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The Class of 1959 is planning their 50th. Please send address info to William Bridson via the Alumni Directory.

http://www.wayne.k12.ny.u…/internship.htm

As part of our commitment to excellence in preparing our students for the future, Wayne Central now mandates each student to complete a 40 hour unpaid, career focused internship. This experience allows the students to become directly involved in the workplace setting, apply classroom skills in real world situations and gain a better idea of the type of career they may or may not want to pursue.

In order for this program to be successful we need your help! We are specifically looking for you as alumni, community members and professionals to become mentors for our students. This is your chance to give back to the community, the school and reacquaint yourself with the Wayne Central High School.

As a mentor for the Internship Program you would be required to:

• Mentor your student at your workplace
• Jointly establish goals and objectives for the internship
• Share your expertise
• Provide a safe working environment
• Define areas of confidentiality with the intern
• Complete an evaluation of the intern
• Keep in contact with the school’s Internship Coordinators

For more information please browse our website at :
www.wayne.k12.ny.us/modelschools/internship.htm

If you are interested in becoming a mentor please contact one of the Internship Coordinators; either Sarah Francis at (315) 524-1185 or sfrancis@wayne.k12.ny.us or Scott Bradley at (315) 524-1183 or sbradley@wayne.k12.ny.us.

Scott Bradley

Just a couple items about the website:

• The problem with the symbol showing up everywhere or else not at all has been fixed. New listings in the last two weeks or so have the new symbol and all future new listings will and then be displayed for 3 weeks.
• Along with that improvement, updated listings will not be lumped together with new ones. Presently updated listings from today on will have a symbol displayed for 3 weeks. I’m not listing these together anywhere presently, but may later.
• A number of users have taken advantage of the Upload Photo feature, and from what I can tell, it appears to be working OK. Send me a message if you experience any difficulties with this feature.
• Working on a new Message Board feature which I hope to have ready soon. Rather than try to integrate an existing system, which can have some drawbacks, this one will be a rather simple roll-our-own type. Though the message baords never really attracted much use, I thought that one more attempt would be worth it.

http://www.waynealumni.or…40th%20Reunion/

Here is a link to Photos from the Class of 1968 40th Reunion. It was held at the High School cafeteria and it includes some photos taken during a tour inside of the school.

Take a look at the pictures and you may notice Mr. Powell, Mr. Cataldo, and Mr. Taber.

Thanks to Fred Miller for the photos (and the lunch!!).

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The Class of 1979 has set a date for their 30th Reunion. The date will be November 28, 2009. More information to follow. Until then, anyone who wants more information can email Debbie Lynch at dreynol1@rochester.rr.com or contact Theresa Congelosi at theresacongelosi@yahoo.com.

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.