EVOLUTION

After alumni saw the site was real, recognized it’s possibilities, and realized that someone was going to be here to build and maintain it on a long term basis, they responded en-mass.  Word spread quickly.   They saw, for example, that for the first time internal coordination was now possible covering alumni from a huge span of school years, and a means was available to document our  history. 

Immediately, it became apparent alumni not only were able to find one another quickly after all ‘those’ years, but as a result it stimulated them to also begin searching for others from lists and ‘clues’ posted on the site – an action which found hundreds and hundreds of alumni – perhaps a thousand. 

Additionally they saw now a means to display valuable memorabilia from our school so as to recapture those precious moments of our great journey -- for the benefit of the ‘school’ itself and it’s younger alumni, your children and grandchildren, and the world to see – a memory each of us holds dear to our heart. 

This began a condition for the first time in our history where one class / era of alumni could see what the other alumni knew about the school -- a continuous picture of all the events that have taken place over the past 57 years.  Unique!

We must say the support and assistance from the alumni throughout this project for the past 9 years has been overwhelming.  Our thanks lists contains the names of 146 who were able to help and we are grateful for their interest in this project.  We think there are others but we failed to list them at the time and their identity is lost.

We have the impression that everyone wanted to help, but some just did not have material to share or time to devote due to other priorities.  Each who could though worked hard to make the site a success – a process that brought joy to not only those who worked on the site itself, but to everyone else as well.  

That experience was one of the best medicines around for all of us who worked at the site – as was the good ole times in Japan we all remember so well.

All of us though owe a special word of thanks again to the 8 alumni who over the years actually worked on or were/are part of the staff of the site.  Their contribution to it’s [and the alumni] advancement in terms of energy, time, expense, and sacrifice of family priorities on their part to assist was / is significant, and they are: