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RHS: First Success and Possible Goldmine

January 4th, 2008 by joby

I’ve found my first RHS alumna: Lindean Barnett. I’m not surprised that she was pretty easy to find since she has a fairly unique name — all of the first page of Google results were for her. Senior year, she was kind of a big sister to me — she provided some good advise a couple times and I trusted her (one of very few people). So it isn’t a surprise that she is an associate pastor at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Phoenix, AZ. And (of course) the pastors have a blog. After exchanging email it is great to hear that she is happily married and keeping busy, though with a family and flock how could you not be busy?

After connecting with Lindean, I resumed my search and may have found a goldmine in Facebook. They even have a feature to track down alumni of the same high school class. Looks like there are several people that I know. Very cool — and still free unlike the stupid Class/Reunion sites. Unfortunately, some of the people that I think will be hard to track down are not there…doh!

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RHS: Where are they?

January 2nd, 2008 by joby

With Shannon O’Donnell’s return to the King 5 Weather team in December, I’ve been wondering what happened to some of my friends from High School. I lost touch with most of them by the end of our freshman year in college, and the remaining few over the next couple years. I haven’t seen anyone from RHS (except Shannon and Alison Grande on TV) since the reunion.

The class reunion sites would be an excellent resource, but I don’t really trust them to have current contact information — and most require a pay subscription to be able to do anything. So, I’ll test out my googling skills to see who I can track down and I may resort to using the reunion sites if unsuccessful. Unfortunately tracking down people can be difficult, particularly if they have a common name — Neil Hanson is going to be quite hard to track down without assistance.

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