NOTE: Safari is Apple’s standard browser with Mac’s, little used with Windows. Chrome is Google’s new web browser and not widely used yet. If you use Internet Explorer or Firefox, this wasn’t causing a problem.

At least that is my hope. I did test using both browsers, and IE and Firefox, and no problems. The issues were with trying to contact someone via the Alumni Directory, but no messages were being sent. The problems were not actually with Safari and Chrome, but with the script that was supposed to make it all happen. As it turns out, I was just lucky it worked with Firefox and IE.

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Here is a note from Chris Bray ’72:

September 22, 2008

There were twenty one of us at our annual gathering Saturday.

Graduation years ranged from 1939 to 2006, and we welcomed guests from Virginia and Maine! It should be noted, that the class of 1958 was celebrating a 50th reunion later that night. The weather was perfect, and as usual, the accommodations at Casey Park were excellent. The only thing that could have made it better for me would have been to have even more alumni present for roll call.

We began by looking at some old yearbooks, and scrap books. What a hoot it is to get that “blast from the past”. Our lives have gotten so busy that most of us haven’t taken the time to just sit and reflect on those “dear old golden rule days” in way too long! I can tell you, it’s way more fun when there are others along to giggle with you.

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http://www.waynealumni.or…nion/index.html

Follow the link for some photos from the Class of 1958 50th Reunion.

Thanks to Mary Lou Fosdick Mason ’83 and Mary Pagliuso Fosdick ’58 for the photos.

/pdfs/echo1972.pdf

For some reason I lost my mind for a moment today and scanned the whole 1972 WMS Echo (without a state grant too!). I came up with a process that is much quicker than I have been using in the past. This is a multi-page PDF file, so it is quite large (45MB). But I didn’t take as much time to straighten the pages if they were off slightly, or crop the edges. But I was able to scan the whole thing in a couple of hours. The bad news is, being quite large, it will take a few minutes to download and view, even with a fast connection. So I made a high quality and lower quality versions (the link above is to the higher quality version). The low quality version is about 1/8 the size of the other one.

I erased most of the signings, left a couple by some teachers (like the late Mr. MacDonald).

Thanks to Linda Bell (and Greg Bell, though he doesn’t know it) for use of the yearbook.

Higher Quality (slower) – Lower quality (but faster)

You need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer (free). If you don’t have it, search on that name.

I have some more Echo’s here, I might try some more, time permitting.

Date: Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Time:

• Women’s Alumni Game- 9am-10:30
• Men’s Alumni Game – 10:30am-Noon

Place: Porray Field (Varsity Soccer Field) Weather permitting Hope for good weather.

Cost: Donations towards the soccer program would be greatly appreciated. We are also planning on trying to begin an alumni association, which would be a group of former alumni and our first thing we would do each year would be to pick a team MVP and possibly give out a small scholarship.

Following each game food will be provided/cooked.

Each of you will also be given a ticket to get into the homecoming games that evening.

The game schedule for the school teams on Saturday is

• 1pm- JV Girls
• 3pm-JV Boys
• 5pm- Varsity Girls
• 7pm- Varsity Boys

We would also like to announce those in attendance during halftime, so please be sure to stick around, if you would like.

Both the boys and girls teams have been working hard this year and would like to see some of the individuals who put Wayne Soccer on the map in attendance so plan on making a day of it and supporting the current teams.

If you have any questions or ideas for the day please feel free to email me back. Also, I would like to get an approximate number of who will be there, so if you could get back to me and let me know if you will be there that would be great.

Thanks,

Jay Marino
Class of 2000
Wayne Central Boys Varsity Assistant Coach

https://waynealumni.org/basketball/hist1938.htm

Sad to hear that Norm McGowan OHS Class of 1940 has died. Norm was on the Ontario High School Section V Champion basketball team along with his brother Bob.

I nominated his brother Bob McGowan to be in the Section V Basketball Hall of Fame a few years ago. Though Bob had passed I thought it would be nice if his brother and teammate was there at the induction. Unfortunately the committee has apparently not felt Bob’s accomplishments were Hall of Fame worthy.

Bob McGowan left, Norm McGowan right. The other guy is reporter Don Hassett.

If you have an Apple computer and run the Safari browser, or have downloaded the new Google Chrome browser for Windows, some of the features of this website don’t work at the present time. Specifically something that uses a Contact form like trying to contact a classmate using the Alumni Directory.

It seems to work OK with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Hopefully there will be a solution found in the near future. Until then, one could download Firefox here if you would like to utilize these features.

I will post here when it is fixed.