Hi Kathy,

> Can't ever plan too early!  That is my motto.

Good motto.   Wish it could be mine. :-)

> Hi, I am Kathy Martin - new to the list but not many of you - and have been
> here in the Twin Cities all of my life and watching Gopher Hockey for the
> last 20 years.  I am good friends with your Cruise Director, Carol White,
> and have been coming to your Frozen Four dinners for a long time.   I am by
> trade an administrative assistant and have organized many events in my long
> career.  Hope that is resume enough.

Gee, I don't think we've ever had a resume.  Cool.

> I tell you this as I am willing to be the coordinator for the Frozen Four
> dinner in 2002 when the tourney is here in St. Paul.  I plan on using Carol
> for lots of input, but was wondering if you would trust someone you have
> only seen a few times before to put this together for you.
>
> I have already scoped out one place in St. Paul and plan on doing some more
> scoping around the time of the Frozen Four this year.  I also plan on
> calling a few hotels around the area to see if we can get a group rate.
>
> So, what I need from all of you is to know I have your vote of confidence
> and if I do, what kind of food you like and if you think the possibility you
> will be in St. Paul is a good one - regardless if your team gets in or not -
> so I can tell if there is enough interest for a group rate (usually need to
> guarantee at least 20-25 rooms to get that).

Any friend of Carol's is a friend of mine!  Please go to it.

I'd say location is everything for a good turnout, but a reasonable
price will help, too.  Good food, nice atmosphere work to make it a
nice time and have people want to come back, but we want to get as
many as possible there, I would think.

Good to hear you'll be working with Carol.  It's great to have the ideas
and a backup person that might help, should a problem arise that
would cause you to become unavailable.  Hopefully you can bring a
few others on board for some extras that might not otherwise get done.
For example, someone to do T- or sweatshirts (Carol's done this at
times in the past), a Hockey-L pin (both of these could "sell" to the list
as a whole rather than just dinner attendees), and an MC to get on a
mic and work with you to plan dinner "events".  Stick on badges are
really useful.  I hate seeing someone for the n'th time and not recall
their name!

Maybe you could have a flyer at this years dinner?  You might get a
volunteer or two from it.

I don't know if you can find the right person in the NCAA to tell you the
NCAA hotel and what hotels will be "team hotels".  Getting into any of
these would be an extra benefit, but also might be "too costly",
whatever that is.

Anyway, I for 1 am happy you're volunteering; I haven't heard of
anyone else beating the door down. :)  If anyone else has such a
burning desire, I suspect they'll let us know right away.

THANK YOU!

cheers, wayne

Wayne T. Smith                    mailto:[log in to unmask]
Systems Group - UNET              University of Maine System
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