Greetings to all of you,
I hope this post finds all of you well and enjoying the fruits of your summer! With vacations and other summer obligations (along with family and work, of course) I know that all of you are busy and may not have time to catch up with our blog or your emails. Either way, know that I am thinking of all of you and that I am still basking in the glow of our great reunion.
After reading Steve Rosen's latest post inquiring as to everyone's whereabouts, along with receiving a brilliant suggestion (and lovely note) from our classmate Lisa Persky, I felt it necessary to change our blog settings to allow for more of a dialogue amongst our classmates. Up until today, the blog's administrators had to invite individuals to become authors in order to post and make comments to the blog. As you know, those who did not accept the invitation were able to read the blog but could not post a topic or comment to it, while others that did could post and comment. This was done to avoid spam and any unwanted commentary from those that were not a part of A&D.
In her email to me today, Lisa suggested that the blog settings be changed to allow for "anyone" - outsiders included - to comment to the blog. This means that those of you that do not wish to actually post to it can comment to the various posts that are made there, or if you have a post but don't want to be an author, can send your notes to administrators so that they can post it on your behalf. To avoid spam and other nonsense, all comments will have to be approved. Since I am not certain if the other administrators can be added to the approval list simultaneously with me, I have listed my email address for this purpose in the settings. I will receive a notice from this site indicating that comments have to be approved. Those from A&D classmates will be approved, but those from outsiders won't be (especially if inappropriate), and unless they are from other graduates that happen upon us or other interested parties. (I am still thinking about that, but I digress). As an avid internet user, I check all my blogs and emails regularly so all comment requests will be approved immediately, unless I am out of town or temporarily unavailable.
If any of you do wish to write to the blog as "authors", please click on my profile to send me a request to post. Once I get it I will invite you. Typically, the invitation will come from "no-reply@google.com You have been invited to contribute to________ ." To post, you will have to create a google account, unless you already have one.
I truly hope that all of you will be interested in commenting to the blog or posting to it. Our class is a unique and magical one, as has been apparent at our last two reunions, and that magic has generated many wonderful and vibrant reconnections for all of us. When I think that most of us were out of touch for 35 years but instantly reconnected at the reunion "as if we never left", I find myself touched by the bond we all so obviously share. Our blog serves as a means to continue to foster that bond, as well as to keep our classmates up to date on all news. I, for one, feel it important that each one of us posts and comments to keep that energy alive and vibrant.
Please don't be shy!
I wish all of you a wonderful summer and I send love,
Pina
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3 comments:
Hey, Pina, this is great. Thank you for allowing comments. Hello to all of my former classmates. You all look wonderful in the pictures Arlene forwarded to me! I've wanted to say hello and to to ask everyone and anyone if they knew whatever became of Ms. Fraser?
Hi Lisa -- I remember you well. I saw you some years after A&D in some movie and/or TV shows. What other turns has your life taken since high school? I'd love to catch up.
Hi to all of you. I am so glad that our graduating class has been organized, but very unhappy that I had to miss the reunion. Lori Halpern Miroddi had informed me of the reunion just after i had scheduled vacation plans that couldn't be changed last year.
I am SO interested in any and all information about the yearbook. Part of why my memory is so poor about my classmates is that I didn't have that book, or even many personal photos to keep the memories fresh, and having moved from NYC after graduating from Parsons I lost touch.
Judi Stein O'Brien
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