1974 Grade 12-3

Donna Dancer sent me a list of students and staff. She’s looking for contact details for most of those and she has about six months to do it. Obviously many people can be found by Google, White Pages etc, but apart from this taking time, many ex-students and staff won’t be found this way. It’s been well over thirty years, and half a lifetime can break many links.

So I’m looking for help. Or rather, Donna needs all the help she can get, and every person we can contact in the limited time left is a bonus. It might be something simple, like remembering a given name where we only have initials, or remembering a married name, or a career path, but every little detail helps.

I’m still trying to work out the best way of handling this task here, being mindful of privacy concerns. I don’t want people to feel they are being stalked, for instance. One thing I must insist on is that addresses, phone numbers and email addresses should not be posted in comments. Facebook or Twitter or other publicly visible IDs are okay – those sites have their own mechanisms to handle spam and other abuse. Send them to Donna, but let me know you’ve found them, so I can make a note.

As time goes by we can tick more boxes until eventually we have a shrinking number of “tuff” names.

One possibility is that I make up hundreds of sub-pages to present what information we have. At the moment, most pages would be just a name.

Not that I’ve got a lot of time myself, being a taxi-driver working thirteen hour shifts. but every little bit helps, and if we can get just one person to attend the reunion who wouldn’t have otherwise known about it, let alone made it, that will make it worthwhile. Just to see a smile.

–Peter Mac

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