Communications Resources

class emails

One project that can make a big difference for Reunion attendance is writing a personalized email to your class! Mac will format and send out the emails with branded banners and footers, but these emails tend to have the biggest impact when they are written by alumni, rather than staff. Below are some sample emails that you can use to build your own.

Tips:

  • Consider listing all of the committee members, which may help make connections with classmates.

  • Include class-specific social platforms (Facebook, Instagram), make sure to post updated, engaging content before the email goes out so that people find that content when they click on it. Or use the email to a question they can respond to on Facebook. #heymac

Sample email text #1

Subject line: Planning to attend Reunion 2023 at Mac?

Hi [Name],

Come back to Mac for Reunion!

Three/Five reasons you should come back for the Class of [date] Reunion: [personalized]

Two things you can do:

  • Visit our class Facebook page with your suggestions for programming, events, and at least one song you want to hear for our class dinner playlist.


Look for your Reunion brochure in March and then register online. Reunion is about rekindling your Mac spirit with like-minded classmates, old and new. There’s no need to change: come just as you are.


All the best,

Your Class of [xxxx] Reunion Committee

P.S. By contributing to our class gift, you can be part honor your own Macalester moment, celebrate Reunion, and help the students of today and tomorrow. If you’ve already given this fiscal year, thank you for your contribution to Macalester!



example email from 2014's 5th reunion

Hi [Name],

You may have heard…but it’s the Class of 2014’s 5-year reunion this June 8th-11th! Before you get too panicked thinking about the passage of time and how old you feel, take a deep breath and get hyped for all the fun we have planned just for the class of 2014:

  1. Slideshow of the best (and most tastefully embarrassing) photos from our time at Mac

  2. A bumping playlist so we can party like we’re at a Kagin circa 2010-2014

  3. An update from our beloved Last Lecturer, Sedric McClure

  4. But the biggest, best thing that we are planning is to get as many of you as possible there, because our Mac experience was so shaped by the people we shared it with!

Whether you’re like many of us on the reunion committee and have been excited about reunion since before graduation or feeling a bit ambivalent about the whole thing, the biggest take away from our predecessors at the planning meetings is that the 5-year reunion especially is about connecting with each other in a big way.

You’ll be getting a reunion brochure in March, at which point you can register online. For now, you can:

  • Find us on Social Media! You can join our Facebook group (Macalester College Class of 2014 Reunion) and follow us on Instagram (@macalester2014). Please email us photos and playlist suggestions, at macalester2014@gmail.com (Don’t worry, we’ve already got Missy Elliott’s “Work it” on the playlist…and forever stuck in our head thanks to the Jukebox in Café Mac).

  • Update your MacDirect profile and let us know on Facebook or Instagram if you plan to be there!

  • Share your Macalester Moment. Check out an example from the class of 2014 here . If you do, please use the hashtag, #mac2014!

Reunion is about rekindling your Mac spirit with like-minded classmates, old and new. There’s no need to change: come just as you are. We can’t wait to all be together again.

All the best,

Your Class of 2014 Reunion Committee

P.S. By contributing to our class gift, you can be part of The Macalester Moment campaign for access and excellence, honor your own Macalester moment, celebrate Reunion, and help the students of today and tomorrow. If you’ve already given this fiscal year, thank you for your contribution to Macalester! You helped our class shatter our personal fundraising records!

example email from 2009's 10th reunion

Hi, << Test FIRST_NAME >>,

Yes! June marks 10 whole years since we were last together on campus: meaning it's time to REUNION!

Here are four things you can look forward to when you arrive back on campus:

  • Reminiscing about old stomping grounds--like the Kirk Dungeon, your old dorms, the Grate, or Shish

  • Adult + kid-friendly activities a-plenty (feel free to bring the entire family if it's possible!)

  • Laughing about life with folks you met back in school, and then meet folks you never met while on campus together

  • and...of course...The Martini Tent!


If you haven't already, please mark your calendars for Reunion, this June 7-9 in St. Paul! In the meantime, here are three things you can do:

  • Visit our class Facebook page and tell us what (and who!) you want to see at Reunion. Which professors do you want to attend our class dinner? What songs do you want on the playlist? Have any throwback photos to share for our slideshow? Please share!

  • Update your MacDirect profile and submit a Class Note about anything you want to share with just about everyone.

  • Think back to your college years and share your Macalester Moment on social media

Look for your Reunion brochure in March and then register online. Reunion is about rekindling your Mac spirit with like-minded classmates, old and new.

There’s no need to change: come just as you are.

All the best,

Anna Min and Maja Ingeman from your 2009 Reunion Planning Committee


P.S. By contributing to our class gift, you can be part of The Macalester Moment campaign for access and excellence, honor your own Macalester moment, celebrate Reunion, and help the students of today and tomorrow. If you’ve already given this fiscal year, thank you for your contribution to Macalester!


SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGES

Instagram Posts

(image description: a photo of a gathering of people outside Old Main at Macalester Reunion. Blue text on a white background reads, "I'm going to Reunion, June 8-11, 2023.")

(image description: a photo of a gathering of alumni by the martini tent on the great lawn at Macalester. Blue text on a white background reads "June 8-11, 2023, Reunion.")

FOR TWITTER AND FACEBOOK

(image description: a photo of a gathering of people outside Old Main at Macalester Reunion. Blue text on a white background reads, "I'm going to Reunion, June 8-11, 2023.")


(image description: a photo of a gathering of alumni by the martini tent on the great lawn at Macalester. Blue text on a white background reads "June 8-11, 2023, Reunion.")