BACKGROUND INFO
Please read this full page at least once. The BHS-57 web site was created (in 2001) for access by the BHS Class of 1957 grads - including a few spouses of deceased classmates and a few classmates who moved away before Senior year and didn't graduate with us, but who keep in touch with many of us and attend our reunions.
Keeping in touch via email (versus postal mail) is quick, easy, and can be free.
Our email addresses first appeared in the 45th Reunion Memory Book. Most were changed, and others were added when the 50th Reunion Memory Book was published.
The BHS-57 email addresses (but not any other info) that were printed in the 50th Reunion Memory Book are now available to all BHS-57 classmates, via this web site, whether or not they have the Memory Book. (All they need is the email password.)
UPDATING THE EMAIL ADDRESSES
Not all classmates provided email addresses (even if they had one) for the 50th Reunion Memory Book. If they want, they can now share them via this web site.
This section provides additions, changes, and deletions to the 50th Memory Book's email information, (and you can print it).
Note: Classmates' postal mailing addresses and phone information are NOT included or updated here.
To update your email info, send email to Marilyn, clearly describing the addition, change or deletion to be made.
DON'T HAVE EMAIL YET?
Everyone should have and use email. It's a fast. easy, and cheap (can be free) way to communcate. (Don't fight it; you'll like it - once you've learned to master it.)
Some national ISPs offer free email service. Check it out. Ask what email services your friends use; have them demo some to you. (You don't HAVE to use the one that your ISP supplies to you - or the one that came with your computer. Your webmaster has used many email programs since the mid-1960s; she much prefers the "light" version of Eudora. It has no marketing junk to put up with - and it's FREE (supplied by Qualcomm.com.)
If you have an email address, you should be included in this web site's Update Pages so you can communicate with former classmates via email.
Even if you have no computer, you can still send and receive email. Go to your local public library to access your incoming email and to send outgoing email in their (free) computer lab. For a small fee, you can even print copies of your email at many public libraries.
Got a new email address? Send a brief email to Marilyn and give your name (women: include maiden name) and ask to be added to the BHS Class of 1957 web site's "Email Contact" list. The password will be emailed back to you. You can then check the BHS-57 Email Address list and contact others on the list. It's that easy!
Change of Email Address: Please let Marilyn know if you change (or delete) your email address in the future. This may be our only contact method for planning future reunions (if any) or other get-togethers.
SECURITY MEASURES
To help keep our email addresses somewhat secure, access to obtain the Email Contact listing pages is passworded. (Any BHS-57 classmate can get the current password from the webmaster with clues to remember it.)
All BHS-57 web site pages are coded to protect them from search engines' web crawlers (also called "spider bots" or "robots"), so the pages are not "indexed" into their databases.
It is impossible to stop hackers who would steal real email addresses and use them to send junk email to everyone. If you suspect that "email identify theft" has happened to you, send email to Marilyn. who, unfortunately, had it happen twice to her, and will sympathize. (Being a domain owner makes her email address more susceptible and desireable to spammers.)
You should NEVER open email (even from a recognized email address) unless the Subject line makes sense as coming from the sender. Spammers steal "real people's" Sender names/email addresses. Spammers' use subject info that is easily identifiable as spam; never let your curiousity overrule your common sense; NOT open spam email. Always use pertinent Subjects in your email so the receiver knows it's from you. Strange subjects indicate the email could be from a spammer, not your friend; don't open that email.
Do NOT set your email preferences or options to AUTOMATICALLY OPEN the next email in your IN box. The only thing the spammers want is to have their email sent to you OPENED. (Thus, they get a "hit" and know that a real person has the email address the spammer addessed their spam to. They continued to use it and even sell your email address to other spammers.)
Most spam comes from other countries, not from the USA. Use the country code to automatically filter that country's email directly into your Trash mailbox - unopened, of course. (This is explained in detail, with the list of dozens of country codes, elsewhere on this web site; ask Marilyn if you cannot find it.)
GO TO THE LISTING PAGES
Enter the password, then press your RETURN [ENTER] key or click "Go!"
Forgot the Password? If you don't remember the password, send email and identify yourself (women: include maiden name). Request the password for the BHS-57 Email Contact listing.
Password not work? First check that your CAPS LOCK key is not locked down; the password is case sensitive You must use the exact upper case/lower case alpha characters specified by the webmaster.
If the password is still not working, you may be using a browser that is not JavaScript enabled. Most browsers are JavaScript enabled by default.
To set your browser to be JavaScript enabled, check your browser's Preferences, Tools, or Options settings. In Netscape, look under "Advanced settings" to find the appropriate checkbox to click. Still need help? Send email to Marilyn, explaining what you've already tried.
New to using email? Read all of PART 2 of the Tips & Technical Info section of this web site before sending email for that info.
Use filters to auto-trash junk email instead of it going to your IN box; read email filters (PART 2-Item 5) in the Tech Tips section. Avoid web sites that set cookies. Clean cookies off your computer often.
Have fun contacting BHS-57 classmates