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Re: W64 Registration is Open
Registration Status Report as of 11/09:
There's about four spaces left.
On 11/10 I spent a good deal of the afternoon preparing the preliminary assignments of registrants to the companies and to huts. That's not an easy task to:
* Keep messmates together.
* Keep probable road trip partners together.
* Keep all occupants of a hut in the same company.
* Keep the companies balanced, given the above constraints.
I left two of the larger huts--the Pine Cottage and "Cooler Hut"--temporarily unassigned with their 20 bunks and 16 current registrants, pending receipt of the final registrations.
After things are filled up, some of the next steps with registrants will be:
Work at the site is proceeding apace by the busy event committee and a few other local volunteers. Things are looking good, and hopefuly the site prep will be largely completed to the extent possible by early December. Of course, there's a good deal of pre-event work at the site in the final couple days prior to the event itself.
This final W64 appears to be appealing to folks regardless of geography. Registrations for this admittedly small (in numbers) event includes folks from Oregon, Los Angeles, Arizona, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota, in addition to the folks from the areas that have typically supported W64 (New York State, Ontario, Pennsylvania, New England, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia).
Registration Status Report as of 11/09:
There's about four spaces left.
On 11/10 I spent a good deal of the afternoon preparing the preliminary assignments of registrants to the companies and to huts. That's not an easy task to:
* Keep messmates together.
* Keep probable road trip partners together.
* Keep all occupants of a hut in the same company.
* Keep the companies balanced, given the above constraints.
I left two of the larger huts--the Pine Cottage and "Cooler Hut"--temporarily unassigned with their 20 bunks and 16 current registrants, pending receipt of the final registrations.
After things are filled up, some of the next steps with registrants will be:
- Helping to coordinate loaner gear exchanges.
- Attempting to firm up flight info for those who are traveling to W64 by air (which is quite a number of you).
- Selecting non-commissioned officer impressions. So far only the commissioned officers and the two Orderly Sergeants have been selected. We need two additional sergeants and four corporals for each of the two companies. If you wish to voluneer, drop me a note and I'll put your name on a list of interested parties. Note that non-comms at this event really work, and hard. Pulling Corporal or Sergeant of the Guard duty when it's 15 degrees outdoors isn't necessarily easy or comfortable, and every non-comm (except staff non-comms and the Orderly Sergeants) will be serving in one of those roles during the weekend. Non-comms need to know their stuff when it comes to guard duty, and be able to help look out for the welfare of the men relative to cold.
- After non-comms are selected, we'll assign each registrant the name of a soldier from the historical 151st New York Co H or K, as applicable, and provide each registrant with basic info (that we have available) on each man being portrayed. If you hold rank at this event, you're portraying the very man who wore those straps or stripes. All the privates will have a "first-person name" as well, but for those we typically attempt to assign the names so that the first-person name is as close as we can get to your actual last name; most of the time, this is only that your "first-person surname" off the regiment's roster starts with the same first letter as your actual surname, but once in a while we get lucky with a name that either is very similar to the actual one or in a few cases, identical.
- Starting to better-communicate to registrants expectations and "what you need to know" to participate in this event.
Work at the site is proceeding apace by the busy event committee and a few other local volunteers. Things are looking good, and hopefuly the site prep will be largely completed to the extent possible by early December. Of course, there's a good deal of pre-event work at the site in the final couple days prior to the event itself.
This final W64 appears to be appealing to folks regardless of geography. Registrations for this admittedly small (in numbers) event includes folks from Oregon, Los Angeles, Arizona, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota, in addition to the folks from the areas that have typically supported W64 (New York State, Ontario, Pennsylvania, New England, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia).
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