Nov 21, 2009 - Alan Tschirgi in Pensacola, FL and I on Facebook chat decide to organize a Tschirgi family reunion in Dubuque.
DEC 3, 2009 - Called Mayor Buol (563) 564-5455. He answered the phone as Roy which kind of threw me. I was expecting a secretary. Had a nice talk. He said to stay away from July 4th as Dubuque becomes very busy. Alan and I had discussed that we probably want to stay away from any other major Dubuque activities. We estimated we could probably draw 100 to 150 people to the event. Mayor Buol asked me to contact the Visitors Bureau.
DEC 4, 2009 - Katy Simmons from the Dubuque Convention and Visitors Bureau called and left a voice message. I returned her call and left a voice message. Telephone tag - she's it! (563) 690-9208
DEC 7, 2009 - Katy called. She took some information. There is a street art festival going on all July and a Jazz in the park sort of thing the 31st. Other than that, Saturday, 30 July 2011 looks like our day! Katy is contacting all the motels in the area so we can get a good price and reserve a meeting place close. Mayor Buol said he might stop by.
FEB 8, 2010 - Signed contract to block 25 rooms at the Best Western Midway. 3100 Dodge St, Dubuque, IA 52003.
Be sure you tell them you are with the Tschirgi Reunion when you call 1-800-336-4392. Now we need to get the word out!
I will make a letter with the details and post it here for those who do not have internet.
March 9, 2010 - I have called all the numbers in WA, OR, CA and ID that come up on Superpages.com. Getting a good response.
I can add a list of people I have called and maybe their phone and email addresses.
May 26, 2010 - It's been a pretty wild time for me. MY computer started crashing 3 weeks before we were to go on our 2 week cruise to Hawaii. I was scrambling to get all the information I could off the PC. To be fair, it has been running 24/7 for 3 years. So I'm on my new PC and getting it set up. I've lost the address to Brian in Montana or Idaho that I said I would send him the details in the mail. That in mind, I'm going to start over but this time take better notes and annotate the persons I call here.
Washington:
Oragon:
Judith 541 437-0247 tanzygirl at gmail.com
Marolyn and Scott 541 343-0415
California:
Barbara 310 831-9411
Betty 858 270-7220
Laurie 408 846-9261 lsurgee at aol.com
Idaho: