PAID REUNION FEE BIG PRIZE IN WIDB 50TH ARTIFACTURAL DIG CONTEST

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Gary Goyle

Win a free “fee” for the reunion! Send us your WIDB stuff for sharing & prizes as you enter the WIDB 50TH ARTIFACTURAL DIG CONTEST! Just entering gets you $10 off the reunion fee. and the BIG PRIZE is paid reunion fee.

HERE IS THE STUFF YOU CAN SEND US:

a. Photo of WIDB garment (someone wearing)

Randy Lynch and his jacket (John Amberg background right)

b. WIDB card (ID business giveaway Christmas) or photo of WIDB’ers activities or paper item w/story (such as sale contract w/story or event flyer w/story or playlist w/story, etc.) or just a WIDB story.

WIDB giveaway card 1985

c. WIDB aircheck or stand-alone production w/story (even if you didn’t do it), Includes program open/close and anything produced (Limit 5 min, editing OK, ID year & voices, MP3, please)

d. MISC. WIDB item (A WIDB tchochcke or item such as WIDB koozie, roach clip, condom). Please submit photo.

CONTEST RULES:

1. Enter early & often. Submit entries to Mailto:contest@widbnetwork.org

2. Submission of entry authorizes us to post it on our web page & Facebook.

3. Only one $10 credit per person upon first entry. One grand prize will be awarded for each category. Everyone must sign up & pay regular reunion fee; credits and prizes awarded at reunion. Prizes non-transferable. Limit one grand prize per person.

4. Submission deadline September 15, 2019. This may be extended.

5. Decision of the judges (Reunion Committee) is final.

Announcing the WIDB 50th Anniversary Reunion Set For June 26-28 2020 !

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Terry

WIDB turns 50 in 2020 so we will re-unite and celebrate June 26-27-28 in Carbondale and Giant City!

Your hard-working reunion committee is already rising to the challenge! WIDB’s 50^th will have something for everyone ages 18-70! Old friends, music, the splendor of Giant City in June, re-visiting C’dale and WIDB, and this one should be the BEST REUNION YET!

It’s never too early to mark your calendars for the only reunion “between the eclipses” June 26-27-28 in C’dale and Giant City! Remember that many wished they came days early and/or stayed late, so this is the time to plan extra days.

Email updates to come.

If you are not receiving email updates, and want them, please register HERE

Your hard-working 50^th Anniversary Committee

45 years of WIDB has been celebrated – early reports say a good time was had by all

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Dale

As the last straglers are leaving Giant City we can close the book an another WIDB reunion. Based on the smiles, laughter and endless stories it appears that 45 was a big success. If you weren’t here this year, I’m pretty sure if you ask anyone that did attend they’ll suggest you do everything you can to make it the 50th in 2020.

We have lots of pictures coming soon, but here are a few to get us started. These photos are courtesy of Drew Swim. Click any pic to enlarge.

Drew, thanks for being so diligent with the camera and taking so many great shots. We’re looking forward to seeing pictures from everyone that attended.

Pokeys Ride Roughshod Over Gumbys

Posted on June 28, 2015 by John Spotts

6/27/15 Giant City State Park, Makanda, IL

Gumby Celebrates Loss

For the first time in almost two decades weather conditions were pleasurable at
Picnic Area 5(1) Ballpark for the quin-annual 16 inch softball grudge match.
Teams featured were the league leading Pokeys and the In Da Basement Gumbys.

The grandstands were packed and a full seven inning regulation event began with a severely abbreviated national anthem and verbal fireworks.

The Pokeys took to the field with their famous “Deep Space Nine” lineup while the Gumbys just horse played around seeming to wander the field aimlessly.
Later innings featured several high scoring frames prompting the Pokeys
Charlie “Big Slugger” Clark to extort – “We Injured Da Ball.”

Fans exiting the ballpark post game were heard chanting
“We want a pitcher not a belly itcher!”
Losing Gumbys pitcher Gary West grumbled
“Our fans are just a bunch of Wild Irresponsible Drunken Buffoons”
adding plenty of fuel to the fire for the next Gumby/Pokey game in 2020.

Some More Pictures from the 45th Anniversary Reunion Sh’bang

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Dale

It’s time to dip into some more pictures from the 45th Anniversary Reunion. Thanks to Steve Meisner, Ray Vallone, Kathleen Funk Linton, and John Amberg for the use of your snaps. Click any pic to enlarge.

These three were there!

So were these four!

Hey look! These four people were there too!

Four of these six guys were there. Oh wait, the other two made it too! But at least one of them was also on an entirely different plane at the same time (HINT: he’s not wearing a hat).

And these two. They both made it. And here they are at Pinch Penny.

Wait a minute – these people made it to the reunion too? And they were at the open house? The guy in the back appears to be stealing a bunch of albums.

It wouldn’t be an IDB reunion without at least one fez. And there were several this year. And these two. They were there too. If you’re counting, I think the guy was on the right was in the picture above this one. The guy in the back was actually that blurry in real life. It was weird.

These two guys were even on the TV! And they took calls. And there was spontaneous singing.

It’s the Human Reunion Centipede. Hey wait a minute, we’ve already seen these three guys. And of course, there was a special visit from the Fezley Cup…

That’s another taste of the 45th reunion. A whole boatload of pictures coming soon. Thanks again John, Kathleen, Ray, and Steve for the use of your pics. Looking forward to seeing even more pics taken at the reunion (keeping in mind the Iron Clad Agreement, of course).