A public list of active, self-registered members by class years appears on the home page. Additional details, personal profiles and contact options are available only to registered members. The lists above are simply compilations of registered and unregistered members, as submitted by reunion organizers and others.

TCHS Alumni News wants to help your class publicize its reunion and to help you communicate with your classmates during the planning, invitation and reporting phases of the event.

Start by registering your reunion by writing to the editor. We will (1) write a brief article for the News and (2) start a topic in The Forums (if you'll be the moderator; we cannot be responsible for answering questions posted there); and (3) add your event to the Calendar.

As your reunion plans progress, use the To The Editor form in the Table of Contents to keep us and your classmates current on dates, activities, etc., and on help you need to make your event a success. We also welcome your suggestions on ways we can be more helpful. Naturally, we can normally implement only those suggestions that serve all classes equally well. Fee based services are available for special projects.

By using our services, you save money compared to commercial mailers and also help us to keep our lists correct. Regular updating of the alumni directory by members and reunion committees is the best way to avoid the five and ten year pain of list reconstruction that reunion committees all know and love.

Scheduling

Reunions need not be held exclusively in anniversary years divisible by 5 or 10. Nor need they be in any particular season, especially when child care is no longer an issue.

Venue

You need not have a formal affair. A giant family picnic is a great alternative during peak child care years. (Make provisions for professional child care during the event to free yourself to talk with friends; this is a lot cheaper than another meaningless rubber chicken dinner.)

Cost

Target the middle of the range of ideas. Peanut butter sandwiches in the park and filet mignon at the Ritz will each alienate some of your classmates. When in doubt, go for comfort and inclusiveness.

Communication

ADDRESSES: Collecting and maintaining addresses is a lot easier if you do it continuously rather than in a last-minute panic. Your class can use our directory as a permanent repository; we can extract mailing lists as required, and we can send mailings directly.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Add your event to our Calendar and to online calendars in organizational sites to which you subscribe. Be sure you update those announcements as details change.

NEWS: A class newsletter can be distributed easily and inexpensively on the 'net. Include a registration and/or address correction form with each issue. Be sure the pages of your online newsletter contain a phrase like " Class of ... reunion" so that the content will be picked up by search engines. Low-cost class sites are available in association with this site.

Details

Hiring a professional organizing and/or catering service can help. Be sure that YOU not they are the owner of the data resources that emerge from the event. Specifically, be sure that you get a machine readable address list that can be adapted to your purposes, e.g., compared to your existing class list; specify the format of the data to be delivered to you. Ideally such a list should be delivered to you both during and after the registration process. Many "planners" use your event to collect mailing lists, which they then resell. That information should be yours, not theirs, or at the very least it should be a shared asset for inclusion in your (our?) directory. If they won't share the data, take your business elsewhere.

Changes

As your reunion plans progress, keep us informed on dates, activities, etc., and let us provide the help you need to make your event a success. Be sure your classmates know where to look for updates.

You can help develop this site!

1. Send us your class list. We will add it to our collection (right). Many of you have fingers, which interestingly can be used in combination with a keyboard and an email program to send us a list, e.g., the one in your yearbook. You can help even more by updating with married names and/or other name changes. We do not add people to the alumni register based on these lists; we wait for them to register themselves. When these class lists are available, people searching for their own names on the Web find the site and many register. Our goal is to find every alumnus, somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 people.

   The preferred format is an Excel spreadsheet; other formats include tab-separated files and SQL exports. If you don't know the meaning of those terms, please contact the editor, who will tease you mercilessly and then give you tons of help. We will request confirmation from each person whose email address is supplied. Other listings submitted in this manner will be marked in the Directory with a special symbol to indicate that the listing has not been confirmed by the alumnus.

2. Become a class coordinator. We can set up a Group for your class, and each enrolled member can be added automatically in the group. It's almost like having your own site; in some ways it's better, as it complements class information with information about other alumni.

The best source is YOU!

The lists on this page have been submitted by classmates. Each has been independently compiled. The editors have no way to independently verify the accuracy or completeness of the lists and are not responsible for errors or omissions. Corrections are requested. Please contact the respective class coordinator directly before contacting the editor. Some of these lists are smaller than the number of persons who have actually registered in the Alumni Directory. We consider the Directory more accurate.

We earnestly request your support in the compilation of a complete record. If you have been a reunion organizer, if you sit alone all forlorn compiling lists, or if you're just a nice person with some spare time, we could use your help compiling your class list. You can start easily by copying the list for the class and then adding names and sending the expanded or corrected list to the editor as the body of an email. Please type carefully using the format FIRST MAIDEN LAST, placing one name on each line and a comma after each part of the name. Naturally, omit the maiden name for men.

Interestingly, TCHS has no complete lists of students or graduates. They also don't seem to have a complete set of yearbooks. The temptation to comment has been suppressed.

Another source is a book compiled by TCHS in the mid-1990s that attempted to list everyone. It's not perfect, but it would be a good start. We suggested to the business teachers that they use the list as a student exercise in typing, but it seems community service is no longer a long suit in town. Oops, sorry, that bordered on being a comment.

If you acquired a copy of a commercial directory from Harris Connect in about 2007, there may be additional information there. We've found lots of duplication and obsolescence, but some classes have used the directory to advantage; perhaps you can too.