1st Post of the All New Class of '66 Photo-Blog

This will be a brief intro to the new Class of ’66 Photo-Blog, wherein all the Flickr frustrations can be put behind us. I spent the last couple days downloading all the pictures from the Class Archive –  one at a time. Yeah, you can upload them six at a time, but downloads. . .

I know everyone who never got on the Flickr site is anxious to see the pictures finally, so I’m just going to start posting them. Remember, almost all these pictures are larger than the thumbnails shown. Click on any of them for a full size version and download it rather than the thumbnail.

In appreciation for John Helms’ assistance trying to make the Flickr plan work, I’ll upload his images first. As I learned during the course of this exercise, not everyone has a huge store of pictures ready to be scanned and/or posted. I’ll try to keep my garrulous nature under control and only comment (at least initially) on the ones that cry out for something. We’ll see over the next few days how that works.

John’s first picture is the St. Eugene’s Class of ‘62, and after staring at it for a while I was surprised by the number of kids I met as freshmen at ACH. Comments are enabled, and if those of you in the picture will start identifying the class, I’ll add a caption with everyone’s names.

St. Eugene’s Class of ‘62.

Fritz, Lew, and John, ACH Reunion, 1987.

John kept adding pictures for me while we were trying to understand Flickr and it helped, but Flickr’s problems were too much to overcome.

John's Home Office.

JDH WebCam.

John's Monumental Moment.

Cannon Inspection.

Fritz on the Bench.

Our Gang, from the 1965 Lamplighter.

Route 66.

Those are John's digital contributions to the Archive; as I said, his generous assistance helped me understand eventually that Flickr was a dead end for our purposes and we needed a new tactic.

Still without a REAL plan, I think I'll just add some more contributions here then launch the Photo-Blog version of the Archive. Expect some minor tweaks to the look as we go along. It seems I'm never satisfied. To get pictures out as quickly as possible, I may put out more than one post per day. To keep up, you might want to type your email address in the "Follow By Email" window (above my profile picture) to get notifications whenever I publish a new post.

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I tried and tried to get hold of Brian Robertson and, just as I was about to give up, I got an email from him that said “I heard you were trying to find me.” After brief volley, he told me he and Margie wouldn’t be able to make the Reunion because they’d be in Ireland. I said we’d miss him, but mentioned he could send me a couple of pictures from Ireland and I’d post them to the Archive and a few minutes later received an email with the two pictures below. I guess they were taking the scenic route to Ireland.

Margie and Brian in Antarctica.

Brian said Margie likes this one because it has penguins in the background.

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I just got a new picture from Suzanne, who said she had coffee with Steve Maynard this morning. Since this Photo-Blog is too new to have any structure yet, let's free-style a little. . .

Stephen and Suzanne having coffee this morning.