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alumnac.com Newsletter - August 26, 2010
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NFL Challenge: Game On
It's time to start making your selections in the 7th annual alumnac.com NFL Challenge. Last year (in the 6th annual), David Healey (Ishpeming 1967) was crowned the champion. The 2009 NFL season begins on Thursday, September 9th. To give yourself the best chance of winning, please submit your week 1 selections prior to this game. Like last year, selections can be made and changed up until kickoff of each game - this means you can make changes to your late picks on Sunday while the early games are being played. To make your picks, please click on the NFL link in your newsletter (this does not require you to remember your user ID or password) or access the NFL challenge page and click on 'Enter Contest' link. You will be propmted for your user ID and password. After you enter the contest, you will be receive an acknowledgement email with a link to edit your picks. This link may be used to enter the contest for the entire season, so it's a good idea to save one of these emails. The entry with the most correct picks each week wins the contest for that week. Ties are broken by (in order): 1) entry with the closest pick to the total points scored in the tie-breaker game, 2) highest cumulative correct picks for the season, 3) coin flip. This year's sponsor is Congress Pizza in Ishpeming. Each week's winner will receive a free pizza from Congress Pizza. Good luck to everyone! Best in the UP - Show Your Support for Congress Pizza This year's voting for Best in the UP is being done online and one of our sponsors, Congress Pizza, is one of five nominees for the best pizza. Those of us who have had the opportunity to enjoy one of their pizzas know how good they are. This is your opportunity to show your support ... please click here to place your vote. Contest ends on September 3rd and you can vote once per day so vote, vote, vote. Our newest sponsor - Fox Negaunee Thanks to Fox Negaunee for their support of alumnac.com. Please consider them the next time you are in the market for a new or used automobile or need your vehicle serviced. No UP Challenge This Year Because of my own time challenges this summer, I was unable to get the UP football schedules loaded in time for this year's season. The schedules and results will get loaded, but not in time for the beginning of the season. So, we will be unable to do a UP football challenge this year. Maybe next year ... Class Reunion Updates If your class has a class reunion this summer and you took some pictures that you would like your classmates to see, you can post them on your class page. To access you class page, click on your page for your school and then click on your class. Pictures are viewable near the top of the page along with a link to post pictures. To post pictures, you will need your user name and password. If you don't know yours, click here. Graduates - Post Your Class Roster Thanks to Jean Paquette for providing the roster for the Marquette SHS Class of 2010 and to Dale Safford for providing 2010 rosters for several schools in the Iron County area. If your class page does not include the names of those who graduated, please consider providing this to us. There are nearly 90,000 UP graduates listed on alumnac.com. For instructions on how to provide your class roster, please click here. Please support alumnac.com if you shop at Amazon.com If you plan on using Amazon.com for your holiday shopping, please consider clicking here 
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Post Your Class Information Remember at graduation when you selected class colors, mottos, etc? To add this information to your class page, simply click on the appropriate button on your class page, log in, and provide this information. Also, many thanks to Dale Safford for providing the class rosters for several classes from West Iron County, Iron Mountain, Iron River, and Rapid River. The names of over 86,000 Yooper high school grads are now posted on the site on the appropriate class page. If your class page does not yet contain the list of all people graduating in that year, please consider pulling out your high school yearbook and providing this list to alumnac.com. Click here for the specifics. Business Opportunity Interested in a business opportunity? Click here to check out Fortune Hi Tech (FHTM). New and Improved Business Section - Post Your Business The business section of the site was recently enhanced with Marquette County restaurants loaded. This guide is intended to be the place where Upper Peninsula businesses are listed. Users can get basic information about the business - the address, phone number, and map. Users can get additional information (images, special offers, and links to their website) on business pages which have been upgraded. To get started, Marquette County restaurants have been loaded. Two of these restaurants - Congress Pizza and Ralph's Deli have been upgraded and feature some additional information. If you own a UP business and wish to load it onto the site, please click here and select the category that best describes your business. alumnac.com Partners with the Ishpeming High School Alumni Association alumnac.com has partnered with the Ishpeming High School Alumni Association to help with the distribution of Beacon Light, the alumni newsletter. alumnac.com is helping in two ways. First, alumnac.com will collect additional contact information to reduce the administrative workload on the Alumni Association staff. Second, alumnac.com has begun to post copies of Beacon Light. Alumni may now elect to receive the newsletter by email only by noting this on their personal information page. This saves cost for the Alumni Association and enables them to focus more on other valuable activities. To enable electronic delivery only, please click on the update link on your alumnac.com email and then check the Beacon Light box. Waterfront Property Available Interested in 295' of prime and private waterfront property on Lake Michigamme with year-round access on a paved road? Click here for details. Also available, a waterfront property on Sporley Lake. New Members alumnac.com now has over 17,000 Yooper members! Thanks to all for spreading the word to your friends and family. Click here to see if any of your old high school friends have joined in the past 14 days. Click here for more information about those classes with the most members. Ishpeming, home of the original two schools on the site, now has over 1,000 residents who are members. Click here for more detail. Please invite your friends and family to join. Cheers! Rolfe and Cathy www.alumnac.com is a site for and about alumni from all US schools. The site is filled with pictures, local events postings, and items available from local merchants and individuals. Joining the site has many benefits including access to email addresses and city/state of residence of other members, the ability for old friends to contact you via email, and a periodic email from us (usually weekly) that talks about the latest changes to the site. It's a great way to stay connected. And the best news ... IT'S FREE OF CHARGE. After you've had a chance to visit the site, we hope you will consider joining as a member (those who organize class reunions will also thank you). http://www.alumnac.com |