Locating Classmates
Posted Saturday, February 16, 2013 11:17 AM

It's always been interesting and quite a challenge to locate "missing" classmates.  People move, change email providers or pass away and quite often I never find out.  When we start our planning process for each reunion it's fun to hear theories about where someone is or "whose sister knew Sam's mother's cousin".  The search for classmates always seems to be a challenge for the committee and they really step up. 

We even start cold calling phone numbers from www.whitepages.com or www.ussearch.com or some other "free" web based locater.  During this process I got a response from John Lambert after leaving a message on an answering machine  at a Manhattan Beach, CA address.  When I put out the email for help locating classmates I got a response from Jerry Quest on a tip about locating George Beller and sure enough it was him.  Somehow Neal Bovey located Jerry Curtis who we had never found since 1963.

When trying to locate Sandy Tilton McCormick I used anWhite Pages Iphone App which has an option of "Nearby People".  It brought up listings of peope on a map surrounding the possible address I was looking for so I started making cold calls.  I didn't have any luck that time but I talked to several people who were also working on their class reunion trying to find classmates too.

So, if you think you know where a missing classmate might possibly be located please let me know or better yet, start searching.  Sometimes it's a lot of fun. 

 

Larry