Welcome - If this
is your first visit to this website, make sure we know
how to contact you by registering your contact
information in the
ACOG Management Staff Directory.
We have plans to hold additional staff reunions beyond
the 10 Year Anniversary held in 2006.
We have been
actively searching for all of the ACOG Management Staff in
the last 10 years, and there will be one final push to
reach out and try and find as many missing people as we
can. Mention this site to everyone you know who
worked on the 1996 Centennial Olympics.
Each month a few
more people stumble upon our site and register. I
haven't kept up with a list of who these old friends
are. But here is a list of
Department Names you
can search in the database to find old friends
If you were one of
the 47,466
Olympic Volunteers in 1996, click
HERE.
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Thursday - February 9th, 2012
My plans for a 15 Year Reunion
in Atlanta during the summer of 2011 came and went I am
afraid. My production and business travels never
let up long enough for me to turn my plans into a
reality.
I know I am
returning to Atlanta for business the weekend of
May 19th. My Sunday the 20th is likely to
be free, maybe I can slip in a simple adhoc
meetup where people can drop in just to see who
shows up.
I will have
to do an email blast just to see how many dead
email addresses I have in my database after 6
years.
Harvey
Louie : 415-987-5281
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Thursday - February 17th, 2011
A 15 Year Reunion
has been on my mind for the past 18 months now. I
was in Atlanta on business for a week, last November in
2010. I made some site inspections on possibly
where I could produce both an evening cocktail party
mixer in one location like on a Saturday night, as well
as a Olympic Park Picnic event the next day.
My plans
are simple and easily do-able, but my biggest
fear is not having time in my busy travel and
production schedule to pull it all together.
So I am looking at what can be be done, and who
could possibly help me.
Once I have
a better grip on things I will post and email as
many people as I can - giving as much notice as
I can possible muster.
Harvey
Louie : 415-987-5281
Saturday -
September 12th, 2009
Another full year
has passed since I was last in Atlanta on August 24th
2008, on the happy occasion of my good friend
Mindy Ellis
getting married. But I was recently saddened when
my long time good friend
Bob Stiles, the Venue Manager of the Olympic Stadium
suddenly passed away in August of this year 2009.
Both occasions
remind me how much I value the friendships and special
bonds that I have formed with the 100's of the people I had
met at my time at ACOG.
I still have an
interest in helping to staging a 15 Year Reunion in
2011. I have layed the ground work for a picnic at
Centennial Olympic Park, with a possible after hours
adult party at the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce function
space overlooking the Park.
Pictures from the
last reunion showed people have a good time. I am
sure a 15 Year Reunion will be even better.
I haven't picked a
date in 2011 to hold such an event. Nor I have
solicited a local Atlanta Team to help me support an
event like this. But look for an announcement in
the summer of 2010.
I will keep
everyone informed via direct emails if you are
registered in the Staff
Directory.
Here is another fun photo from 1994
of the then currect
ACOG Management Staff.
Friday - August
22nd, 2008 -
Its an ACOG Gathering
OK, the plans are
set for TONIGHT and we are going to
show up at "Stats" Sports Bar and Restaurant at 300 Marietta Street
near Centennial Olympic Park.
Come after work - 6:00 PM - and stay until they kick us
out.
- Bring a
Camera
- Wear your ACOG Accreditation or...
- Come wearing your 10 Year Reunion Accreditation - thanks Maria at the
Ardian Group
We are all just
showing up and descending upon the place. No
private room, unless we just end up crowding out the
place and they comp us a private space. I'll try
and soften them up a bit when I get there in the
afternoon to see the place for the first time.
Maybe they will be nice to us and I'll get my way for
space.
I'll be having
dinner with a few friends at 6:00 pm - but I don't
expect most to show until 7:00 pm. Time to maybe
get home, change cloths, grab a snack, and get on your
Olympic Spirit!
