Responsibilities of 50th Reunion Yearbook Committee Members

• Serve as an ambassador for Bates, representing Bates well to fellow classmates.
• Encourage 20-30 classmates to submit bios and memories for the yearbook.
• Join the summertime information-sharing Zoom to learn from the most recent 50th class and begin your work. 
• Choose one special yearbook section (for instance, bios, then-and-now, obituaries) and work to complete that section to make it engaging for yearbook readers. 
• Participate in regular committee communications (Zoom, phone and/or email).
• Consider a stretch gift to Bates in celebration of your milestone 50th Reunion.
• Sign up for Reunion during early bird registration.
• Ideally attend the 50th Reunion Social during Back to Bates Weekend to strengthen class connections as a yearbook committee member.
• Adhere to the Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement and Code of Conduct.

Yearbook Planning Timeline

• Two years ahead of your 50th Reunion, yearbook chairs begin to recruit committee members.
• One and a half years ahead of your 50th Reunion, committee members begin to collect updated classmate contact information so the team can successfully reach everyone to request bio submissions for the book. 
• One year ahead of your 50th Reunion, begin contacting classmates to submit bios and memories for the yearbook.
• The fall leading up to your 50th Reunion, finalize your yearbook section and complete final classmate outreach for bios.
• The winter leading up to your 50th Reunion, review the final draft of the yearbook.
• In the spring of your 50th Reunion year, the yearbook is mailed, free of charge, to the entire class!

Interested in volunteering? Reach out to Carly Hopkins at chopkins@bates.edu.