Then and now

I have created a page with photos from school and current.  I have a few for starters so feel free to send my yours.  I have the first few yearbooks and if possible send a scan from your copy along with your current picture.  I’m going to update the Memorial Wall the same way so anything you can send of our friends passed on…..

More 60′s

UPDATE: May 15 Jack has sent me quite a few good scans.

From Jack (Wilson) Clark, 1962.

I have just scanned in some old photos (1960-61 academic year) that I have.  I would be happy to share them.  Unfortunately they are not the best of the pictures I took back then.  For an earlier reunion (25^th I think), I sent a lot of my best negatives to the organizers and indicated I would like the negatives  back when they were finished  with them.  However they never came back to me.  Don’t know if they disappeared in the mail or got into alumni archives.  If they got into the archives, I would be happy volunteer to scan them; I could get back any I wanted in electronic form and give the alumni back the negatives plus electronic copies.  The negatives, if they are in Alumni archives, will be mostly two and a quarter square with a few 35 mm (probably of football team) and will be black and white; I don’t think I took any colour.

Attached are medium files (to make them reasonable for e-mailing) of some of what I have left.  I can provide large e-files of them if anyone wants them.  I have a bit from the school’s appearance on the CBC teen dance program “Club 6”, April Antics and some other stuff.

Alumni Archives

Is there such a thing?  And how do we get access to share the information.  A number of negatives I sent East never made it to the appropriate hands and never came back.  I’m not alone with that problem.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 72 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 19mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 6th with 110 views. The most popular post that day was SLUTSKY, Wendy Karen 1978.

De-warping scanned documents

Eh?  When a bound book (such as yearbooks) is scanned the part by the spine is not flat and that part shows up as a warped image.  I did a Google search on remedies but couldn’t find any.  I have the first year soft cover and could cut the spine off and re-bind it but subsequent editions are hard cover and don’t react well to butchering.  Ideas anyone?

Once the pages are scanned it would be easy to go back and de-warp them.

To make matters worse many years ago my stepdaughter’s dog chewed up several pages so I won’t be able to reproduce the damaged ones.

I’m going to start scanning the books I have in February and would like to be able to produce a single pdf file for each year that was searchable.

Web page blues

The DMCI web page is going through a rebirth of sorts.  In due course all the features should but up and running without interruption.  Hang in there folks and don’t forget to make contributing memories and photos to the blog a New Years Resolution.

Hello DMCI Grads of 1961

This from Bob Butkus & DMCI Alumni site

We are the very first grads from Don Mills Collegiate Institute, and it might be interesting to have a reunion in the spring of 2011 to commemorate our 50th anniversary. I live in BC,
so it’s difficult for me to organize anything in Toronto. So… I’m asking who would like to work on this idea. If you are interested in any way at all, email me at: bobbutkus@shaw.ca and I will put you in touch with all the others who email me. Also, please pass on to me any relevant email addresses or snail mail addresses you may have of other people. Unfortunately, I am only in touch with two people from those days.

It would be very interesting to see how we have all evolved.

Bob Butkus