Diamond Jubilee Year/Bob's Motel

Happy New Year, Rugg.

Shelley and Grace and I will have a meeting on Sunday to finalize plans to surprise you. At this writing there are more than seventy of your old pals and their families who will fete you on January 24th.

It'll be great to see the look on your face when you arrive at the theater. You'll get to hear some anecdotes!

This is Bob's Motel.. Okay, Bob? Bob's your uncle?

Happy Birthday, Rugg!

Max Ten

Merry Christmas!!

Thought you might like to know that Rugg and some of his family will be performing at The Electric Lodge in Venice on Monday, January 5th at about 7:30.

Tickets are ten bucks. The ten pieces, each ten minutes long are eclectic and mostly experimental. They've had some pretty amazing work in the past.


http://www.electriclodge.org/arts/events/max10.cfm for more info.

If you do decide to come down to the Electric Lodge, just say that you heard about it from Shelley or me.

Happy New Year, too.

Gifts?

Shelley hasn't said so, but it seems that the appropriate gift, should you wish to come up with one, would be a contribution to the Kenneth Rugg Scholarship Fund. I've sent a check and hope that the CSULB Fund will wind up with a substantial amount. Don't know how it'll be administered, but certainly it'll be helpful to a worthy theatre student who will put it to good use.

I went to dinner with Rugg and Grace recently and got this shot of him. Thought I'd share it with you and have it for him to see when we tell him about this blog.

Evite? Yikes!

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=RQOHTFFMCWGNXAOSVXOT&li=iq&src=email
Okay!! Hope this one works.
Addendum: Shelley has had a hard time with this url to the evite. I copied the whole address by double clicking on the link and pasted it into a new tab and it came up for me. There's Good Old Ruggala in Krapp's Last Tape.. So.. keep watching this blog for any updates. My email address is coded in a previous entry. Send me a note and I'll figure out a way to get you to the evite if my suggestion here doesn't work. Thanks!

I've had a hard time getting this evite address to show up in this blog. If you can connect with the site, you'll be able to see who has already RSVP'd and sign in.

Shelley has gotten the Rugg Scholarship Fund going. This is double info, but just in case, if you want to make a contribution to the Fund, please send a check payable to:
CSULB Foundation with a note that it's for the Kenneth Rugg Scholarship Fund.
Their address is:
CSULB Foundation
Attention: Kenneth Rugg Scholarship
6300 State University Drive
Suite 332
Long Beach, CA 90815-4669

Stories about Ken will be in a segment called 'In the Actors Studio' for about an hour from 4:30 'til 5:30. Festivities will continue with music by SHAKE, Shelley's band (well, she's a member of the band!!) until 8:30.

Hope the URL shows up this time. Leave a note here if it doesn't connect.

About sixty friends have RSVP'd so far! Looking forward to seeing old pals.. and everyone!

If you love great poetry, Sharon Doubiago (that's her photo) has a new book out: Love on the Streets from University of Pittsburgh Press www.upress.pitt.edu She has nothing to do with Rugg's birthday but I really like her! Google her for some pithy stuff.

Timing

Rugg is planning to have a diamond celebration with his old friend, Vaughan Hitchcock, for their mutual birthdays. If Hitchcock is reading this, hope that he will be sure to not plan anything for 1/24/09.

I tried a phone number for David Stiver in Folsom, CA, but got a fax tone. Not sure he is Mary Lou's son, but will try some other moves soon.

Evite

To help Shelley keep track of RSVPs, please go to this link and sign up:

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=RQOHTFFMCWGNXAOSVXOT&li=iq&src=email

The best way to do this is to copy the address and then paste it into a new tab. You can see who has already RSVP'd and I think you may leave comments. If you want to tell a story about Rugg at the party, you can sign up there.

Thanks!

Volunteers?

Shelley has just let me know that Linda Woolverton will attend the party! She's one of Ken's prize students who has gone on to do good work as a writer. Currently, she's working on a film with Tim Burton! Heady stuff. I wanted to get her address from Ken to make sure she knew about the celebration. So.. now, KEN.. you know why I was trying to write to her! Ya poop, ya.

I've entitled this entry 'Volunteers' to solicit help for the event. If you are following this blog and have ideas to share, please do. If you are distant and want to leave a note for Ken, do that, too. I'll make sure he has access to it after the celebration.

If you know other students, friends or colleagues who would like to come to the party, please pass the information along and use my yahoolaotzu41 address to RSVP.