Message Board
Link
Harvey
415-987-5281 cell
www.StatsAtl.com
300 Marietta St NW
Atlanta, GA 30313
(404) 885-1472
Monday - August 18th, 2008 -
Its an ACOG Gathering
OK, the plans are
in motion to do a get together this week on Friday after
work. The location will be somewhere near the
Olympic Park. A few people
had mentioned "Stats" at 300 Marietta Street.
Kim Kovacs mentioned Max Lagers, the Brewhouse right down the street on Peachtree
near the old 270 HQ.
I am asking people to post a quick message on this
bulletin board, so we all have some idea of who
might be coming. It will help me with some sort of
head count, while at the same time giving others an idea
of any friends that might pop in to attend that night.
What I do know is
that I have to have dinner somewhere while I am in town
that night. I welcome anyone who wants to join me
for a little sit down time. I know Annie Gersna
from Language Services will be joining me at our final
chosen location. Shooting for 6:00 pm I guess.
Everyone should
wear either your 1996 ACOG Accreditation, or the 10 Year
Reunion Accreditations that Maria Ngayan-Shelton from the
Ardiangroup.com
made for all of us.
Check this website
one final time on Friday after 3:00 PM for the latest
and greatest news. I am in the air all day on
Thursday, getting into ATL at about 10:00 pm. I'd
like to nail it all down by the end of my day on
Wednesday. But like every event - its always down
to the wire.
Harvey
415-987-5281
Saturday - August 9th, 2008 -
The Games are On, Beijing Games that is.
Anyone want to get
together in Atlanta while the Games are still on.
Friday night the 22nd, check this posting for for ideas
and for leaving suggestions. I'll leave major
updates here so you can find out what really might
happen.
http://www.acog1996.com/cgi-bin/guestbook3/guestbook.cgi
Harvey
Tuesday - December
5th, 2006 - Olympic Museum Photos
Here is a link to
the
Olympic Museum Photos I took on last business trip
back to Atlanta in September. The exhibit
will hold 200 people on it two floors of displays.
There is a "no food or drink" policy in the exhibit
areas, so an actual reunion in the space is not allowed.
But there are plenty of other common areas to serve and
consume food and drink.
Harvey
Friday - September
1st, 2006 - Olympic Museum Gathering
I wasn't able to
pick up enough steam on this special event, so I had to
cancel it this week. We will all have to gather there in
the summer of 2007 when I hope we can all gather again
for second ACOG Staff Reunion. Maybe that event will
take place in early June or maybe late September. July
and August have been ruled out as that is when most
families take their vacations.
But before we get
to the next reunion, I need your help to search the
Staff Directory and
see if you can help me find the lost and missing staff
members. It's amazing how many of us it took to produce
the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, but even more amazing
we have lost touch with so many of the former friends
and fellow staff members.
Help me reach out
and find all who we can.
Harvey
Saturday - August
19th, 2006 - Olympic Museum Gathering
Well, call me crazy
or just a man asking for punishment - but I think I have
it all worked out if anyone wants to join me and a few
close ACOG friends at the new Olympic Museum. Of course
the catch is I have to get enough people to commit to
pay for 250 tickets to have the Atlanta History Center
open the doors to have our own private showing. Tickets
will be the normal $15 admission, plus a $1 service fee
to cover the PayPal charges.
If anyone wants to
try and make a go of it - the date is set for September
17th, a Sunday night from 6:00 PM until maybe 11:00 PM.
Everyone - young and old, staff and non-staff are
invited to attend. I have one week to try and get 250
people to ante up and make a commitment through August
28th. Then if I have my 250 pledges to buy tickets, I'll
give everyone one more week to go online and pay via
PayPal before the Labor Day Weekend is over on September
4th.
A $3,500 minimum
deposit will be due on Sept 6th, ten days before the
event. If I have this amount in my PayPal account to
meet the payment, I will consider taking cash and checks
at the door, but always prefer to have people use
PayPal.
