Ahh, the best laid plans. Just when you think you have everything all sorted out for the reunion, you learn something. The company you have retained to assist in managing your high school reunion offers online registration for the event. Cool. But the online registration isn't secure. Uncool.

It was recently discovered the online registration system Creative Reunions is using isn't terribly secure. While we seriously doubt anyone's personal information was compromised, your trusty reunion crew would like to strongly suggest that you not use Creative Reunions website for registering for our reunion and instead, send in your registration the way we would have done it way back in 1988... yup, good ol' US Postal Service.

Creative Reunions
24248 Crenshaw Blvd., Suite 210
Torrance, CA 90505

Please provide the following information:

Full name (include maiden name if appropriate)
Complete mailing address
Phone number
Email address
Check or credit card number

For more information on pricing and other treasures to be optionally ordered, check out this previous post on the ethsclassof88.org site.

This week Creative Reunions, the company retained to coordinate all the logistics for our reunion, started sending out "save the date" announcements. With these announcements came pricing and registration information.

While Creative Reunions sent out materials this week in the mail, we realize many of you have moved multiple times over the years and you may not get this information. Good news, keep reading and you'll get all the details.

Reunion Tickets
$95.00 each
$105.00 each (after September 26, 2008)

Dinner, entertainment and biography book are included in the ticket price. And for those of you chompin' at the bit to register early, you will be the proud recipient of a free reunion photo CD (a $16.95 value). This offer is good through June 5, 2008 so plan accordingly.

Other Keepsakes
If an evening of good food, drink and conversation with long lost friends isn't enough, you can also pick up the following items too:

Memory Book ($25.00)
Reunion Photo CD ($16.95)
11x14 Class Photo ($20.00)

You can also mail in your registration to the address below:

Creative Reunions
24248 Crenshaw Blvd., Suite 210
Torrance, CA 90505

If mailing in your registration, please provide the following information:

Full name (include maiden name if appropriate)
Complete mailing address
Phone number
Email address
Check or credit card number

...and of course how many tickets and/or keepsakes you need.

Just two weeks after we hit 50 pictures contributed to the website, we now have passed 50 markers placed on the "Where Are You?" map.

Earlier this week, Monika (Stoll) Auferheide became the 50th El Toro High School Class of '88 grad to place a marker on the "Where Are You Now" map. If you haven't place your marker on the map, it is really easy. Just head over the the "Where Are You?" page and fill out the form. All contributions are updated about once a day.

Or for more information, check out this page on the website for a bit more information on how to add your marker to the ethsclassof88.org website.

Does this sound familiar: You have a ton of pictures you took back in high school. They are all sitting in a photo album. Or worse, a shoebox. You'd like to be able to scan all of these pictures but the scanner you bought requires a degree in computer science to figure out how it works. What to do, what to do. Well, the folks at scandigital.com have given the ETHS class of 1988 a great way to get those pictures scanned. Fast, easy and at a discounted rate.

The ETHS class of '88 reunion crew has worked out a deal with scandigital.com to provide all of us discounted rates for the scanning of pictures and slides. Just when you thought you'd never be able to email around pictures of those proud moments of you and your friends with Aqua Net induced hairdos. Well, now you can.

How it works
The service is very straight forward. You go up the the scandigital.com website, create an account, place your order. Then you send off your prints, slides, or photo albums off to them. They will then carefully scan all the pictures, then package up everything and send your originals back to you along with all of the images on a CD or DVD. Pretty cool. Here's a chart from their website giving you the details:

What's the discount?
Good question. All orders placed through scandigital.com for the ETHS class of 1988 are eligible for a 10% discount. When placing your order, include: “classof88” for the coupon code (see the picture below).

Any other way to save a few bucks?
Yup, there is. If you live in the greater LA, Orange County area, they provide a free pick-up and delivery. Check out the map below for the service coverage area.

See a larger map be clicking here or on the map above

We hope you'll all find this to be a useful service. And if you do choose to take advantage of it, of course we'd really like to have you forward some of the pictures to us so we can include them on the ethsclassof88.org website as well as show them at the reunion this October.

Thanks to the contributions this week, the slideshow on the website has now reached 50 pictures.

It's great to see that we hit 50 so fast, but let's get to triple digits this month. How can you help? Easy. Just head over to the contact us page and attach your pictures (please be sure and select "I have pictures to contribute" before uploading!).

If you have a lot of pictures to contribute and don't want to upload them one at a time (we don't blame you), please let us know how many you have and we'll figure out the best way to get 'em up on the site.

Earlier this week, we rolled out a forum on the site in an attempt to try and help ETHS class of '88 grads communicate together. So far so good, but we thought it might be helpful to give you a step-by-step explanation of how to actually post something on the site. So here we go...

Posting something onto the ETHS Class of '88 forum is easy. Here are the steps:

1. Go to www.ethsclassof88.org/forum
And click on the "register" link in the light blue bar (see picture below).


2. Select your user options
Yeah, I know... good chance we're all going to select "English" as our preferred language. Sorry, there was no way to avoid this step. Then click the "submit" button.


3. Register
Please complete the items indicated with a red asterisk (*). Complete any of the other optional items, then submit the form (don't forget to check the "I agree to the rules" checkbox).


4. You're done!
Now you can either respond to or create new posts in the forums. If you run into any challenges, please let us know by using the contact us page and let us know where you ran into issues.

Happy forum posting...