About Our Banquet

Annual Alumni Banquet

St. Philip Basilica High School

Friday, May 6, 2022

6:00 P.M.: Cocktails

7:30 P.M.: Dinner

9:00 P.M. to Midnight: Hospitality - Open Bar

Future Banquet Dates

The 2022 Annual Banquet has been rescheduled until Friday, May, 6th, 2022, due to the COVID19 Pandemic. ALL Reservations & Payments are due on or before April 15th, 2022, so that we can provide an accurate dinner  count to the banquet facility & pay our bill for the dinners we order. As always, cancellations are accepted and refunds will be issued, as long as they are received on or before Friday, April 15th, 2022. If , Class of 1970.have already made your reservation & payment, we thank you. If not, please do so, according to the schedule, as soon as possible. George Matsukis, Class of '70. 

Downloadable banquet notice:    2022 Gaels Alumni Banquet Announcement

(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) 

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Location: Abbington Distinctive Banquets; 3 S. 002 Illinois Route 53; Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137. (Contact: Kathy Koutsogiannis) @ (630) 942-8600.

Cost: $ 50.00 per person, including Open Bar, with pre-paid advance reservation. Pre-payment is required for ALL reservations & must be received by August 28, 2020. -- All checks should be made payable to: St. Philip Alumni Association. (Please include your graduation year and dinner choice on your check.) Online payment is now available for your convenience. A "Pay Online" button is provided on the reservation form confirmation page, that will direct you to our "secure shopping cart."

Menu: Main Entrée Choices

Roast Prime Rib of Beef (Medium) with sea salt, cracked pepper with Natural Au Jus and Whipped Horseradish on the side. (Default, by tradition)

Chicken Vesuvio with Vesuvio Sauce.

Broiled Orange Roughy with Cheron Sauce & Fresh Parsley.

All dinners include: Unlimited Merlot & Chardonnay wine, Bread & Butter, Antipasto Platter, Abbington Salad with House Dressing, Mostaccioli served family style, Julienne Vegetable Medley, Double Baked Potato, Spumoni ice cream for desert, & coffee, tea, decaf or soft drinks.

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RSVP: Rick Iaccino, '65 @ 24/7 | [Voice/Text] (847) 250-7697, or [email protected]

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Please read the following instructions completely & carefully.

To aid in the reservation process, we've provided two online reservation forms, for immediate, electronic transmission of your reservation. This is the preferred method of reserving your place and dinner. It also helps us verify and update your contact information in our records, and also helps to contain and reduce future costs, so we can maintain this great price, for future banquets.

You may use the "EXPRESS" Reservation form, ONLY, if you attended the last banquet, and there has been no change to any of your contact information (e.g. address, phone (s) or email addresses). If you did not attend the last banquet, or if there has been ANY change to your contact information, please use the "STANDARD" form, so that we can update your contact information for future event notices.

This is also the place to send your regrets (although, we really do hope you'll attend), and also convey any special greeting or messages you want to share with your brother Gaels. Just complete the "STANDARD" form, and we'll handle your regrets and/or your messages.

If you aren't sure whether you'll be able to attend, make your reservation anyway. We will accept cancellations through Friday, August 28th. We need as accurate a count of the total number of dinners, and each dinner selection, as is possible, by this date, so if you reserve and find that you can't attend, you can either email us, call us, or just use the "STANDARD" form to cancel your reservation, by entering "Cancel" in the "Special Needs or Special Messages" field at the bottom of the form.

Please make note of the following new payment and seating assignment process:

PLEASE DO NOT SHOW UP AT THE DOOR WITHOUT A PRE-PAID RESERVATION AND EXPECT OR DEMAND TO BE SEATED WITH YOUR CLASS, AS THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE, SINCE SEATING ASSIGNMENTS BEGIN ON AUGUST 28TH, 2020. ALL RESERVATIONS AND PRE-PAYMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THIS DATE TO GUARANTEE SEATING WITH YOUR CLASS. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!!

Seating assignments will be made to "class assigned tables" based upon the date of receipt of your reservation, AND the date of receipt of your payment. Table assignments will be printed on your master ticket along with your dinner choice. All tickets will be presented to your server, at the time dinner is served.

All pre-payments must be received by August 28th, 2020, to complete the reservation process. At-the-door payments will no longer be accepted.

We must pay for all dinners we order. Dinners ordered, not served, and not paid for by the reserver, must still be paid for by us. Please be considerate of us and your classmates, as we must all take the loss if you reserve, and simply don't show, without cancelling your reservation in advance of the banquet. Refunds will not be made unless cancellation is made on or before Friday, August 28, 2020.

A few words of caution/instruction about completing the form.

All fields marked "Required Response," MUST be completed, or a choice made, or the form will not allow you to submit.

All fields marked "Not Required," are optional fields that may be left BLANK, but you must CLEAR any text that is already in the field.

Use only your mouse, or TAB key, to navigate to each field. Use your mouse to highlight and remove any "default" text already in a field. DO NOT USE THE "ENTER" KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD, TO MOVE TO THE NEXT FIELD, AS THIS WILL CAUSE THE COMPUTER TO "THINK" YOU ARE FINISHED AND WISH TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES. YOU WILL CONSEQUENTLY RECEIVE AN ERROR MESSAGE, REFERRING YOU TO AN INCOMPLETE, REQUIRED FIELD, AND MAY RESET TO FORM AND CLEAR ALL OF YOUR ENTRIES DUE TO THIS ERROR.

When you finish, and click the "SUBMIT" button, you should get a Form Confirmation page. You may print this page, if you wish. Please use the "Return to the form" link at the bottom of this page, and do not use the "BACK" button on your browser, to "toggle" back and forth between the form and the confirmation, as this will "re-send" the information each time you toggle back to the confirmation page.

You will need to submit this form only once, for each person attending, or sending "Special Messages."

Thanks for your support of our efforts to expedite the handling of your reservation, and continuing efforts to keep your contact information current and regularly updated.

Until we see you at the banquet, Gaels Forever!

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