This is all a
little bit crazy, since I will be on the road from Sept
9th in Washington D.C., until I end up in Atlanta on
September 16th the day before the event. I am producing
a broadcast at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center on
the 19th and 20th for the new CEO of CIBA Vision.
Click HERE to register and commit to Olympic Museum
Tickets
Payments for tickets will be required after 250 tickets
are committed to, or not at all if we fall short by
Monday, August 28th. You can see our progress by
searching the database for people responding "YES"
regarding attending.
Harvey
Saturday - August
5th, 2006 - 2006 Reunion Photos
I have posted the
reunion photos on
the website that have been sent to me so far. It's fun
to see everyone smiling and having a good time at the 10
year reunion held at the Inforum. If you are still
holding onto photos from the reunion, email them to me
at.
Here is a link to
an article about the weekend from
Around The Rings.
For those of you
who couldn't attend our gathering due to rather short
notice, I guess that may be some of my fault. I didn't
start searching for ACOG Staff Alumni until April 13th
which was only 90 days out of the actual 10 year
reunion. Be assured that you will get more notice on the
next one.
If you are just
finding out now that there was a 10 year reunion party
specifically for the ACOG Management Staff, I have been
looking for you. Make sure and
REGISTER on this
website to be notified of the next reunion, and to be
added to the overall Staff Directory. Don't hold me to
it, but maybe we can slip in 1 or 2 more gatherings
before we hit the 15 Year Reunion mark in 2011.
If you need a place
to post a message,
HERE is the place to do it.
And a final "Thank
You" to everyone who took the time to attend, and
especially the SHINING STARS
who offered a little extra financial support to stage
the event. It was pretty much a break-even event which
is the best you can always hope for. I hope we can all
do it again, sooner than later but with maybe 500 to
1,000 of our closest ACOG Friends & Staff. Now that
would really be a party!
Help me find those
who we don't have contact with. For every One Person I
have found in the past 90 days, there is One More out
there that is on the missing list somewhere.
Harvey
Monday - July 26th,
2006 - 2006 Reunion Recap
Wow, what a fun
time it was seeing everyone from the ranks of the ACOG
Management Staff who were able to come out and celebrate
the 10 Year Anniversary of the Centennial Olympic Games
at the Inforum Lobby this past Saturday.
Like someone said
before me - this may be the start of something big! I
have contact with 650 of you now, and my goal is to
reach out and find 650 more, and then another 650 more!
Then I'll really have the makings of a Party on our
hands!!
Keenan Delaney from
Sports reminded me of what I said in an April 13th
email, that I sent to the everyone in the very first
round of emails...
"I have been
asked many times in the past 2 years if I would be
helping to stage an official reunion. The answer is no."
Well, this is one
of the few times in life I haven't kept my word.
I might be saying
something like this in a few weeks when I get clobbered
with all the party bills and come up a short.... but
that is another email all together (don't you just
love'em, bills I mean - not all the emails from me).
But in the end when
I look back on just the past few days, knowing I was
able to pull together as many people as I could in only
90 days of reaching out - I think I did OK.
Keep reaching out
for me - to me find the next 650 Ex-ACOG Staff Members.
We all know they are out there, most right around the
corner somewhere in the greater Atlanta area.
I would like to pass the torch a bit, and have some
local people (not this San Francisco guy) find a place
and a time to hold a series of gatherings over the next
few years. Then maybe hold a BIG 15 Year Reunion with
Everyone Attending.
I'll help lead the
charge with my expert guidance now that I have the
official title of "CEO" of the Post Olympic Games Staff.
Thanks for the wall plaque Winkie, Janice and Lisa, I
love you all - way too cool.
Once I warp up my
Family's reunion and return from a 5 day camping
vacation in the Sierra Mountains, I will be back in
touch with everyone about sending me digital pictures to
post on the website. That will give me time to re-think
what I just said above and get out before the going gets
tough. What I am saying, the tougher the job the more I
want it - right Bob Stiles!
Post any messages
HERE that you would like to leave behind.
Cheers Everyone!
Harvey
