Looking forward…looking back… paying tribute to the 20+ years of our AMA Museum
 
Honoring classes of  '40, '41, '50, '51, '60, '61, '70, '71, '80, and '81

Costs

Weekend Package, includes all meals and events, EXCEPT Friday's bus trip, clay shoot and golf:

Before August 15: $145 / adult
August 16 - August 31: $155 / adult
After September 1: $165 / adult

Prices for individual meals and events can be seen on the registration form, click on link to the right.

Bus Tour, Friday, $55

Schedule

Thursday, 9/16/21

1600 - 2000     Early Registration and Hospitality Room open Blackburn Inn

Friday, 9/17/21

0730 - 1630     Registration AMA GYMNASIUM

0800 - 0930    Hospitality Soupy call at Hoover Hall serving AMA Breakfast: Bacon sandwiches, Motor Oil Coffee, over toasted toast, Onion tasting Milk.

0900 - 1600    Historical Tour- President James Madison’s Home “Montpelier”. Departing Main Barracks Blacktop Area.

0900 - 1600     Golf Outing at Ingleside…on your own, no tournament.  Help find “Walter”

1000 - 1400     Sporting Clays at Flying Rabbit.

0900 - 1600    Silent Auction – Raffle and Tower of Power sale at AMA Gymnasium

1200 - 1330     Hospitality Soupy call - Hot Dogs and Burgers cookout at Hoover Hall

1400 - 1530     Ladies of AMA ART event

1400 - 1500     AMA Sports in Front Field

1730 - 1830     Welcome and Hospitality - Frontier Culture Museum

1800 - 2200    Silent Auction continues

1830 - 1945     Texas Style BBQ and Fundraiser - Frontier Culture Museum, Tower of Power Drawing

1945 - 2200    AMA Faculty & Staff Tribute - Frontier Culture Museum

Saturday, 9/18/21 

0730 - 1300    Registration open AMA Gymnasium

0730 - 0815    Hospitality Soupy AMA breakfast at Hoover Hall ... Pastries, day old doughnuts, AMA coffee

0830 - 0930   AMA Alumni General Membership Meeting at the Big Room

0945 - 1045    Foundation Meeting at the Big Room

1115 - 1230     Founder’s Day Ceremony, Old Stone Church Cemetery.

1300 - 1430    AMA Luncheon and program AMA Gymnasium, Sports Hall of Fame Awards, Roller Society Honors, Tower of Power drawing

1500 - 1700    Silent Auction open at Gymnasium

1800 - 1900   Cash Bar Blackburn Inn

1915 - 2045    Banquet and Program at Blackburn Inn Scholarship Awards, AMA Medal Presentations, Tower of Power Drawing,  50/50 Drawing

1800 - 2100    Silent Auction at Blackburn Inn

2100 - 2300    Hospitality Suite open at Blackburn Inn

Fairfield Inn, 114 Crossing Way:

Blackburn Inn, 301 Greenville Ave:

Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Road:

Tru Hotel, 120 Staunton Crossing

AMA's 2021 Reunion
September 17 - 18

Register Online

Printable Registration Form

Pistol Raffle

Online Auction

Major Changes Planned for Reunion 2021
New headquarter Hotel, New events, New venues

For the first time in the history of our organization a planned reunion event (R2020) had to be canceled this past April due to COVID19. Your AMA Reunion Committee took that opportunity to carefully review past Reunion events and venues and consider many suggestions being voiced by our alumni. Everyone felt it was time shake things up resulting in some significant changes to our reunions going forward. First we eliminated any official event on Thursday, however early registration and hospitality will be available for those arriving on Thursday. Although there are some important and required events that will remain, the Committee has been working to allow for more fellowship opportunities at the location where our memories were made….our AMA campus. Hospitality AMA Breakfast Soupy at Hoover Hall; Meetings in the Big Room and Texas Style BBQ are planned. For the first time the “Ladies of AMA” will hold at our campus a Fun Art event for all ladies that attend R2021. Furthermore the Committee has been for years considering a change in our hotel headquarters and for this Reunion we have selected the Blackburn Inn, in Staunton, VA as the R2021 alumni headquarter venue. In an effort to offset some of the cost of a better quality of food and drink we will be soliciting sponsorship opportunities for some of the events.

R2021 Hotel Headquarters:

The Blackburn Inn & Conference Center
301 Greenville Ave
Staunton, VA 24401

All rooms at the Blackburn Inn have been reserved. 

Two nearby hotels have been contracted with to supply discounted rooms for out Reunion. 

Fairfield Inn, 114 Crossing Way, 540-213-4100:

15 additional rooms for September 16-18 are available at the Fairfield Inn (a Marriott property,  114 Crossing Way, Staunton) at the special rate of $96.  Reserve your room by calling the Hotel directly at 540-213-4100.

Tru, 120 Staunton Crossing, 540-213- 4000:

10 overflow rooms at $89 for the weekend, September 16-18

Both of these overflow hotels will hold these rooms and rates until August 25th.  After that, you are on your own.

540-712-0601
guestservices@blackburn-inn.com

SPECIAL RATE $99.00 PLUS TAX YOU MUST PROVIDE/USE SPECIAL PRICING CODE OF : “AMA21”
https://blackburn-inn.com

This is a boutique type of hotel with a limited number of rooms. We have been able to secure just a few rooms at this special rate and once they are gone, they are gone. August 13, 2021 is the deadline but we do not anticipate any rooms being available by then, so to play it safe, make your reservations well before then. Alumni fully booked all the available rooms for R2020 before it was canceled due to COVID19 so be aware.  All rooms at the Blackburn Inn have been reserved.  See above for room availability at the Fairfield Inn.

Sponsorships

Your AMA Reunion Committee has been working diligently since late April 2020 securing a new venue for our reunion hotel headquarters and organizing a new format and events for Reunion 2021. We are trying to do some new things and significantly improve in the overall quality of the reunion experience. In order to make it affordable for as many alumni as possible we are opening certain events for sponsorship opportunities to help offset some of the costs. Excess sponsorship donations will be rolled over to the AMA Foundation as a donation.

All Sponsors will be recognized at all events and venues.

Here are the events/needs and the sponsorship amounts we are seeking:

Event/Activity Total Sponsorship Partial Sponsorship
Registration Desk $500 5 @ $100
Friday BBQ/GROG Event $2,500 5 @ $500
Sporting Events (2) $200 2 @ $100
Historic Bus Tour $500 5 @ $100
Saturday Formal Banquet $3,500 7 @ $500
Lunch at Gymnasium $3,000 3 @ $1,000
or 6 @ $500
Friday Breakfast Soupy $600 6 @ $100
Hospitality Room $1,500 3 @ $500
Founder's Day Wreath $200 2 @ $100
Corsages / Flowers $200 4 @ $50

Acknowledgement of sponsors:

  1. Signage at event
  2. Names mentioned with thanks during event.
  3. Single 100% sponsor of Thursday reception/Friday Banquet/Sat Luncheon/Sat
    Dinner AMA Medallion with engraved name as full sponsor.

Please be generous and consider becoming a sponsor at whatever level you can afford.

To make your pledge, please contact:
Jorge Rovirosa ’70 at JOROVI@FAROVI.COM
Garry Granger ’71 at GARRYGBD@GMAIL.COM