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alumnac.com Newsletter - June 14, 2010
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Ishpeming HS and Westwood HS Alumni Softball Brackets Posted
One of the great traditions in the Ishpeming area are the alumni softball tournaments that take place over the 4th of July each year. For those of you who are not from the Ishpeming area ... each graduating class fields a team of men and women to represent their class and this team plays in a tournament each July. Winner gets bragging rights for a year. These tournaments started 31 years ago for Ishpeming HS and are now being run at Westwood HS and Negaunee HS (as part of their Pioneer Day celebration). The brackets for both Ishpeming HS and Westwood HS are posted on alumnac.com. For those of you who received the bulletin from the Ishpeming 4th of July committee, a few of the Westwood games were changed due to conflicts with class reunions. The correct brackets are posted on alumnac.com. Also, for those of you who are interested, winners of past tournaments are posted on the appropriate school page for Ishpeming HS, Westwood HS, and Negaunee HS. Post Your Class Reunion If your class will be holding a class reunion this summer, now would be the time to post the details of the event. To do so, go to the page for your school and then click on the reunion messages link near the top of the page. Then, click on 'post a new topic' and post the details. You will need your user name and password. If you don't know yours, click here. Graduates - Post Your Class Roster Thanks to Jean Paquette for providing the roster for the Marquette SHS Class of 2010 and to Dale Safford for providing 2010 rosters for several schools in the Iron County area. If your class page does not include the names of those who graduated, please consider providing this to us. There are nearly 90,000 UP graduates listed on alumnac.com. For instructions on how to provide your class roster, please click here. 2010 NFL Schedules Posted The 2010 NFL Schedule has been announced and is now posted on alumnac.com. For those of you wanting to get a real early start on the 2010 NFL Challenge, you can make your picks for week 1 anytime between now and kickoff of the first game (which is on September 9). Over 2,000 Marquette Senior High School Members Membership continues to grow on alumnac.com and yet another milestone has been reached. Last week, Mark Willhite became the 2,000th member to join from Marquette Senior High School. MSHS joins Ishpeming High School as the two schools on the site with over 2,000 members. Thanks to all for spreading the word! Please support alumnac.com if you shop at Amazon.com If you plan on using Amazon.com for your holiday shopping, please consider clicking here 
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Post Your Class Information Remember at graduation when you selected class colors, mottos, etc? To add this information to your class page, simply click on the appropriate button on your class page, log in, and provide this information. Also, many thanks to Dale Safford for providing the class rosters for several classes from West Iron County, Iron Mountain, Iron River, and Rapid River. The names of over 86,000 Yooper high school grads are now posted on the site on the appropriate class page. If your class page does not yet contain the list of all people graduating in that year, please consider pulling out your high school yearbook and providing this list to alumnac.com. Click here for the specifics. Business Opportunity Interested in a business opportunity? Click here to check out Fortune Hi Tech (FHTM). Ishpeming Attractions Several local attractions from Ishpeming have been posted on the site. Click here to view them. We have pictures and basic information on these attractions, but would like to get more detailed information, if possible. If you can provide additional information about Old Ish, City Hall, Al Quaal Recreation Area, or one of the local churches in town, we would love to hear from you. Please click here to email us with your ideas. City landmarks and attractions can now be posted for any city on the city pages on alumnac.com. As an example, Hiawatha located in Ironwood. These pages are most interesting when both a picture and text are included on the page. To post, get your picture ready and click on the 'Add an Attraction' link on the appropriate city page. New and Improved Business Section - Post Your Business The business section of the site was recently enhanced with Marquette County restaurants loaded. This guide is intended to be the place where Upper Peninsula businesses are listed. Users can get basic information about the business - the address, phone number, and map. Users can get additional information (images, special offers, and links to their website) on business pages which have been upgraded. To get started, Marquette County restaurants have been loaded. Two of these restaurants - Congress Pizza and Ralph's Deli have been upgraded and feature some additional information. If you own a UP business and wish to load it onto the site, please click here and select the category that best describes your business. alumnac.com Partners with the Ishpeming High School Alumni Association alumnac.com has partnered with the Ishpeming High School Alumni Association to help with the distribution of Beacon Light, the alumni newsletter. alumnac.com is helping in two ways. First, alumnac.com will collect additional contact information to reduce the administrative workload on the Alumni Association staff. Second, alumnac.com has begun to post copies of Beacon Light. Alumni may now elect to receive the newsletter by email only by noting this on their personal information page. This saves cost for the Alumni Association and enables them to focus more on other valuable activities. To enable electronic delivery only, please click on the update link on your alumnac.com email and then check the Beacon Light box. Waterfront Property Available Interested in 295' of prime and private waterfront property on Lake Michigamme with year-round access on a paved road? Click here for details. Also available, a waterfront property on Sporley Lake. New Members alumnac.com now has over 17,000 Yooper members! Thanks to all for spreading the word to your friends and family. Click here to see if any of your old high school friends have joined in the past 14 days. Click here for more information about those classes with the most members. Ishpeming, home of the original two schools on the site, now has over 1,000 residents who are members. Click here for more detail. Please invite your friends and family to join. Cheers! Rolfe and Cathy www.alumnac.com is a site for and about alumni from all US schools. The site is filled with pictures, local events postings, and items available from local merchants and individuals. Joining the site has many benefits including access to email addresses and city/state of residence of other members, the ability for old friends to contact you via email, and a periodic email from us (usually weekly) that talks about the latest changes to the site. It's a great way to stay connected. And the best news ... IT'S FREE OF CHARGE. After you've had a chance to visit the site, we hope you will consider joining as a member (those who organize class reunions will also thank you). http://www.alumnac.com |