It is getting down to the wire people if you want to register for the free, afternoon event at the Avenue campus (and, hopefully, get a printed name badge ?), or get a ticket for the evening event at the Highfield campus…
Hope everyone had a good Easter 🙂
Regards. The Archaeology 50th Anniversary organising committee.
With less than three weeks to go until our anniversary event on Saturday 29th April we have just sent an email reminding people about registration for the afternoon event at the Avenue campus and that we still have tickets for the evening event at the Highfield campus.
Here is hoping everyone has an enjoyable Easter break 🙂
Numbers are looking good:
New pages have now been setup to list those officially registered for the afternoon event (14:00 – 18:00) at the Avenue campus (SO17 1BF), where we have their permission (https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/suarch50/afternoon-event-confirmed-list-of-guests/) – please keep those registrations coming in (https://suarch50.eventbrite.co.uk/)!
Also, we now have a list of tracks (https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/suarch50/evening-event-music/) selected by guests going to the evening event (19:00 – midnight) at the Highfield campus (SO17 1BJ), some hiding behind the cloak of anonymity, or the cloak of the ‘organising committee’… 😉
The official registration email is about to be sent (or maybe has been by now)!
The Eventbrite event is live, for the free afternoon event! Just so people know, you select one Eventbrite ticket initially (that is all you can do) and then there are custom questions (with drop-down lists) that ask how many adults and children will be in your party. You do not need to register for each person attending.
The University of Southampton online store item is also live, for the ticketed evening event!
And I learnt that there is a singular, neuter term for a former student: alumnum (plural: alumna) – all from Wikipedia (font of all knowledge 😉 )…
S.I.G.
A slightly early blog this week (and update to our table of those having registered an interest in attending), as I have an all-day training event tomorrow. We have made good progress with some administrative and technical issues (some still to be addressed) this week, which means we are getting near to sending our second (and final) bulk email; this will have links for ‘official’ registration for the free afternoon event at the Avenue campus and the ticketed evening event at the Highfield campus. So please keep an eye on your email in early February (and that spam folder just in case…).
Regards. The Archaeology 50th Anniversary organising committee.
It is perhaps inevitable that not everyone is registered with our central University of Southampton alumni office, or that people have forgotten to update their contact details after moving (guilty as charged…). It is now very easy to stay in touch, or update your contact details online (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/alumni-supporters/stay-in-touch.page) – go on, you know you want to 🙂
Back to the numbers game – we now have 223 people as having ‘registered an interest’ on Eventbrite and 193 people have given us permission to list their details on our event website!
Regards. The Archaeology 50th Anniversary organising committee.
An alumnus of the Department (1981-89) and of the ‘Champion Chunes DJ Academy’, John Schofield will be bringing his alter-ego ‘Hippocampus’ to the University of Southampton for the party on the evening of April 29th 2017, at the Bridge (SUSU, on the Highfield campus). With a unique and eclectic set covering the full span of the Department’s fifty years, this will be a party to remember! Whether you were a student in the late 1960s, the 1970s, or just last year, there will be something for you; and if there isn’t, you can ask for it!
Regards. The Archaeology 50th Anniversary organising committee.
P.S. We can already think of some ‘tunes’ to request 🙂
Today we hit 200 people as having registered an interest on Eventbrite (with a bit of help from existing staff…) and 174 people giving us permission to list their name. With emails and letters this means we are definitely over 200 now!
We also have our first members of the class of 1970 (the first ever students to graduate with Archaeology degrees from the University of Southampton), with three alumni listed and another having written to us, asking to attend our celebration event!
Regards. The Archaeology 50th Anniversary organising committee.
We now have 183 people as having ‘registered an interest’ in attending on the 29th April 2017, with 158 people giving us permission to list them on our event website.
We would like to ask our alumni to raise awareness of the event on social media (Twitter, Facebook etc.) using the hashtag #suarch50 and pointing people to the event website (https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/suarch50/).
Thanks. The Archaeology 50th Anniversary organising committee.