It was just over 15 years ago, during my first year of retirement from a career in corporate communications, that I bought a "Dummies" book on blogging. Setting up a blog was the latest new rage in using the Worldwide Web as a communication tool. The book showed me how to create this blog, Hiliners61, as a way of encouraging attendance at our celebration of the 50th year since the Class of 1961 graduated from Valley City High School. We would reach that milestone in 2011, but because of an "All-60's Reunion" being conducted in 2010, we celebrated our anniversary a year early, an event put together through a lot of hard work by our Organizing Chair, Barb (Sheppard) Lang and her committee. She has continued to organize celebrations at various milestone points and the "Lunch Bunch" luncheons over the past 15 years. Thanks, Barb!
We've found that Diane (Sauer) Hughes's newsletter works best for communication with our remaining classmates. So many have passed on - God bless their memories. As those of you who are on our Hiliners61 email list know, the newsletter is sent out via a PDF document to our entire email roster and Barb generously has those PDF's printed, mailing them to those without email. She continues to do this at her own expense, and we thank her for that service plus the donating of the costs involved.
WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS, NEW ITEMS WILL NOT BE POSTED ON THE BLOG. Exceptions to that "rule of thumb" will be the adding of new Classmate Interviews, updating the Remembrance List on the right side of the screen and the posting of the latest edition of Diane's newsletter. We'll continue those items for the foreseeable future. Beyond that, all new photos, announcements of events, etc. will be communicated to all classmates with email addresses through the newsletter, via PDF and printed copies will be mailed by Barb to those without email addresses.
The Class Roster will be maintained, as it currently is, by classmate Ron Morsch. and the roster includes a list of deaths. Updates will continue to be emailed with the newsletter and printed copies will be sent to those without email addresses.
As Bobby Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan, once wrote and sang, The Times They Are a-Changin' and that's certainly true for our aging Class of 1961. Through the changes I've reported here, it is hoped your Communications Committee can help hold us together throughout our ninth decade. - Larry Gauper, Blogmeister, 6-29-2023
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