OHS Class of 62 FLOWER FUND

Several days ago I suggested that we as a class establish a fund that would pay for flowers for sick or injured classmates and for funerals. This would provide assurance that classmates receive flowers, rather then depending on ad hoc groups to collect money and purchase and send flowers.
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Since then, I have received many responses that made sense:

• A fund to send flowers or donation to specified charity, hospice or such is a good idea. Does it need to be so legalized? Can't a committee of 3-5 alumni oversee it? Either way I'm in. - Betty (Mather) Marchinton
• I love the idea of a bereavement fund.....I think flowers or contributions to charities would only be appropriate for funerals. A "Get Well" card to anyone sick or injured would be nice. - Betty (Enlow) Phillips
• I will be glad to contribute to such a fund for flowers. How thoughtful and kind of you!. - Mary Old-Kooi
• I think flowers are a terrible waste and kinda meaningless. Why not set up some sort of charitable fund, one we might all agree upon? or is it possible to create a scholarship fund? Anything that perpetuates someone's memory and not just dies off after a couple days. Just a thought. I reckon we are all reaching the time when these kinds of conversations are necessary, unfortunately. Feel so bad about Paul Turner. - Jim Huber
• Unless you were expecting to have a substantial amount of money continuously coming in as would justify an endowment, merely putting money in an interest bearing trust account would seem to make more sense. However, with interest rates as low as they are, I cannot imagine that you would be able to accumulate enough to support paying for flowers strictly from earnings. I think the idea is good as it would certainly be meaningful to receive something from our class, but a lot of effort would continuously have to be expended to keep securing enough donations to keep the program viable. - John Green