While first putting together my "Whatever Happened to the Class of 1971?" web site, I relied a great deal on my 1971 high school yearbook.
Besides the photographs, there's a treasure trove of facts and trivia about our final year in high school. Each time I thumb through it I seem to find something new.
Despite the work involved, I believe this yearbook belongs on the world wide web. People from anywhere in the world can travel back to small Texas school and see it - through our eyes.
I'm ahead of schedule for adding pages to the web. My original goal was to add ten per week.
Eventually I'll get to the most poignant part of our yearbook. It's those pages at the back where many of my classmates jotted down a short note shortly before graduation.
It's those words that mean the most to me. They stand out over the years that separate us.
As I reread them from time to time, it always hits me that, although I can read my classmate's words to me, I have no idea what I wrote in their yearbooks.
Perhaps they'll remind me some day.