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Hello FHS-80!
Well, spring is here, tax day
is here, and our website has been operational for three months now ... our
first 90 days are behind us. It's been a fun three months for me and I
hope for you as well. A very quick chart will show, cumulatively, what
we've accomplished during this time.
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60 days |
90 days |
| Classmate Updates |
27 |
43 |
| Children accounted for |
42 |
69 |
| Web site "hits" |
1,000+ |
2,000+ |
| Classmates Honored |
2 |
5 |
| Classmates Located |
85 |
119 |
But the chart doesn't show the real happenings here. Old friends are
connecting again after sometimes lengthy intermissions. People who may not have known
each other in high schools are, nevertheless, sharing their stories ...
their accomplishments and their struggles ... with one another.
In just the last thirty days,
- we've officially welcomed 34 new classmates into the ranks of the
"located" and we've read the stories 16 more.
- We've been blessed by the contribution of the entire set of
Minerva
Deland Yearbooks and a ...
- class photo from West Ave in 1974 (thanks, Laurie!).
- We've been treated to two sets of reunion photos, one from 1985 and
one from 2000 (thanks, Laurie and Kathi!).
- We've seen some new (old?) sports photos,
- been treated to a selection of
poetry and sculpture from two of our
classmates and ...
- we've seen one of our classmates
written up in the D&C.
- And fun it's been to receive current photos from
WW,
LJ,
LL,
MK,
PA,
PD, and
MC!
- We've also been reminded of some honors received by some of our old
teachers and coaches: Mr. Martens, Mr. Fitch, Mr. Santini and Mr.
Lanning.
We've had a great month and an awesome start to building this website.
But there's a lot more work to be done.
The most important task ahead is surely to
locate as many of the 420 classmates as we can who haven't yet found us! May I take a moment to
encourage you to scan through
the list of classmates
we've yet to find and ask you to check through your contact lists and
see if you can help us locate any of our old classmates? If so, please
send them a note or forward their contact info to us here at
cyber-central so that we
can introduce them to the site. Many thanks to those of you have
participated and shared, and to those of you who have visited and "spread
the word!" Let's see what we can accomplish in the next thirty days! |