[SML] Event pics

Chip Wood chip.a.wood at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 00:29:39 UTC 2015


It's all just showbiz, esp the part about financial support.  You forget 
every word on the way home, but somehow we need that re-creation of 
grouping around the fire in the cave or a circle of tall standing stones 
to scare off the saber-toothed tigers.

Chip 1
On 4/28/2015 5:09 PM, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft wrote:
> Ritual?   Yes that sounds good.  Think church (most denominations will 
> do)  That's about right for big college and some prep schools and even 
> corporate  events, fundraisers, reunions and inaugurations…..all of 
> which I've done in some variation  for fortune 500 companies, 
>  Cornell, Northwestern, Yale, Duke, Texas A&M, Harvard, smaller 
> colleges and some prep schools... etc .    Invariably these are done 
> in some big space, preferably on campus.  Lots of symbols of office or 
> school or place. Meaningful colors, academic vestments,  mascots (and 
> don't call  them by animal type, they'll have a name) . school songs, 
> fight songs (battle?) Alma Mater(s)…….then ….being more crass ..(who 
> me?) ...the tear jerking video of remembrance and hope,  a sermon from 
> the dias ,  the history of former past revered members   along with 
> the request for financial support.

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