2007.06.27 Ole Deli
June 27, 2007 Wednesday
Ole Deli Asheboro Planning Session - Great to see 37 eager AHS '55 ers and sounded like we made some real steps forward to making sure we stay in touch. Eddie ran a smooth meeting, and we thanked Janet, Bette Lee , Diana, Eddie, Nancy York, and others for all their help in keeping us organized over the years. We also thanked the Brookshires for the fun times over several years at their lake home. (Any one else have a lake house or big yard/house for the future?)
We agreed to a 10 member calling committee and filled it promptly, after thanking Diana and Bette Lee and Eddie for making so many calls and getting a big turnout. this time.
We agreed we want to keep quarterly meetings on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Date in month to be determined
The next meeting will be at the Sagebrush restaurant in Asheboro. Its on Dixie Dr. in front of the mall.
We want to participate in the Homecoming this year similar to last year.
Nancy Hall reported our treasury is in good shape, yeh!
Our next meeting probably in September will be at the Stagecoach (I think that is name)
Lloyd Hamlet volunteered (ANN) to send out cards and emails on coming events. Don Redding agreed to keep up the addresses on line and provide LLoyd with address info. Also Don asked everyone to check the site at www.donredding.com/ahs.htm for address info, pictures, and other info (maybe news such as this) and let him know corrections needed. He cannot tell the name of people checking, but he can tell how many check so we hope to see more use in the future as a way of confirming it is worth the effort to do it this way; otherwise we need a volunteer to go back to the old way of keeping and printing and mailing lists periodically. You need the User name and password ( ask don, though he reminded all at the meeting, and think presidential, all small letters) for more confidential into on the web pages.
At the meeting we discussed the need for a "Health and Happiness" person to share with us life's major moments as Janet has done for so many years. The feeling was that someone living in Asheboro should do this, Please think about this and volunteer if you are able. I suggest you discuss this opportunity with Eddie.
(If I missed something in the meeting, let me know to correct.)
If you are interested, please check the links on this page so you are familiar with what we have. If you want to help with this site let me know. I am using Microsoft Access for the address list and birthday lists. I use a basic html editor for the web pages (specifically WebEditor 6). Our pictures are on my smugmug site at http://donredding.smugmug.com/School/42865 (Click here) Smugmug is the best site I have found for pictures. It give you a chance to view pictures in a lot of ways so mess around with various "styles." For videos, I have found a new site called PhotoBucket which to me is better than YouTube so check out at http://s191.photobucket.com/albums/z128/donredding/School/AHS%201955/ (Click here) Unfortunately viewing Smugmug and Photbucket without cable makes it too much of a chore, so be warned. With cable it is reasonably fast. Notice you can make pictures much larger or much smaller on Smugmug by changing to "original" or ""small" etc.. I have just started experimenting with PhotoBucket so I have much to learn there. 9:54
(DRAFT of Peoposed Email to Class)
Hi there
Ole Deli Asheboro Planning Session - Great to see 37 eager AHS '55 ers on 6/27 as we made progress in making sure we stay in touch.
See what happened at the meeting and at the same time test whether our AHS web site works for you.
Please go to the following link and let me know if our AHS web site opens; if you cannot get it to work, let me know what happens (as specifically
as you can) and we will figure out what to do.
www.donredding.com/ahs.htm
Think presidental for our User name and password (when you need it)
Thanks
Don
7/12/200
