Class Website Gets Major Makeover

This website was started in 2016 to give the Class an online home in the runup to the 50th Reunion.  It proved to be popular and found renewed purpose after celebrating the 50th when the pandemic drove us all indoors and online, including to the wonderful series of Class Colloquia.

But several issues and problems arose recently.  First, the “old site” was designed with a number of complex features that were difficult to maintain and that classmates simply didn’t use.  Those features added security vulnerabilities that were increasingly difficult to defend.  They slowed the site down.  They added extra work … unnecessary work … for me and the other contributors to the site.  Basically, we built a community website that classmates didn’t use for anything other than a blog — a place to share some announcements and stories.

“If someone calls you a horse, Wayne, you can ignore them,” one mentor of mine said.  “But if 5 people call you a horse, it’s best if you try on some saddles.”   If we were using Yale1969.org as a blog, then embrace that: Get rid of the complexities built for the Reunion-oriented site and make it easier to publish stories now and faster to read.

So, check it out.  Undoubtedly, there will be some bugs given how radical the surgery is/was.  But I recommend you explore the pages accessed by the menus at the top.  Use that search box in the masthead banner to look for something you remember seeing.  And feel free to feedback suggestions or observations.