And More Features Yet to Have Come!
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Through the miracle of technology we have found how to add the senior pictures to the database, as well as how to add ANY fields we want. From this point forward it will be up to you, the registered users of our website, to "fill-in the blanks".
The new fields, all of which are optional include:
- Relationship Status (Single, married, 'looking', etc.)
- Spouse's/Partner's/Significant Other's Name
- Children's Names
- College(s) attended
- Degree(s) earned
- Field(s) of study
- Year(s) of graduation
- Occupation
- Employer
- Biz Email / Phone
- Job Description
We can see where some of you have already found these new fields and entered data, to you we say, "THANK YOU!" The more we can collect here, and if you keep it current, the easier we will be able to generate the reunion booklets. So keep us all up to date and maybe you'll find "new" friends... We can hear it now, "I didn't know so-and-so went to... worked there... did such-and-such!"
So, as always, you are invited to "poke around" and let us know what you think. We will continue to keep you abreast of the developments. Until then.... Go Kings & Queens!
"X" Marks The Spot...
This is the central info point for anything related to the Clinton High Class of 1980, so if you have news or photos to share, please contribute them by sending them to the "Postmaster".
Some of you may be saying, "Hey! Can't we do this all through Facebook?" And the simple answer is , "Yes, but...."
... Remember MySpace? It was the be-all-end-all of social media sites waaaay back in the 2000's. And now it's all but forgotten (Poor Rupert Murdoch, I believe he paid something like $35B for it and sold it in 2011 for less than $5B!) My point is, by maintaining our own site, we are not at the whim of the web. Until the Internet itself is replaced, there will be a WWW (that's world wide web) and we will have our own content and it won't disappear... we control it!
Not to mention, although YOU may be on Facebook, NOT EVERYONE else is (nor do they necessarily wanna be!)
The only way there will be new stuff here to look at is if you send it in. So let it be known that we have leapt right into the 21st century and we are looking for your content/comments. It doesn't matter what it is, if you want to share it, we will help you do just that. But remember "it takes a village", or something like that. So....
Pass the word and start cruising the "information super-highway" with us! (...that sounds so "Al Gore-ish"! You remember him don'tcha, he invented the the Internet!)
Who is this "Webmaster" Person?
Well, it's not really a secret, it's just that most of you don't know! So lets just put it out there... we're not going to say!
Kidding - KIDDING - chill out already, geez!
Back in 2005 during the 25th reunion a member of the reunion committee approached Mark Sorenson to see if he would be willing to put something together, based on the fact that he was a self-declared techno-geek. And you guessed it he said, "Um, er... Okay?... I guess." Well, with such resounding excitement, the project took off....
Here we are six years later and the site has gone through multiple redesigns, added features over time and come to represent just what it set out to be... a rarely visited, oft ignored, specialty website with little or no web traffic. But maybe that's exactly what we wanted, huh? Either way, we have declared it a resounding success (or at least Mark has.)
Seriously, go surf the web and see what you can find for 'class reunion' type websites. Most are pretty basic (read -- UGLY), others are less ugly, but don't really contain much. Over the preceding years Your Volunteer Webmaster has attempted to keep our site up to date and add fresh content whenever it's been available... which isn't very often, but who's fault is that?
Next time you do something mah-velous, and want some attention, drop Mark an email and let him (and subsequently, your fellow classmates) know about it, even if it's that clip of you on YouTube trying to < _________ > (YOU fill in the blank!)
In Danish "Husker Du?" (Pronounced HOOSKER DOO?) means "Do you remember?
Also the name of a 70's children's boardgame... and a rock band, too. But here it's a feature we are serving up to you to relive those golden high school "dayz". Here in our first installment, we will take you back to our Sophomore year...
September 1978 - we were headed to Clinton High School for the first time. Little did we know we were about to become the last class to enter CHS while it was still a three year high school. In the fall of 1979 our alma mater would start the year with a double dose of underclassmen as it switched over to a four year high school. Although typical today to have a four year high school, back in 1978 CHS was and had been a three year school for decades.
We had spent that last summer (if we were lucky) goofing off with our classmates from our respective junior high schools, all THREE of them... Lyons, Washington & Gateway, before becoming low man (and woman) on the totem pole. Sidebar: To be "low man on the totem pole" could actually be a good thing; in Native American lore, the position on the totem was NOT indicative of status or respect, low, middle or top, it didn't matter. It was up to the carver to declare which was the most important figure no matter their position on the totem... don't believe me? Google it! But I digress, we spent that last summer down at the Riverfront Park Pool, kicking back at Eagle Point Park (climbing the cliffs because of course, no one listened to their parents!) and in general in various forms of (harmless?) mischief.