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Here is a photo of the Alumni Basketball participants. Click for bigger photo.

Here is my best guess at the names:
Front row: Curtis McNair ’92, Ryan VanHoover ’03, Jerry King ’03, Spencer Schmitt ’05, Ryan Stewart ’08, Josh Britt ’07, Sean Moran ’08, Paul Marvin ’99, Nikki Sanchez ’00
2nd Row: Melia Harris Zenkel ’96, Sean Gillow ’05, Jay Hannon ’03, Randy Schenk ’91, Chris Schneider ’08, Bob King ’00, Coach Bill Thomson
Row 3: Tony Stavalone ’08, Erika Schnepf ’07, Dan Uerz ’02, Brian Miller ’00, Dewey Marvin ’94, Sam Weech ’96, Bill Doyle ’83, Bill Lewis ’72
Row 4: Chad Osterhout ’07, Matt Luke ’07, Eric Alvito ’07, Brendan McCallum ’07, Tim McBride ’00, John Cotsonas ’91, Shelly Sanchez ’02, Bryan Taillie ’79, Tiffany (Marvin) Cotsonas ’97

Let me know if I missed someone or got a name wrong.

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Scanned the class photos from the 76 Yearbook. Only Juniors and Sophomores since the Freshmen were in the Middle School that year.

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The class of 1969’s 40th reunion will be held Saturday, August 8, 2009 at Burnhams Canalside Hotel( Quality Inn) in Newark, NY.

Cost will be $40 single $75 for two. Rooms are being held at a discount price of $85 per night till July. Phone the Quality Inn at 315-331-9500 for reservations, it’s still the only full service hotel in Wayne County!! Further details will be coming with hopes of Friday night activities too. questions contact Mindy Pellegrino or Carol Royall via the Alumni Directory.

With the advent of new social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, it makes websites like waynealumni.org slightly less relevant. Though I have added some features to like photo uploads and contacting classmates without disclosing email addresses, with a part-time unpaid staff of one, and frankly, doesn’t know much about programming, has a hard time keeping up with the features that a site backed by venture capitalists, advertising revenue, and zillions of programmers. It is not a surprise that more recent graduates have a large presence on Facebook and MySpace, and less so here. Overall, they still have less Wayne Central users than we do, but the tide is turning. Hey, even I have a Facebook page.

So what does this mean for this site? Probably not much for now. I may be more inclined to concentrate on things that would be of interest to Wayne Alumni other than “social networking” features. That would be more alumni news, yearbook photos, etc.

I have however, included a place on the Registration form to allow users to indicate whether they have a Facebook or MySpace listing. There is a column in the Alumni Directory that will indicate a Facebook listing with this icon and a MySpace listing with . They are linked to those sites, but you will have to search for the user. It’s too complicated to create a link to individuals (at least for now).

Existing users can indicate their own Facebook or MySpace presence by Updating your listing.

Hello everyone,

The Wayne Central Basketball Alumni game is set for January 3, 2009 @ 11:30 in the new gym at the high school. Games and teams will be set up similar to last year so there will be time to rest and socialize between games.

There is a $10 donation fee you can pay that day to the Basketball Booster Club and all participants will receive an Alumni Basketball shirt. This donation helps support and improve the girls and boys programs all year!

The pancake breakfast will be held from 8:30-11:00 that morning in the high school cafeteria, tickets are $7 if anyone is interested- please spread the word to family and friends.

Please respond as soon as possible to let us know if you will be joining us. This is helpful so we can have a general idea of teams before game day! Also, PLEASE pass this info along to any other basketball alumni- we have only sent this to people who gave us their email last year- we know there are many others out there who may want to play!

Thank you!
We are looking forward to seeing you all soon.

John and Tiffany Cotsonas
585-737-5304
call or email us with any questions

http://www.waynealumni.or…1976/index.html

Here are some photos from around 1974. Includes people from the Classes of 1974-76. Some were from the 74 Senior Trip, maybe 74 Junior Prom, and a birthday party. Thanks to Jackie Monahan who let me borrow the photos.

I especially like the fake alcohol gag gifts in a couple of the photos, because teenagers didn’t drink in the 70’s. And why wasn’t I invited? Never mind.

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It is with great personal sadness that I make this post. I have always been so proud of my sister, but I’ll let her former colleagues shine some light on what kind of a special person she was.

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The annual Wayne Wrestling Alumni Night is Monday Dec. 22, 2008. Wayne is taking on Newark and Varsity starts at 7:00PM, JV at 6PM.

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Planning for a the 35 Year Reunion is underway. If you have moved in the last 5 years or not received an invitation to the last couple of reunions, please send me your mailing address.

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Message from Derek Wright ’99 Class President:

Unfortunately I am far too busy to organize a ten year reunion. If anyone is else is interested in organizing, I would be very grateful. I have too much going on in the next two years and I would not be able to commit the time.
Thanks,
Derek Wright

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The Class of 1989 is currently planning their 20 year class reunion for the summer of 2009. If you have not been contacted by someone from the planning committee, please email CLASSOF1989WCHS@ROCHESTER.RR.COM with your mailing address and email address, if you have one, so that the committee can contact you with the reunion information! We look forward to hearing from you!

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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!!).