I’m back and will get “caught up” by this weekend. I’ve got a number of emails to look through and will have more information posted as soon as I can.

Hello from Kansas City, MO. I’m going to be a little light on the blog activity until the middle of next week at least so keep on commenting and emailing your ideas and suggestions. I’m at back to back annual conventions and then it’s off to the woods for a couple days (to hide out from the real world).

Thanks to everyone who’s visited. Tell others. It’s a word of mouth thing!

More writers for RamsReunion2006. I didn’t think of this before but I can set up user accounts which will let people other than me post their own articles to the blog. I’m open to the idea if you are.

I don’t think we want to have too many people doing it for a couple of reasons. Mainly for manageability. I’m going to set Nancy up as one.

If you’d like to become a “user” and write your own articles please email me and I’ll get it set up. There are some guidelines I’ll need to provide you with that have to do with things like images but I’m not too worried about it. I’ll still be the blogmaster, which means I have complete control!!!!

I just heard from Maryalice Sutcliffe DeCamp (Pennsylvania) for the first time in 30 years. The word is getting around.

So who knows what happened to all the teachers who were there when we were? Do we want to invite them? How do we find them?

I see Mr. Sherman was mentioned in the comments too. What was our (affectionate) nickname for him? Sherm the ???

Other teacher nicknames?

One idea that has come up is to see who your favorite teacher was and why. Here’s some random names:

Mr. Edward Brown
Mr. James Henson
Mrs. L. Bell
Miss Kay Criner
Mr. Ed Repulski
Mr. Jack Crew
Mr. Joseph Bauman
Mr. Sherman Stratton
Mrs. Betty Sanders
Mr. Kevin Flynn
Mr. Charles Brooks
Mrs. Sandra Feinsod
Miss Barbara Reed
Mr. Rober Marvin
Mrs. Joan Tatum

Who are they and do you remember any of them? Feel free to comment and mention others. I know pictures would be good but I’m not in a scanning mood right now. Be nice (or not).

This may be a little small but you get the “picture.” Actually Bennie has sent in some photos and this is one of them. Please feel free to submit your own from anytime, including way back when.

No date yet for those who have asked. I’m sure that will be forthcoming though. Be patient.

Bennie Barton saw my post showing Cindy’s and my picture from on our 25th wedding anniversary so he sent one in from his. Now Bennie, it would help if you gave me your wife’s name! I’ll let you add that as a comment.

So here’s the Barton’s on their 25th wedding anniversary somewhere in either Canada or Alaska.

BTW, I”m sure Bennie will be working on reunion activities according to his email. Bennie’s got an advertising agency in Sarasota which you can find at Marketing By Design. You can email him for all your communications needs.

Well the secret is out and now many of you are aware of the blogmonster. I’m certainly looking for ideas and content (pics, etc.). They’ve already started rolling in. I’ll post as I have time.

Here’s the announcement from our fearless reunion leader:

1976 RHS 30-Year Reunion!!!

Just wanted to let everyone know that plans are underway for our 30-year RHS class reunion! Please contact me with any questions or with any ideas you’ve got for making this an especially memorable reunion. Also, if you’d like to be involved with planning in some way, let me know that as well. I will be posting frequently here to let everyone know how things are going and what kind of help and input is needed.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Nancy Tatom

Do you remember eating cafeteria food? What was your favorite or least favorite? Whatever it was the menu has changed. Here’s what’s on it for tomorrow:

Pizza

Turkey Submarine

Egg Salad Platter

Spinach/Garden Cup

Fresh Fruit Cup/ Peaches

Chilled Orange Juice

What ever happened to hamburgers, french fries, tater tots, etc.? What is spinach/garden cup and what self-respecting teen would eat it? The pizza sounds okay, as long as there’s some major amounts of cheese and pepperoni on it!

Well I thought I could send out an announcement by email through Classmates to those of us who have an account there. However, they don’t let you do that. It’s part of their wanting to keep you in their system.

I haven’t heard anything lately from our committee so I’m not sure where things stand but hopefully we’ll have more news soon.

New feature enabled on Rams Reunion. Now you can subscribe and automatically get all the updates. How you ask? Well, first you need a news aggregator like NewsGator or Bloglines. They’re free or you can pay a small fee for the expanded versions. They’re easy to install and use.

Once you have one of these babies (I use NewsGator), then you subscribe to the “Site Feed,” which you’ll find in the right sidebar. You’ll want to insert the url for the feed – /wp-rss2.php – into the correct place in the news aggregtor software you’re using.

Then all you have to do is check your feeds and you’ll get any updates I post to the site! It’s really easy and if you have any questions just email me.

I’m really looking forward to developing this site some more. We need to get some information on the reunion but I know that we’re still in planning.

My wife, Cindy, had her 30th reunion this past month and started a blog about it. You can see what she’s doing with it here.

I will start looking for some more stuff to post and would welcome anything you’d like to send me.

I didn’t even know there was a website for the Riverview High School Kiltie Band until I just found it on Google. Check it out. It needs some updating but it’s got a lot of pages and information and a few pics.

How many of you know about Fig Newtons? Do you remember anything about Fig Newtons from high school? If so, you need to make a comment and let us know.

A little trivia. When were Fig Newtons first made?

I definitely didn’t look like this 30 years ago. This is me with Cindy just a couple weeks ago in Switzerland on a little R & R for our 25th wedding anniversary.

I hope you’ll use the “comment” feature on the site to write in your own thoughts as I get information posted. I want to hear from you and I’ll post pics, information, etc. Just email me at: chuck@zimmcomm.biz.

Looking forward to working on this Reunion Blog!!

For you “old” alumni like me wondering who our principal is today. She’s Linda Nook. Her contact information is: (941) 923-1484 EXT. 6400, email: linda_nook@srqit.sarasota.k12.fl.us.

For a list of all the staff and administration go to the Riverview High School website.

When I have time I’ll plan to post some “old” pics of administration as I can find them.

This will be the official website for the Riverview Rams High School class of 1976, 30 year reunion. Hang on while we tweak the site over the next couple weeks.