Southwestern Graduate Makes the News!

David Campbell graduated a year or two before us, his sister Laurie the year after.  They were both on the debate team. Some of you may remember their family?  Anyway, check out what David has been up to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

How to RSS Feed

If you have Windows Internet Explorer, do you use the RSS Feed feature?  If not, consider it.  Here’s what it does:  It allows you to mark websites or blogs that you like to visit so that they show up in a list.  It also monitors to see if the site or blog has new content.  Items in the list that are bold have new content that you have not read yet.  It can save you a lot of time!  No more going to check a site only to find out that nothing new has been added.

Here’s how it works.  Find the site you want to mark, then click the RSS Feed button:

After you click it, you will see a screen that looks something like this:

Click “Subscribe to this feed.”

Next you will see this dialog box:

You can change the name if you wan to tmake it more descriptive, or arrange your feeds into folders.  Click “Subscribe” once you have selected your options.

You will get this message indicating your success.

To use the Feed feature, click on the star on the left side of the screen (not the one with the + symbol on it).

Click on “Feeds” if necessary (it might default to “Favorites”).  The items in bold are blogs or sites with new content that you haven’t read yet.

Be warned:  this will only be “remembered” on the computer you set it up on.  If you set it up at home, you won’t see the same list at work.  But you shouldn’t be reading blogs at work anyway, right?

So now you can mark this site so you can monitor feeds and keep up-to-date with classmate news and feel technologically superior to your neighbors.

Friends Forever

Friends at 5, friends at 50.  (OK, 51… OK, almost 52… but not quite…)

Read more about it at three posts on my nature blog:

• Mission Accomplished!
• Westside Overland Trail
• Serendipity

Once Sue posts her blog about it, I’ll add her links here, too!  Hurry up, Sue!

Athletic Complex Opening Celebrations

A note from Tom Priester:

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Dear friend,          

 

Southwestern High School will be celebrating the opening of our new athletic complex on September 19, 20, 2008.  As alumni you are invited to attend any or all of the festivities. The schedule is below, but we want you to know about this event early enough so you can make plans to attend if possible.

 

Since YOU are my contact person for your class reunions, will you PLEASE forward this to the members of your class that have e-mails?  For those who cannot attend, I have an aerial photo I can send via e-mail.

 

Call me at 716-484-9495 if you have any questions.  If you can’t do this and know someone from your class that can and will, please forward this message.

 

                                                 SCHEDULE

 

4:00 Fri. afternoon a cross country meet and a Girls volleyball game

5:00 – 8:00  There will be a chicken barbeque before the football game $7.00 adults $5.00for children

7:30 Friday night  THE FIRST FOOTBALL GAME ON THE NEW TURF

Official dedication at halftime

Saturday

1:00 – 4:00   SW Spartans midget football game

5:00   Girls Varsity Soccer

7:30   Boys Varsity Soccer

****** AT HALFTIME THERE WILL BE A PICTURE OF ALL ALUMNI WHO PARTICIPATED IN FOOTBALL,  SOCCER, TRACK AND FIELD, PLAYED IN THE BAND OR CHEERED, ON THE NEW FIELD.  (hopefully we can get a lot of alumni)

 

 

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Yours truly,

 

 

Tom Priester

 

Field Finished

Bryan Bucklin sends along this photo of the finished field:

He notes they still have to finish the track and fences.  Field will be used for football and soccer.

Thanks, Bryan!

We’re Too Young to be Grandparents!

The girl on the right is the daughter of one of your classmates.  She and her husband had a daughter on July 1… so your classmate is a grandfather!  Can you guess which classmate?  (If you know, don’t say right away… let others guess!)

Scoreboard!

Bryan Bucklin just sent this photo of the new scoreboard:

And this one of the football field:

Progress on New Stadium

Bryan Bucklin sent along these photos of the progress on the new football / track stadium.

This one is taken from the High School – looking down the hill to the new Elementary School.

This one is taken from the Elementary School parking lot looking up the hill toward the High School:

Why We Weren’t at Shaggy’s

There were plenty of weddings and graduations over the weekend that kept some from the mini-reunion.  Here are pictures sent in by Bryan Bucklin from one of the celebrations:

Craig Smith with daughter Jillian (Salutatorian at JHS) and wife Katie

Tim Anderson, Jeff Nelson, Craig Smith, Bryan Bucklin

Got pictures?  Email them to JenniferSchlick at excite dot com and I’ll put them up on the blog!

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Shaggy’s – June 28, 2008

We had a great time at the mini-reunion in Bemus Point…  I don’t remember what was so funny in this shot:

Sue Shaw Turnquist, Robin Young, Caroline Hedberg, Shannon Desmond, Jennifer Scott Schlick

Does anyone know the answer?  Caroline?

Suzette Fischer Paduano and Jerry Paduano, Caroline Hedberg, Shannon Desmond, Bob Schlick

Here’s the Group Shot…

Barbie Williams O’Brien, Rick Turnquist, Sue Shaw Turnquist, Robin Young, Caroline Hedberg, Shannon Desmond, Bob and Jennifer Scott Schlick, Suzette Fischer Paduano, Jerry Paduano

Many thanks to Suzette for bringing her camera and taking most of the pictures… except the ones she’s in…  hmm….