Thursday, April 03, 2008

Hello PHS 69er's



Hello everyone...Mark, Dixie, Tari...EVERYBODY!!! This is about as much as you'll get out of me as far as "blogging" goes...I really don't have a clue. But I would really love to hear from anyone that isn't already emailing me...and of course, Karen, Dixie, Linda and Penny you must keep on. So here's my email addy: chrylnwtn@yahoo.com Please email me...and if you don't remember me it won't hurt my feelings at all but if you write either way I'll reply...probably more than you'll want...

LOL,

Cheryl

Oh yeah, and LOL is Lots of Love not laugh out loud

Sunday, February 24, 2008

"08" Stuff

Well...I recently hooked up, via email, with fellow '69' grad 'Dixie Hunt, and I gave her a link to this blogsite and told her that if she was interested, I'd send her an invitation to join FoPHS69ers. To do so entails coming to this site,and atop the page is the most recent entry - which was posted by Tari Styron Topolski and dated April of '07'..hell, that's ten months ago already! So I decided to add something to at least make it seem like this site hasn't been completely abandoned.

Reunion?
I've heard that there's a committee looking into putting together a '40-ish' reunion that would include classes of '68' thru '72'...that's all I know about it, if I hear any more info,I'll post it.
Now just one more thing...

Hello, Dixie!!

Saturday, April 21, 2007

New Blogger Hits the Web

Hello my friends. Mark asked me to join once before and I did not respond. I didn't want to have to send out a second apology to him, so I am trying my hand at this blogging thing. I must admit that when I left PHS I was happy to go and really wasn't sure if I ever wanted to see anyone from high school again. It was really unfortunate that I let the hurtful things of a few overshadow all the good things that transpired during those years of my life. I owe a debt of gratitude to a lot of people at PHS, even those who in their stupidity and need to make themselves feel better hurt me through their actions and words, because it is the whole of my experience that has made me who I am today. I hope that through this website I can rekindle some friendships that have been lost to time.

My life today is filled mainly with my work. I am a research scientist at the University of Washington in the Department of Health Services. My area of research is quality of life. I mainly look at how having a chronic condition (such as a craniofacial anomaly or Tourette syndrome to name a couple) impact the lives of youth with these potentially stigmatizing conditions. On most days I absolutely love my work, although on those days when nothing seems to be going right and I am feeling completely overwhelmed I wonder why I am doing this work. My favorite project right now is one that I am in the process of planning with colleagues throughout the US. The project is a multimedia social skills training program to help youth with facial differences learn how to better utilize their social skills in situations where they feel they are being discriminated against. I am probably very passionate about this project, because it is one that I think can help these youth feel good about themselves when others are trying to put them down.


Tari

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Added: Friends of PHS '69'ers Group

Taking advantage of another Google free service (Blogger is owned by them as well),we've now got a "Friends of PHS '69'ers" group too, hopefully, help make it easier for people to contact us, since this blog does not allow anonymous posts,and we have no site email address.The group does ,and it is FriendsofPHS69@googlegroups.com

The groups page is also a lot less website-like in appearance,so maybe it won't be as intimidating to make posts there for those who may be a bit blogger shy.

I heard that another 69 grad, Roy Mitchell, may drop by here, I certainly hope so, Roy and I spent a semester together in Tepic, Nayarit Mexico as exchange students and, there is nobody in the world I've ever met that is nicer,or more sincere person than he.
(Hi,Rollito)

Monday, July 03, 2006

And the geeks crawl out of the woodwork

I'm Jerry Trowbridge (PHS'69), and I was one of the easy targets for Mark Baird, because I've been around computers since the early 80s, and around the Internet since 1994. So Mark's biggest hurdle in getting my attention was finding a valid email address for me (I've retired a few of them because of spam.) I'm pretty much wired 24/7.

A couple of quick notes:

Maybe you remember the time capsule we interred in senior square? Well it was opened a few years ago; water had infiltrated and destroyed everything inside. It was replaced by paver bricks with people's names on them. I'm on one of them (thanks to my best friend Stan Kelton (PHS'70)), but when they engraved it, they shortened Jolly Roger Record Editor to Jolly Roger Editor. What a great way to get a retroactive promotion. My apologies to the real editors.

I'm in Palm Beach County, Florida now, and am heavily involved in the Internet and alternative media. If you're into net video or have a portable video player, you can see what we're up to at Walkie-Lookie. I also have my own blog where I vent my spleen about liberal politics.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

A Bit About This Blog and Posting

There are many of us elder types that haven't had much web experience outside of email,and are not sure what it takes to do this 'blogging' thing,or what it is all about...
Well...
This little article will try to give you the gist of blogging plus there will be a few links to Blogger.coms help pages for additional info,most links on this page and words that are both bold and italic have a further note on them that becomes visible when the cursor is held over them.

