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Hello. 

Here we are — a cluster of vibrant octogenarians staring at “a thing,” an inscribed screen beyond the imagination of our parents. And, alas, beyond the grasp of our reluctant classmates who have not yet embraced this “new world” — cyberspace aka. infinity.

 

What’s here is a rejuvenated website, one in which to roam around. A website is essentially nothing more than a communications device which, in our case, speeds up and unites our common background and cause — 45W, Yale. 

 

          Connie Wogrin is the Founder. We owe him for the first building blocks. Your corresponding secretary, Bill Wallace, will take bows and brickbats for the refurbishing of Wogrin’s work. Going forward, Buck Coe will steer from here as web editor. 

 

We can say proudly this 45W home represents the oldest of  Yale’s classes to have an up-and-going website — one of many accolades we can relish. 

 

        These devices have curves and corners. Feel around. Expect surprises. Contribute.

 

Note, for example, the biographies of the 37 classmates who lost their lives in World War II under the In Memoriam category to the right. Go there and click! These 1951 biographies have recently been reworked thanks to new materials and research help. This editing came at an appropriate time, given the 2008 outlook on a different kind of war.  

 

Our website offers, in some of its cupboards and corners, places (boxes) to make/post comments — to applaud, to augment, about health issues, retirement homes, old cars, new funds, and more. 

 

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, of those Americans 65 years of age or more, only 37 per cent go online and use the Internet … e-mail, websites and so on (relative to 92 per cent 18 to 29).  

 

        This means that only about 150 of our classmates can be expected to find their way here. One would wish for more. If you know of classmates who are hesitant to drive in, dive in, please encourage.  

 

Let us use this deus ex machina. Exploit it.