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Pushing for 1,000!
Jul 03, 2004 -- At this writing we're about to register our 900th alumnus. You can help by telling your friends about the site and encouraging them to register.If you or your friends have not joined TCHS Alumni News Assn., please do so this Summer. The low annual dues (under $20) help support this site, and any annual surplus will go to our scholarship fund, which will benefit graduates and their children.
Other Ways to Help
Write to your (C)lassmates
On the Internet, there is a very large commercial organization purporting to link (C)lassmates. Some of you may be participants. Now, we don't have a maudlin TV show about lost loves, and we don't have bulk email offering you credit cards and insurance, but we do care about TC and TCHS in ways that those (C)lassmates never will, and any money you spend there will buy new yachts for their executives, unlike dues in TCHS Alumni News Assn., whose surplus (if we had a surplus) funds scholarships for TCHS grads and members of their families. However, they do suit our purpose in that they supposedly have addresses for over six thousand TC alumni.If you are a (paid) member with user privileges on their site, why not send a (form) letter to all your real classmates registered there. That site lets you send about 20 messages each day to registered users, so under the worst conditions you could write to every listed member of your class in under a month.
Here's how to do it:
- Copy and paste the draft letter below into your favorite word processor. Edit to your heart's content. (Note the tricks used to fool the text parser at the other site; they will not let you embed URLs or email addresses, so we've changed their format.)
- Sign in to the (C)lassmates site.
- Navigate to your class list.
- For each person,
- Copy and paste your letter.
- Send it.
- Move on to the next person.
- At the end of each session write down the name of the last recipient. (If you're really an Old Grad, write it down in two places and put the paper in different rooms. Our editor reports that when you rediscover it, you'll feel really happy.)
- Repeat until you've written to all your classmates.
Adopt a (your) Class!
Several years ago, TCHS compiled an exhaustive list of all graduates. We would like your help in compiling that list in electronic format to enable us to identify all former students.The list is in book form only; copies were widely distributed in TC, and TCHS has multiple copies. Sadly, the data processing that preceded it is lost. Here's what we hope you or your classmates might be willing to do.
Each class has from 250 to 400 graduates. We need the names and contact data typed into a database, so that we can simplify the registration procedure. This would involve listing each entire class, with personal links to a registration form with partially completed data.
A spreadsheet format will be made available to anyone undertaking a class project.
If each class were divided among ten typists, it would take each person less than one hour to complete the assignment.
TCHS Teachers: This would be a perfect training project for typing or data management courses.
All contact data collected will be held in strict confidence and would not be published on the 'net. Only the association's officers and editors would have access.
Contact the editor for additional information and requirements.
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