This page is intended to show what’s been added to the website for those of us that come back from time to time to check out the latest. The background picture is from a recent AlterFest.
October 2024 - Did you guys know that Kim Graham took most of the pictures that you see in the Reunions section of our website at most of the reunions? I stopped by her Mom’s house after the 45th+1 Reunion in 2021 to pick up a huge stash of them that she had packed away almost 20 years ago. I finally got around to sifting through them, scanning the unique ones and adding them to the website under the Reunions page. There are 12 new pics from the 10th Reunion (only had 3 before), 44 from the 20th Reunion, 24 from the 25th Reunion and 3 from the 30th Reunion. It is quite the chore to properly identify everyone in those pictures, everyone's looks, hair styles and body shape have changed with maturity! I encourage you to add comments if you have a story that goes along with a picture (makes all this way more interesting), and please correct us if we misidentified someone in the picture.
March 2024 - All the overexposed, underexposed and blurry photos on each page originally in the Junior and Senior Yearbooks pages were fixed using Photoshop to do that and reposted on the website. Added a few more pictures and memories to the Memorabilia page.
January 2024 - Scanned the rest (145 pages) of the Sophomore Yearbook and added those pages to the database and website. All the Yearbooks are complete and live on the website now. Rolled out "Add a Comment" functionality on all the Yearbooks pages, with captions/page descriptions for each page. Please add some comments to the Yearbook pages! It's fun and encourages others to contribute to them as well.
December 2023 - All 4 Yearbook pages were completely recoded to add "Add a Comment" functionality to them. All yearbook pages (about a 1,000 of them) had captions added to each page into the database that builds those pages.
November 2023 - This What’s New page was added to the website.
October 2023 - The rest of the Freshman Yearbook (about 130 pages) was scanned and posted on the website. On the new scanned pages, all the overexposed, underexposed and blurry photos on each page originally in the yearbook were fixed using Photoshop to do that. That makes the yearbook much better than the original to browse. The first 13 pages of the Sophomore Yearbook, the Freshman class pics and the Faculty pages from it were also scanned, fixed and posted on the website, leaving about 160 pages left to scan from it.
April-September 2023 - Of the 8 remaining “lost classmates”, Greg Frost, Sherry Gibson Petry, Chris Kelly, Beth Morgan, Jean Tamborski Strand, and Mike Vacketta were finally tracked down and their non-contact info was added to the database that builds the Class List and Alumni Directory pages. Only Greg Wilkins and Terry Wilson are still “lost” to us. Many classmates also have sent in “Update Classmate Bio” forms over the last 5 months, the info from those were also added to the database which updates that info on the Class List and Alumni Directory pages.
April 2023 - Memorabilia page was added to the website. Scanned and added the 1975 AHS Bulletin, Syllabus, and State Basketball Championship Brochure (sent to me by Mike Wildenhaus) for this page.
December 2022 - Initial release of website e-mail/mail to our classmates was sent. About the Website page was added to the website.
November 2022 - Legacy Gift page “donation thermometer” was updated to include classmate 3-year pledges.
October 2022 - RIP page “Add a Memory or Story” functionality was added to that website page. 10th, 20th and 25 Reunion Brochures were scanned and added to the database that builds the Reunions page. The brochures were also OCRed and classmate biographies from the 10th and 20th Reunion Brochures were added to the database that builds the Alumni Directory page. Still working on adding bios into the database from the 25th Reunion Brochure.
September 2022 - Back in the Day and Reunions pages “Add a Comment” functionality code was added and debugged.
February-August 2022 - Website initially designed. Home page picture slider added. Back in the Day and Reunions pages were created, picture sliders with thumbnails functionality was developed for them and coded with a little help from my web dev cousin in Cincinnati. All pictures were scanned and added in the database that builds those pages. RIP page obituaries of all classmates who have passed away were pulled together and added to the database as well. The 1997, 2003 and 2015 Alumni Directory “Class of 1975” sections were scanned, OCRed and added to the database that builds the Class List and Alumni Directory pages.
Monthly - Donated and Pledged totals are updated on the Legacy Gift page each month once that data is received from the Alter Alumni Relations Office.
Still to Come - Kim Graham loaned me about 40 pictures from the 20th Reunion that will be scanned and added to the Reunions page. Remaining 25th Reunion Brochure bios will be OCRed and added to the database for the Alumni Directory page.