Sunday, June 14, 2009

COMPILING THE 90TH BAREFOOT REUNION COMMEMORATIVE BOOK

Carol Scott asked all present at the reunion to give a hand to all officers for the organization of the 90th Barefoot Reunion. She also complimented the clan members who compiled the 90th Barefoot Reunion Commemorative Book. That included Sylvia Coleman, President Vicki Erdley, Treasurer Sylvia Sonneborn, and Corresponding Secretary Betsy Hawthorne. Doing the book was quite a feat. Sylvia Coleman started the plan in New York. She is the co-author of the Barefoot book, and she has accumulated a large collection of obituaries and news articles. President Vicki Erdley typed all the old minutes that she could find in the archives. Betsy Hawthorne worked on accumulating the obituaries that the Hott and Kinnan families had collected on the Barefoots. Sylvia Sonneborn hunted all the old reunion announcements and gathered obituaries and other Barefoot information from her grandmother Ella Hammer Krise’s scrapbook and Elizabeth
and Eleanor Kinnan’s records. Dale McLaughlin contributed some news articles and more obits and other news stories. Sylvia Sonneborn, Vicki, and Betsy got together with Sylvia Coleman’s original work and laid out the booklet. Sylvia Sonneborn designed the cover and did the fine tuning and a Table of Contents page. Dedicated the book to their deceased sister Eleanor Kinnan who served as BR president for 14 yrs. Office Max did the printing. Once done, they were able to send the books to those who pre-ordered.

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