We already have over 1/3 of the class found. We stand at 99 "Found", 197 "Lost" and 17 "In Memory".

Certainly, we will go over 100 classmates found tomorrow. I wonder who that will be?

Yesterday I posted that we had 77. Shoot, I was premature on that call because Bill Kouri wasn't done for the day! If you look at the website you will see that we now have 88 on the found list. Not all of them have an interest in the reunion, of course, but it is good to see they are alive and kicking, none the less.

The Found list of classmates for Reunion '63 is now up to 77. I had to move Thomas back over to the Lost list as earlier reports proved wrong. Commins is checking out the latest lead, however.

Today is a banner day for finding folks from West Covina High School's Class of 1963:
With Bill Kouri sending in 7 classmate contacts; Blanton, Batten, Ahlstrand, Day and Cash, Harrison, Hamm. And more still coming in!
And Warren and Joanne Schifini today completing yeoman work finding and alerting classmates to the reunion. They subscribed to MyLife.com and Classmates and left a note about the reunion with each classmate on those sites! The Schifini's have insured that we will have a stream of classmates checking in from now on.

Sadly, two classmates, Anthony Arroyo and Barbara Mason, were added to the "In Memory" page. It was reported that they passed away several years ago.

Though we have found over 60 classmates in preparing for the 50 year class reunion we are missing key people, our class officers or most of them. Sue Hunter - Vice President is very present and accounted for and organizing the reunion. However, these MIA's must be found:

Bill Hartman - President,
Harvest Thomas - Treasurer,
Pat Skelton - Secretary,

In toto, the Class Council, 29 strong, has 11 on the Found list.   Class'63, "Where Are You?"

I will hope that through the year, up to October 4th, someone tells them or they realize the significance of 2013 and come searching for reunion information. That info can be found with an internet search for "West Covina High School Class of 1963".

Our website is www.wchs63reunion.com.
or contact:
sue.hunter@wchs63reunion.com 

Today, all of the Lost classmates were put up on the "Lost & Found" page at www.wchs63reunion.com. There are 241 of them listed there next to the Found folks. OMG!   Have we got a long way to go. More coffee! 

We've hit a bit of a slump the last few days locating classmates. However, on the bright side Sue Hunter emailed today that she has hot leads on the whereabouts of Wine and Gordon. Great going Sue, would be wonderful to hear about Laura and Marsha.

Currently, I am on a hunt for two classmates, specifically; Sherry Williams and Alan Kinder. Any info as to their whereabouts would be greatly appreciated.

Not to say these classmates are any more special than all the others we need to find, they just have friends in high places, let's say.

So, come on class, put on your thinking hats and help me out.

A classmate just emailed me about the difficulty of commenting on this blog. What the heck is going on I thought, how come? So I wandered around a bit and found Settings. Interesting stuff in there and one item was to click and allow public comment. Unknowingly, it was set for super secret decoder ring required. Well, I fixed that so now comment away (after you solve the funny word puzzle).

There is some concern that too much info or communication is bombarding classmates about the reunion. Classmates/Memory Lane has a purpose, make money. Those of use who signed on with Classmates have to learn to ignore them. Every time I visit their site I get 3, 4 immediate solicitations from them to "upgrade". Then their usual daily effort to help me find out who has visited for the low, low monthly rate of...

This leads many to block or put C/ML in the spam catcher, I'll bet. So, me thinks, even though C/ML sent out a Reunion Notice to those listed there in WCHS class of 1963, at my request, it fell on deaf ears in many cases. As for me, I frequent their site because I have this "need to know" under the guise of building the "Found" list so I put up with their noise. At the end of October I'll put them back in the spam catcher.