Shelley Rugg has an idea. She wants us all to help celebrate her dad's Diamond Jubilee.
Yep, Ken Rugg is turning 75 and if all goes well, lots of old theatre friends and others will assemble for a big surprise party on the CSULB campus. It's a surprise, so as you connect with us here and in email, please make sure you don't cc to Ken.
Shelley has begun a Kenneth Rugg Scholarship Fund that will aid theatre students at CSULB. Donations to the Fund are welcome. How to do that will be known soon.
If you've studied with Ken, been on faculty with him, worked in theatre with him, gone to school with him or in anyway have an association, please leave a note here.
Also, all ideas for the celebration starting the afternoon of Saturday, January 24, 2009, are solicited and most welcome. Currently, we hope to surprise Ken in the Studio Theatre and either have folks come together with performances or presentations. Another idea is to just have folks recount memories of our associations with Ken.
Check this site for updates. We hope to have confirmed guests by about December 15th to plan for food and drink.
Please, pass the word. Which, of course.. is "Mummmm!"..
Michael Sheehan
2 comments:
Regarding Food and Drink, I was talking to some friends today, and a woman said that she had been to a potluck wedding. Guests were told what type of dish to bring based on their last names, and guests who were coming a distance were asked to bring bread. Everyone was asked to bring a bottle of wine. She said that everyone really liked it, and the group concurred that it sounded like a cool idea. What does everyone else think?
Shelley! This is a great idea. Keeping the budget under control with folks chipping in with food and drink just leaves coordinating the arrival of guests and putting the foodies on tables in the lobby of the theatre.
This is basically your baby, so if you can arrange for tables and we should probably provide for plates and napkins and such.. It'll all work out beautifully.
I've been in touch with Jaye Johnson who says that some of the folks from the sixties are still around and she is really enthused by the idea.
Michael
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