MONTHLY MEETING
The Lincoln High School Alumni Association ("LHSAA") is having the monthy general meeting on Saturday, March 21, 2009, at 9:30 a.m. in the Student Cafeteria on the LHS campus. The meeting is open to the public and alumni are encouraged to attend and to join the activities and plan events.
An election is going to be held as part of the June general meeting and nominations will be taken at this Saturday's meeting. Current by-laws limit voting to the members who have paid dues for this academic year, with the voting eligibility beging 30 days afterwards. So June voters would include alumni becoming dues paid members, "members in good standing" according to the language of the by-laws, at least 30 days earlier. That means that to vote in June, you need to join the LHSAA by the April meeting so that you will be "a member in good standing."
The LHS website (in the sidebar) links to the "Alumni" sction (direct link: http://www.lincolnhs.org/apps/news/?id=4&rn=5657167 [corrected link]) where you can find more information, including membership details. Please contact the LHSAA with any questions you may have, or send questions here for forwarding. You should get a clarification of this voting aspect of membership before you pay your dues to be certain that you have voting eligibility.
REQUEST FOR EMAIL ADDRESSES
The LHSAA also requests that you provide an email address for future contact from the LHSAA, even if you have not decided yet to become a dues-paying member. This will enable contact by email in the future on a more timely basis, providing you with alumni information on activities and events coming up.
For older members who do not know much about email and addresses, you can talk to younger members. But more practically, public libraries in Los Angeles, specifically, and likely other cities, offer free access to computers for 2 hours a day. You can inquire there as well for instruction on using the computers.
The L.A. Public Library offer free wi-fi connections if you have a laptop computer of your own. If you do not know HOW to use the internet or email, there are usually free classes for senior citizens on this and many more topics. You can find lots of information at the local adult school programs, as well.
So you see that you don't have to have a home internet connection or even own a computer to be able to benefit from current technology and use an email account. You can get an "Email address" if you don't have one already, without charge (free), from Google and Yahoo, among other sources.
REUNIONS
The LHSAA does not arrange reunions, or even knows about reunions unless someone provides it with the information. There have been many recent inquiries about upcoming reunions but each class reunion is done independently, usually by a group of interested alumni. Where the information is available, that will be posted on this blog, as well.
The Classes of 1959 are planning a Fall reunion on September 13, 2009, the 50-year version, and a notice will be posted here soon.
See their website: http://www.lhstigers59.com/ Contact Joe Dooley, Planning Committee Chairman at either email address below:
home: syndnjtd@socal.rr.com
work: jdooley@wakunaga.com
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