have when the whole class understands the steps. You’ll be talking about it for years to come.

To contact Donna, call her at (573) 884-7293 or email her at OttoD@missouri.edu.