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Here is a PDF of the 1978 Echo. Again, click on the color one for higher quality, slower download time, or the black and white one for lower quality but faster download time.

OK, this would have been cooler if it was done a long time ago when most people registered, but better late than never. When you register, or update your listing, there is a place to enter you birthday. Just the month and day (no, not the year. Most of us are trying to forget that at this point).

This is really just for fun. Anyone who has a birthday on any given day will be listed on the main Alumni Directory page. So if someone you know is having a birthday you could send them a birthday greeting. Or maybe someone you haven’t heard from in a while will send you one. But other than people I know pretty closely and anyone who registers from this week on, no one else has a birthday saved right now.

So if you have a password, go ahead and login and add your birthday. If you don’t have a password, try the FAQ page.

Once your birthday is on record, you won’t see the option to set it again which shouldn’t be a problem. If you were born on Feb. 29, all bets are off.

If you decide that you want to delete a photo you have uploaded, that can now be accomplished. You must be logged in, then access your photos in your listing like you would normally to view them. It is pretty straightforward from there. I will update the FAQ section to hopefully be more informative on how to accomplish some of the tasks dealing with passwords, logging in, uploading photos, etc.

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Since the Photo Upload feature was added a few weeks back, several people have taken advantage of the feature. As it was, you could only get to the photos by browsing the Alumni Directory and finding a listing with the camera icon.

That isn’t too convenient for finding out if there are any new photos, so a couple of ways to see recent Alumni Photos has been implemented.

1. To see all photos uploaded in the recent past (presently set to one month), click on the Recent Photo Uploads link in the site menu or –
2. To see who has uploaded photos recently, go to the Alumni Directory Main page, scroll down to the Recent Photo Additions area, and either click on the name of an alumni or click on See All Photos from Last Month

Hopefully this will make this feature a little more user friendly and encourage more alumni to upload some photos!

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.
Continue reading “Safari and Chrome Browser Problems Fixed”

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.
Continue reading “Alumni Association Event”

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.

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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.

A Bio is no longer required to view photos. Photos are still visible with someones Bio if they have one, but if they don’t you can just click on the Camera icon () in the Photo column of someones listing. If a camera icon is present, they have at least one photo uploaded. This includes all older photos that were emailed to me and added manually at an earlier date.

You’ll have to email me to have a photo deleted, but I hope to add this capability soon.

Updating your listing has been simplified. Now just click on Login/Update Listing. Login with your email and password. Your existing listing will display. Be sure to add password again at the top. Make changes and click Submit.

We now have a method for registered users to upload photos and have them displayed along with their Bio’s. Here is the scoop:

• You must be a registered user with a password.
• Passwords were introduced on March 7, 2006. If you registered before then, you need to obtain a password. Go to the FAQ section for more info how to do this.
• Click on Login/Update from the Top menu.
• Once logged-in, you should see a new link in the Top menu to Add Photo(s). Click on that.
• You will see a form to allow to browse to a photo stored on your computer. The title, description, and alt-text are optional, but obviously help classmates know what they are looking at, and help with searches.
• Images must be .jpg, .png, or .gif format. Most digital cameras save as .jpg
• There is a limit on how large a file can be uploaded. It’s around 1 or 2 MB, not sure off the top of my head. An error message should tell you if its too large.
• If you know how, please resize you images before uploading. Modern digital cameras over a couple of megapixels are much larger than required for web viewing. They also take up space on the server. 600-800 pixels wide is fine for web viewing in most cases.
• Uploaded pictures show up in your Bio. If you don’t have a Bio, please add one, even just a couple words, to be able to view pictures. This may be changed evntually, but it is how it is right now.
• The little camera icon in the Alumni Directory still functions as it has, it will display a single photo that a user has previously sent. This may be changed in the future.

With any luck, this will work smoothly, but you never know. If there are any serious problems, I may have to disable the feature temporarily, but will get it restored ASAP.

To check out what this looks like, visit either Troy Aman’s 1980 Bio, or Brian Donovan 1974 Bio. You don’t need to be logged in to view photos.

That’s all I can think of right now. I will post more about this in the Site Weblog for anyone interested in the boring details.

I will also make this info a permanent page somewhere in the next few days. Maybe the FAQ page.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Eagle…080411111r20651

I sometimes get emails from people looking for old yearbooks. This is one I already have, so if you are looking for this one, its on Ebay . . .