Fall 2010 AAUS Newsletter

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL LATE FALL 2010 NEWSLETTER ANNUAL MEETING REPORT

Without a functioning website we needed another way to communicate with each other, store pictures, and gather materials for this project. We have created an e-mail address for all of us to have access to with the intent to store and organize these types of items. After trying several variations of AAUS or University School (all of which were already taken in some form), we came up with uschool3567@yahoo.com. The 3567 stands for the years of graduating classes. The password is “littlebucks”. Here is what we request of you! Use our new e-mail address: uschool3567@yahoo.com. Steps to read & use the e-mail: 1) If you already use yahoo.com as an email address you will have to sign out as yourself and re-sign in at the new address and use the new password. The inbox screen will be familiar to you. 2) If you don’t use yahoo.com then you will have to use your favorite browser to go to www.yahoo.com. Once at that site, on the right hand side of your screen you will see an envelope with the word mail. Click on that and then on the right hand side of the new screen you will find a place to put your Yahoo ID. There is where you type uschool3567. Then go the line for password and type in littlebucks. Occasionally it will ask for you to repeat the password but not always. To read any e-mails go to inbox. To add yourself to the contact list(we would like you to do this) find the word contacts in

At our very well-attended Annual meeting in July, the following officers were re-elected by acclamation: President: Skip Woodruff Vice-President: Ralph Wilson Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Steffanie Woodruff Haueisen Recording Secretary: Julie Rains Nusken

The annual meeting discussion revolved around our next project: To leave a record of ourselves beyond academic records and paper ephemera. The OSU archives basically houses research materials for anyone researching what we were as a school. But who we were as people, our physical accomplishments is something much more difficult to make accessible. For example, they don’t archive sports uniforms, the trophies, cheerleading sweaters, BUG pins, our art projects, the dress you made in 7th grade. Many of these experiences in a sport, in shop, in Home Ec., in music, in art, affected our later lives; some of us to the extent of developing a career or lifelong hobby. So the big question: how can these items & events become part of the archival record? How can those of us who were part of such a unique educational experience leave for the future a deeper understanding of what we have accomplished in areas other than the “academics,” while at school and after graduation.

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