This is the most recent information about the memerial pages in the Homecoming Booklet. Corrina left it in the comment section but it is important enough to repeat. Corrina is doing a great job on the book with help from Amy Sibra.
First: correction - contact for Booklet - 406-390-3176 Corinna

Then:
- deadline for memorial pages is February 25
- required is a name and class or staff title
- required is $100 for a full page, $50 for half page, $25 for quarter page
- checks payable to Homecoming Committee
- may include photo(s), poems, message, ‘from’, dob/dod

- actual photographs are preferred by the printer for quality purposes
- electronic submissions may be made as an email attachment
- Big Sandy Homecoming must appear in the subject line
- this will deliver submissions directly to the printer
- the address is bcjads@mtintouch.net
- mail hard copy submissions to Homecoming Committee, c/o Corinna, Box 437, Big Sandy, MT 59520
- originals will be returned ONLY in prepaid shipping materials that come with the submission
- you should receive a receipt to confirm your submission and payment

The Homecoming Booklet will not be the same without our Man, Jim Rettig. The new management at The Mountaineer, Keith and Kari Hansen, are eager to produce a fantastic booklet to commemorate our grand tradition, and we welcome them to the community. Their state of the art equipment and professional staff are already on the job and wish to make this the best booklet we’ve ever had! Please thank them for being here.

More will be coming to this blog in the days and weeks to come - stay tuned!!

Corinna Bahnmiller ‘87

Be sure to check out the gallery link at the top of the page. We’ve put up a few pictures from various annuals.

We’ll be putting up more pictures periodically. If you have any pictures you want added, feel free to e-mail them to us.

Well, 2010 is finally here and Homecoming is bearing down upon us. We have learned one thing in the past year or so and that is that no one on the committee is a blogger, but hopefully this web site will be more active in the next few months.

Our little hometown is starting to show the stirrings of Homecoming preparations. The past few years have been pretty unsettled here with a new fiber-optic phone system in town as well as in the rural area and a major sewer improvement project last summer. Main street has seen some changes since last Homecoming as well. A new park, a removed building (the old Lehfeldt, Jungers law office) and most exciting, the big store is back in use. The Bear Paw Coffee Shop and Deli is about to open in the old drug store spot. Thanks to Steve and Cheri ( Beirwagen) Stiles. Many other improvements around town have been occurring. Okay maybe they aren’t all because of Homecoming but we like to think some of them are.

We are getting very close to opening up registration for Homecoming 2010. In January we will be sending out a letter with the schedule of events and a mail-in registration form. We will also open the on-line registration at the same time. We have the weekend laid out basically the same as in the past, why mess with perfection. However, we are still open to suggestions. There have been many events that have been talked about that haven’t been finalized yet, such as a softball tourney. We feel that about anything is fine with us if the interest is there, but we do need to be contacted ahead of time so we can make sure it doesn’t conflict with other events and also to publicize it.

In an effort to have as many people register as possible, we have kept the basic price for preregistration the same as last time. As expected, the price of the meals has increased as well as most other things that go along with homecoming. However, because of the amazing generosity of one individual, the band for the Saturday street dance has been donated, we have been able to keep the registration price down. The price of extra meals, as well as tee-shirts and other items available through Homecoming Committee reflect the increases we have encountered. We do need everyone to register to keep the future prices down and keep Homecoming going. Our numbers are decreasing as the graduating classes of BSHS get smaller, so the more people to register, the better for all of us.

In the months leading up to Homecoming 2010 we will be having an alumnus of the week. Look for these in the Mountaineer and on this site. Again suggestions are welcome.
We would like to remind everyone if there is a family member or classmate that you would like to have included in the memorial pages in the homecoming book, please get in touch with Corinna (Ophus) Bahnmiller, 406-378-2352 or corinebean@hotmail.com . Also, we are very interested in getting as many old photos of your high school days and extracurricular activities. We are also looking for photos of alumni that look like their fathers/mothers, either now or then. We will have some of these on a gallery page on this site, on display around town at Homecoming or used during the Saturday program. You can email them to the committee, the address is found above, or mail us a copy, we would rather not have the responsibility of keeping track of your actual family heirlooms.
The 2010 Homecoming Committee hopes everyone is getting as excited about this June as we are.