MAKE YOUR PLANS FOR JUNE 23, 24, AND 25, 1995.

We are making plans for Springfield, and we need your help. As I type this, David and Patricia Herd are passing a sandwich across their kitchen table. We are trying to come up with ideas and plans for the reunion. We are also writing down the names of people who might help with the many tasks. I repeat. We need your help. Things have changed since the enormous energy and creativity burst forth with the first 1991 Springfield, Missouri Fulbright Family Reunion. Marion Hoblit is gone. Jim McClure affectionately called her our "Mother Superior". Marion graciously cracked a whip to get things done. Tom Herd has married a lovely lady in North Carolina and no longer lives in Springfield. We lost our local arrangements chairman to a wonderful marriage and Morganton, North Carolina. Del Bishop's gracious wife has passed away. We shall miss her help and many acts of kindness. I have been busy with family and with working six days a week that I have had hardly any time for the family association. Some family members in Springfield have invested themselves heavily in new interests and organizations. Things do change in four years, and we have to change with them. We need volunteers from family members who live outside the Springfield, Missouri area.

We need ideas for our program in Springfield. I talked with Roger Gephart the other night. It was providential. He has done some wonderful research and wants to share with us for a few minutes in Springfield. As we talked I asked Roger if his wife, Betty, would be willing to help with the registration tables at the reunion. I receive a gracious, "Yes." Roger also volunteered a sage bit of advice. He told me to share with you that we needed your assistance at the reunion. Roger said, "Most of us will be glad to step forward if we are asked." Do you have information, ideas or insights for our program? We do have a volunteer who wants to share some family stories and anecdotes. We shall introduce her at the reunion.

Check the last page of the newsletter for a sign up sheet!

Contact Us Immediately at 816-358-2418 Or At 816- 833-3739 To Tell Us In Which Area You Can Help.

We need volunteers. We need people to help at the registration desks on Friday evening and all day Saturday. We need people to help decorate. What we are saying in the simplest terms is that we need you. You are the family association. It is a voluntary organization. If you don't like something, do something about it! Help with the association. Sometimes organizations have a "we-they" thing. There aren't enough of us to have that feeling. This is an "all of us are in this together" kind of thing. If you have anything to share about the reunion, send it along. We need everyone's help and input. All of us are volunteers, and all of us are working for "free." None of us is a professional at this. Where else can you get a newsletter that does not print the date of the reunion? The last time we printed a newsletter, David and Pat Herd and I read and reread the letter. We could not see the lack of a date! We sent you a postcard as soon as we saw our error! We regret the goof, but it is a reminder that we are not professionals. We are family members and amateur editors and publishers who are enjoying ourselves. Let us know how you want to help in doing the reunion. We shall respond as soon as possible. You may write us at the address below or you may telephone David and Pat at 816-358-2418. You may send a fax to them at the same address.

We need to know soon. We have a special arrangement with the Quality Inn for the family. The rate is good if we meet certain minimum requirements. We must have twenty-five reservations to receive the special rate. We need to know soon how many of you plan to attend for both the reduced rate program and the reservations for the meal. You can help us by letting us know soon what your plans are.

We have sixty rooms available at the Quality Inn North in Springfield, Missouri, the location of our last reunion. The special reunion rate is forty-eight dollars per night for two double beds. We shall get this rate if we have twenty-five rooms rented. May 31 is the deadline for the reunion rate. To reserve your accomodations, call toll free 1-800-955-1833 The local number is 1-417-833-3108. Mention that your reservation is for the Fulbright Family Reunion to get the special reunion rate.

Those of you who arrive on Friday evening will have the opportunity to visit fellow family members and to freshen up for the next day. A visitation area with refreshments will be available. The General Board will meet on Friday evening.

On Saturday morning, we hope to have displays and interest areas concerning family history and current family projects. Our 12:00 noon meal will be a buffet. Prices are $6.25 for adults and $4.95 for children under ten years of age. This is a pay-as-you-go meal. The General Meeting of the Family Association will be after the noon meal at 1:00 p.m. We shall meet for approximately an hour and a half to two hours. Following this meeting, we shall take time for everyone to get ready for a visit to the History Museum for Springfield-Green County. At 3:30 p.m., the Museum will honor the Fulbrights with a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony for the Fulbright Archives Room with a reception following. The museum activities will last until approximately 5:00 p.m.

Our evening meal will be at the Quality Inn North at 6:00 p.m. and will feature an address by Dr. Arthur C. Fulbright, a family member who is a retired United Methodist minister. Dr. Fulbright will share his Fulbright family background in his engaging speaking style. He is our featured board member for this edition of the news letter. (See pages five and six.) The cost of the meal is twelve dollars. Many of you requested more activities to follow the evening meal. For that reason, we plan to have our interest centers around the room for you to view slides, talk with family members from your family line and view family pictures. There is a need for all of us to have something to do in this time of lingering.

Those of us who want will have the opportunity to worship as a family group at the St. Paul's United Methodist Church, a congregation that began in early Springfield with the assistance of William and Rutha Fulbright. The congregation first met in their cabin.

The new officers and the General Board will have a breakfast meeting before church. People may stay at or leave the reunion as they choose. In years past, many people have decided to remain in the area to visit the local libraries and/or historical sites. Some of us went to Silver Dollar City, to country music shows or to other attractions in nearby Branson, Missouri. Several folks ran into each other at the Shepherd Room of the Green County Library on Central Street.