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A Note from
the Fairport1980.com Vebmeister...
March 15,
2002
Our First Sixty Days...
Hello FHS-80!
I wanted to take
a few minutes and several million electrons to write you a brief note
about the status of your web site. Today marks the end of our second month
of operation and I wanted to summarize what you have been able to accomplish
in that short time.
In the first
sixty days ...
through the
efforts of many very busy
mom's and
dad's, musicians, firefighters,
accountants
(during tax season, no less),
presidents,
vice presidents, police and
military
officers, teachers, entrepreneurs,
and just plain
nice people ...
... you have:
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Submitted 27
classmate updates with wonderful stories.
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Accounted for
the creation and/or care of 42 children!
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Visited the
web site a collective 1,000+ times!
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Submitted two
classmates for recognition of honors.
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Posted a dozen
touching memories of our departed classmates.
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Accounted for
85 confirmed email addresses. That's 15% of our class! In just the
first 60 days!
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Requested 49
site passwords.
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Submitted some
pretty great family photos.
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Contributed
some terrific reunion photos ... with more to come!
And you have cycled and circulated information about
this web site to dozens and dozens of our classmates. And who knows how
many emails have been flying around cyberspace reconnecting old friends
and classmates as a result of your participation in this project.
As the one pulling the levers and throwing the switches
here behind the curtain, I want to congratulate all of you on your
willingness to participate and to share and to just visit the site and
remember. If I had a dime for every email I've read in the last sixty days
containing the phrase, "trip down memory lane" ... well ... I'd have at
least two bucks! By the way, more than 300 emails have come to the web site
in one form or another in the first sixty days. I'd say the word is
getting around and you're to blame! I mean you're to thank, of
course!
You've made some wonderful suggestions and some awfully
nice comments. You've made me laugh and some of you have made me cry. It's
been a wonderful first sixty days and I don't know about you, but I'm
really looking forward to the next sixty ... just to see who discovers us
and joins us and shares his or her story with us.
For those of you from other classes visiting this web
site, please feel free to chime in through the guestbook. We've already
heard from a few of you in different ways and it's been terrific.
Those of you in the class of 1980 who've taken the time
to visit but have not yet shared your story with us ... well ... we can
wait! We're in no hurry. We'd love to know all about you and your family
and your business and ... all in good time.
There's this phrase that keeps running through the back
of my mind. Or am I hearing things? I don't know... "If you build it they
will come." It seems vaguely familiar to me somehow ...
It's clear that not everyone will be interested in this
project and that's fine. It is my hope that this be a fun place for those
who are interested to come and remember, catch up, read about your old
friends, and perhaps discover a few people you didn't know in 1980. We have
some remarkable classmates doing some very remarkable things and some of
them are talking!
Most of all, I hope this experience brings back some
great old memories and provides a forum for creating some new ones.
I wish you a wonderful spring 2002, where ever this note
finds you. I encourage you to share any ideas or comments you may have for
this web site. It will always be your contributions and ideas and
participation that will make this web site a place of value and a place
worth visiting.
Thank you for what you have already accomplished here
and for what you will contribute in the months ahead!
Namaste! |