29th Year
1997-2026
Over 2500 Photos
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From 2000 Wayne Eagle Page 40

29th Year
1997-2026
Over 2500 Photos
waynealumni.org
29th Year
1997-2026
Over 2500 Photos
waynealumni.org

From 2000 Wayne Eagle Page 40

From 1990 Wayne Eagle

From 1987 Wayne Eagle Page 61

Sad to report the news that Greg Switzer has passed.
https://hsnorton.com/tribute/details/3862/Gregory-Switzer
I don’t know how long Mr. Switzer was at Wayne, but I remember him from the early 70s. If you had him for teacher on the 90s or 2000s, post a comment.
This photo was from the 75 yearbook.

From 1976 Wayne Eagle Page 40

The Youth2Trades page has been updated. It can be found on the Give Back menu item, or at this link:
https://waynealumni.org/y2t
Also, a convenient way to donate online has been added. Visit https://givebutter.com/YOUTH2TRADES
From 1967 Wayne Eagle Page 100

Found this in the archives – the Class of 2004 trip to Washington, DC in April 2000. It was in a VHS video format, and is just still pictures with a music background audio track. The quality was pretty poor to begin with, and time hasn’t helped much. But better than nothing, so I used a video capture device to transfer to mp4 format. The original photos are probably who knows where, but they would be much better quality. The choice to put these on VHS was interesting, but I suppose in the year 2000, almost everyone had a VHS player and some smaller number of families had a PC with a CD-ROM player.
A link has been put on the Video Links page, but here is the video / link:
From 1959 Wayne Eagle Page 52

Wayne boys defeated Newark and Geneva to advance to the Section V Class A Finals. The game against Monroe is scheduled for 3PM on Saturday March 7th, at the Blue Cross Arena.
From 2006 Wayne Eagle Page 93

Just read that Grace Vanderlee had passed, at age 100. She taught 1st grade at Wayne for many years, in Ontario Elementary and Ontario Primary after it was built in 1962. I believe she ended up being the principal at Ontario Primary before she retired.
Here is a link to her obituary:
https://www.murphyfuneralservices.com/obituaries/grace-vanderlee
As promised, the 2007 Seniors Extras video that was part of the graduation DVD set has been uploaded to YouTube. Here is the video/link:
I had a couple of Wayne graduations on various media (VHS/DVD), so I decided to digitize them. They are way too large to upload and store them here, so I used YouTube and made links. I also found some videos on the Wayne Central YouTube page, and included links to a few graduation ceremonies they have uploaded.
Link is below. I can’t explain why 2022 is missing. I could not find it on the Wayne Central YouTube channel.
I also have another Class of 2007 video I am working on, but having issues, and hoping a new DVD drive may solve the problem. This affected the 2001 and 2007 graduation videos as well, but I think I was able to splice together sections so nothing was lost, though there may be some short repeated sections and glitches that cause short pauses in the videos in some spots.
If my new DVD drive solves the issue, maybe I will re-record them to digital.
This seems to be all I have access to for now. It is fairly time-consuming to make them, but if anyone has VHS tapes, DVDs or links to existing videos, maybe more could be added.
Here is the link to the page:
https://waynealumni.org/video-links/
From 1994 Wayne Eagle Page 51