About that invitation:

What's that all about? Isn't a blog someone's online diary or log?
There are different kinds of blogs available,personal diaries are one type, there are subject oriented blogs and as well as team blogs. The blog sending the invitation to join is called a 'team blog',someone creates it,and then invites others to join.

Following the link in the email,those having a Blogger account will be asked if they accept or decline the invitation ,those who wish to accept the invitation and don't have an account will be asked to create one first.It is free,and it just takes a minute or so to establish one.

You do need to give Blogger.com your email address (it will come in handy if you ever forget your password), but you don't have to have it displayed online.Nor do you have to have your profile made public.

Once you've got your Blogger account and have accepted the invitation to join the team blog,you are now set to log in and start bloggin'


Member vs. Anonymous Posts

While the option of allowing anyone to post without restriction is available, we have elected not to permit comments or posts by non-members. Anonymous posting makes it way too easy for spammers to flood the pages with non-related garbage.

Becoming a member is easy enough,we just need your email address so we can send out an invitation,you don't have to be a PHS '69'er grad, or even a PHS grad to join,(we'll welcome anyone who cares enough to email us for an invite.)

Email us for an invitation
The preceding link plays a small flash video ,click on the words "Invite Me", when they show,and a blank letter (pre-addressed) will open up in your email program.
If you encounter any problems trying to sign up when responding to our invitation (and fail),you may need to have another sent to you,(invitations, by design, expire after one use)

Using Blogger


The Dashboard


This sort of control panel allows you access to your blogs, your profile,change your password and a few other items that may be of interest.While your logged in to a blogger account,clicking on the  
Clicking the Blogger Logo takes you to your dashboard when you are logged in 
Blogger Logo
(always at top left of Blogger pages) will open up your Dashboard.

Posting?
From the dashboard,select 'New Post',when the editor appears,you can enter the title and start writing your piece.See 'How Do I Post to My Blog?'

The Editor

In the editor that Blogger employs,you can either edit the HTML coding
directly,or use the 'Compose' mode,which is not unlike some email editors as far as formatting goes.


Highlight whatever text you want to format,(bold,italic etc) with your mouse, then click the desired icon on the toolbar.

If you wanted to make a link to 'blogger.com',just highlight the text you want to use for the link with the mouse, and on the editors menu, click 'insert link' (the one with the chain link icon) which opens a dialog box in which you type the URL http://www.blogger.com/.

Click the 'Preview' tab for an idea of how the post will look before 'Publishing' it.If you are not ready to make a post,but don't want to start over later,click 'Save draft'. Click 'Publish Post' when ready to add to blog.
If,after you've published your post,you spot an error,go back to the dashboard,and click "New Post" and from that page select the "Edit posts" tab,then click the title of the post you want to edit.See'How Do I Edit What I've Written?'


Comments

If you read an article or post and you want to ask a question, or make a comment about it,this you can do by clicking the 'comments' link that's just below the post.

Comment link


The comment post area doesn't have the editor that the article post area does,but you can add some formatting to your comment,like <B>Bold</B> and<I>Italic</I>. Precede the word or words you want to format with the <B> or <I> tag, and immediately after them (where you want the formatting to end) add the </I>or </B> tag.You can also add links to webpages in your comment. <A HREF="the_URL"> Link Text </A>

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Misc Items To Check Out




Notes:
  • If some of the editors properties are not visible,
    you may have a browser that does not support Bloggers editor.See Supported Browsers

  • After making changes to any settings, profiles and the like, remember to click
    "Save Settings" tab before closing page. Also remember to republish blog after making
    changes to it.

  • Sometimes you may find that your published post is not like what you previewed..if there is more space between paragraphs or listed items than you previewed it could be that the sites administrator has the blog post settings to convert line breaks (FO PHS 69ers has that it set to convert breaks)Try keeping the lines of text closer together and see if that helps.

  • This applies to those who edit the HTML directly:I think that the Blogger editor also likes the text and URLs, etc for links a lot tighter (on same line when possible) than some editors.I wrote this entire article offline with my own HTML editor, and all the links and notes worked fine, when I pasted in the Blogger editor online,half of the title tags (the info notes that show when you put cursor over links) did not work properly so I had to rearrange the text until it could read it.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Michael G. Cook

Mike,Sandy and MatthewMike,wife Sandy and son, Matthew, taken in 2003 when Mike appeared to have the upper hand in his war against cancer
Mark and Mike in  band 'Homegrown'

Mark Baird and Mike Cook in early 70's


In September of 2005,Mike Cook passed away after battling cancer for over six years.Next to his wife,Sandy and two sons and daughter,no one will miss him more than I.
We met in the fourth grade (Wirtz elementary),and within two years, we were best of friends.We discovered the Beatles together, and loved them in spite of their popularity.

Mike (lead guitar/vocals),Terry Coniglio (drums/vocals), and Richard Marx (bass /guitar/vocals)were members of the first group I ever got to play in.
BTW,Terry and I would like to locate Richard Marx,...Anyone??

For more on Mike, see All I Want To Do Is Rock