Its 2005

My first reaction to the new year was "Man that was fast!" but Ive been sleep deprived and that might account for it. The next reaction went like this, "Holy crap, the reunions a year away!" then I had a number of other thought and a couple of beers while I set my mind in order and realised its more like 20 months away. There were a few thoughts about Frys's electronics mixed in the bag as well, but I cant relate those here, theres a cuss filter.

Now the real question is where is everyone? I have a sorta plan and need to round up a little cash to make it work, oh dont worry Im not going to hit you up for money, so relax and read on. There are some databases that are used by reunion hosting firms to track down missing classmates, last time I looked it was about 25 cents a search and you were required to take at least $100.00 worth. A couple of them want nothing to do with us unless we have paperwork defining us a non-profit and they want a form denoting this. Now theres a company thats willing to let us do this thing, we dont get full database access, but we dont need it, nor do we need the form, altho with new National Security concerns who knows if we can still do this a week from now.

Now when you search you define the search terms, it returns a list of likely hits and you pick the one you think it might be. If you dont get anyone on the search its free, but most of the time your going fishing for names. As you can see its going to cost more then 25 cents to find most people, Im thinking a couple bucks on adverage.

To keep costs down I really need to get the list of those we have updated, and a lot of you have simply dropped off my database so that e-mailing you ends up in a rejected letter. So for the next few months thats the project, to get whoever we have found back in our database and then go find the rest of the class.

Im not going to beg, but you can send me a e-mail saying HI, this is whoever from the poly class of 71 (or any other class as Im often asked if I can help find friends.) and I sort that out.
We dont sell, loan, or let anyone have access to the database, and I do need a way to contact everyone and get the reunion started.

Mike...