New Year's greetings from the Class Webmaster
Happy New Year 2005, classmates!
Well, I reckon our silver anniversary year didn't work out the way we had hoped and planned it would. With the closing of 2004, perhaps we can learn the lessons of our failed silver reunion and apply them to future reunions and other get-togethers. I think the primary lesson of the past year is that we all have to do a better job of communicating with one another. Effective communication takes two and requires both parties to perform their respective functions to insure the message gets through. Our failure to do this is undeniable given the collapse of our 25-year reunion. Let us hereby resolve not to let it happen again!
And speaking of communicating, that's the primary purpose of East Forsyth Senior High School Class of 1979. Please check the site regularly and let us know you stopped by with a Guestbook entry if only to drop a wee howdy. If you have any information about yourself or a classmate, please don't hesitate to share it with us in a Message Board entry. Thanks for keeping in touch through our site and please be certain to keep your contact info current so we can reach you readily. Also, help find our missing classmates and tell them about our web site. This is especially true for classmates who are registered on other alumni sites but not here. If you're in contact with any of these classmates, please encourage them to join us here on our class site. Let's get the class directory up to 100%!
For anyone wondering where the class newsletter has been, I admit this has been part of my "failure to communicate." As the newsletter is primarily a recapitulation of activity on the site, I have always discounted it's usefulness and necessity as the information presented is readily available through simply visiting the site. I have come to view this notion as an error. I suspect that the only time many of you even think of the site, much less visit it, is when I drop some sort of reminder in your inboxes. This alone should be reason enough for me to risk boring you to tears and having my e-mails filtered into your spam folders. I'm entertaining the idea of putting the newsletter on a regular quarterly schedule, say March-June-September-December, but then I've said as much many times before, haven't I!
At any rate, my best to everyone for 2005!
(Source: Matt Wallace on Saturday, 1 January 2005, 15:30:00 EST)
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