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Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 1:40 pm
by JohnR
I'll be there. Maybe Ken or George can post the number of members attending???

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:38 pm
by George Bozeka
Currently, 46 people have confirmed for the meeting.

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:41 pm
by Rupert Patrick
George Bozeka wrote:Currently, 46 people have confirmed for the meeting.
Just curious, but how does that number compare to the Cleveland meeting in 2014?

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:34 pm
by George Bozeka
Now up to 50 attendees for Green Bay. In Cleveland we had around 40-42.

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:48 am
by Ken Crippen
Rupert Patrick wrote:
George Bozeka wrote:Currently, 46 people have confirmed for the meeting.
Just curious, but how does that number compare to the Cleveland meeting in 2014?
Here are the attendance figures for the meetings:

1981: 24
1982: (Unknown)
1983: (Unknown, but it was mentioned that attendance dropped from the previous year)
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2008: 13
2010: 26
2012: 60
2014: 42
2016: 50 and counting

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:41 am
by John Grasso
I'd like to thank George Bozeka, Mark Ford, Mark Durr, Roy Sye and Lee Elder for putting on
an excellent meeting this past weekend in Green Bay. I had a great time, learned a lot and
met a lot of very interesting people as well as revisited a few friends that I had met at our
Cleveland meeting two years ago. Bob Long was especially generous with his time (attending
both days plus socializing with us at the hotel) and both he and Zeke Bratkowski were very entertaining.

One suggestion - as Rupert mentioned in another thread - we need to allow more time for
the meeting. We have too many interesting people with much to say and the one and one-half
days are just not enough time.

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:38 am
by JohnH19
I would very much like to second John's comment.

The weekend was absolutely fantastic. I'm glad I arrived early on Thursday to maximize the time I was able to spend with the tremendous people I had the opportunity to get to know. Bob Long was indeed the MVP of the weekend.

Thanks to the organizing committee for hosting a great event and thank you to all of my new friends for making this lone Canuck...and Vikings fan lol...feel right at home.

John Horn

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:06 am
by Ronfitch
Thirded ... third'd?

Good grief, that was a fun weekend. Thanks, all.

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:32 pm
by Gary Najman
I also want to thank everybody for a great weekend. We had a great time meeting old and new faces. This is the third time I flew from Mexico to a PFRA Meeting (second time with my brother) and I hope to attend many more. Big thanks to George, Mark and everybody involved.

Gary Najman

Re: 2016 PFRA Biennial Meeting- Hotel Deadline Extended

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:50 am
by Massimo Foglio
I'm finally back home, and i would like to thank George for a well organized meeting, and all the people who worked to make this event a great success.
Thank you for allowing me to make my presentation (for those interested: The Milan Rhinos formerly known as the Piacenza Ponk Panthers ;) won ther italian Super Bowl crushing the Bolzano Giants 44-18), thank you for the great people i met, thank you for the chance to finally meet in person Mark after more than 10 years of "virtual" friendship.
Everything was perfect: a really great experience i hope to live again in the next meetings.

Massimo Foglio