I started this as a response to Chairboy’s reunion thread and then realized that it would have been a highjack. So hear it is in its own thread.
This is a high school reunion web site that I highly recommend:
http://classreport.com/ Unlike other “reunion” and “classmates” sites, there is no fee, spam email and no ads. It is financed 100% through donations. The fee sites never work because the vast majority of folks won’t even shell out a buck, let alone 40, to find seven email addresses of folks that they kind of knew in high school (some of which will be obsolete) who also were duped into spending a lot for a lousy service. This site works because most folks are willing to register and send in basic info if it’s free and easy. It’s also based on individual classes. Many send in biographies.
I became the volunteer class administrator for my school and year. It has cost me nothing but time, mostly reading classmate’s bios. The administration technically is very simple and you can put as much or as little into it as you want. You can also have assistant administrators, one of mine did a lot to make the site great and she also tracked down dozens, if not a hundred, classmates. We have found over 2/3 of our class; our reunion last summer went very well and we had a great turn out. Personally, I enjoyed our class site more than the reunion because I could absorb information at a reasonable rate. After a reunion you can be so swamped with information that it’s hard to recall who’s done what, who has how many kids or who the lesbians are, etc. With this site you can read a bio or two a day, and come back to them whenever you want to recall something.
Check it out. You may find your school, but you probably won’t have a class administrator for your year. Just sign up to become your year’s administrator and get the ball rolling. It takes several months for the word to spread, but within a year you will be able to read what many of your classmates have been up to.
My class site (which has been pretty dormant since our reunion last summer):
http://www.classreport.com/usa/ak/anchorage/dhs/1984/eskimo
