TCHS Alumni News Association - Classes and Reunions

Classes and Reunions

Class Lists | Class Websites $10 | Reunion Support | Planning Tips

Class Lists

The Class of 1971
The Class of 1968
The Class of 1967
The Class of 1964: By Richard Curtis '62 et al.
The Class of 1963: By Richard Curtis '62 et al.
The Class of 1962: By Richard Curtis '62 et al.
The Class of 1961: By Richard Curtis '62 et al.
The Class of 1960: By Rees Clark '60

Class List Sources

The best source is YOU!

The lists in this section 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.

Class Websites $10

If you are a class committee or the organizer of a reunion, you can have a site at TCHS Alumni News. Classes that maintain their own sites with us or elsewhere are listed in the Sponsor Directory under Class Sites. If your site is not listed contact the editor.

Your site will have its own newsletter, image gallery, and contact tools. Your class list will be automatically maintained from the TCHS directory and linked to your site.

No special technical skills are required to maintain the sites -- no HTML, FTP, etc. -- just point, click, publish.

A small donation is required of each class to offset the cost of training and maintenance of the site. The donation is currently $10 per month - payable annually - (or FREE if at least 20 of your classmates are paid subscribers to TCHS Alumni News), plus domain registration and administration of $35 if you have your own domain.

(Yes, we know there are "free hosting" deals out there, but our system is designed to survive the original enthusiasm of the creator and be a perpetual contact tool and archive. Your class list can be fully integrated with our Roster, so classmates can maintain their own contact data, meaning you won't have to periodically track them down. To see why this is important, find the various attempts by searching the Web for "TCHS class" and see all the sites that started strong and haven't been updated for months or years, have no contact method or interactive services.)

To request a site, contact the association via the To The Editor form in the Table of Contents.

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Class sites have the same features as the alumni assn. site. They are easy to manage and integrate seamlessly with other alumni services. Your site can look like the main site or any other way you wish.

For information on currently scheduled reunions see the Calendar. We need your help: If you are a reunion coordinator, please put your schedules and deadlines into the Calendar. It's easy!

Currently scheduled (organizers have submitted these links): 1978

Please be sure you are registered in the Alumni Roster before jumping to a reunion site.

NEW! See also the Reunions topic in the News Log.

Reunion Support

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. We are happy to coordinate efforts with any professional reunion-planning company or group.

Please start by registering your reunion by writing to the editor. We'll use the information you provide to (1) write a brief article in the magazine 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.

TCHS Alumni News provides the following services at nominal cost.

Email to a class: $0.02/member, min. $25.
Email to a specially extracted list, $0.05/member, min. $45.
Postal mailings: Postage plus $0.15/member, min. $45; this service is available only to official reunion committees; sender must deliver materials to be mailed by prior arrangement only to our mailing center for distribution; mailing labels will not be distributed to third parties to comply with our privacy agreement with members.

HELP US find all 15,000 TCHS alumni! You can contribute your class list to the TCHS Alumni Directory. Class lists must be in electronic format. 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.

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.

Reunion Planning Tips

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.

Notes on Names

Maiden names. Before you children of the '70s pick up your pens to denounce our backward ways, please note: Our naming convention is not about political correctness, the battle of the sexes, income inequalities, gender bias, etc., etc. It is about making sure we correctly identify people and help them to communicate. 'Nuf said.