Stories from the Trenches• Your reunion chair seemingly disappears, leaving no one in charge to

make all of the arrangements for your reunion weekend. What does the board do to address the problem?

• Instead of not doing anything, your reunion chair does too much. Committees exist in name only and decisions and purchases are being made by the reunion chair without any collaboration with co-chairs or class officers. How do you handle this?

• Members of your class have said they don’t feel the need to come to reunion because they’ve stayed in touch with their friends since graduation. How do you persuade them to come?

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Stories from the Trenches

• You have planned a great Saturday night program that centers on a presentation by a classmate in her field of expertise. But it becomes clear as she starts her talk that it’s really a sales job for a questionable financial product. What do you do?

• One of your classmates volunteers to be the entertainment on Saturday night but others who are familiar with the classmate do not believe she is the caliber of entertainment the class is looking for. How do you nicely decline her offer?