Autobiographies
Do you recognize any (all?) of the 13(or so)-year-olds above? (To check, hover your cursor over a photograph and it will reveal the name.) The photos are shown in the order the bios were received - I hope to rotate new ones in as further bios are submitted.
The origins of this project began with Ken Johnston before the 2009 Reunion, and I asked him to speak on the night. Briefly, he made the point that it's great to meet people at the Reunion, but,
• there isn't enough time to get round everyone, or to ...
• take the time to talk to those you do meet and learn what they've been doing for the past 50+ years, and ...
• many people you’d like to see don't attend, for various reasons.
Ken felt that it would be a worthwhile project to get each of us - those who are interested - to write a one-pager on "where I've been/what I've been doing for the last 50 years" and share it with everyone else. The problem was how to compile/print/distribute these. So we put our heads together and came up with this text-and-photographs Internet implementation. Ken wrote his, and we produced a draft webpage format with photographs.
We decided that we would wait until we had half a dozen completed bios before launch - it's taken more than a year to get to that point! General appeals didn't work (we only got one response, from Bill and Jean (Anderson) Duncan - which was much appreciated) beyond that zilch, nada! People seem to like the concept - but never get around to contributing. Though tempted to give up, we decided to see if personal, one-on-one appeals would elicit some response - this is the result of those efforts.
As you'll see, the format is based loosely on the school photographs page unveiled previously, with space for 6 photographs across the top - 3 photos from schooldays and 3 from later life, and the ability to add some illustrative photographs to the body of text. Personally I find them all interesting and informative, and the top-line photographs quite fascinating - the three on the left showing us maturing physically through our time at Morgan, from a kid of 13 to a young adult of 17 or 18, and the range from 1 to 6 showing the life-time process of ageing over some 60 years.
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