Cable Company Community Channel

• Write a blurb about your upcoming reunion and submit it to the local cable companies.  Cable has a community channel and they must show local event happenings, reunions are always a community event.
• Include in your blurb:
• • School name, graduating year, your first name, area code if out of the 510 area code,  phone number, email address (if you have one), the names and phone numbers of other committee members.
  • If you are given allot of space for your reunion blurb, add the month of the event and location.
• Ask the cable company to run the ad as long as possible.
• TCI Cable in Hayward covers 70,000 homes in San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hillsborough, Hayward (duh) and Foster City.
• TCI Cable 30 bought out Castro Valley Viacom and it covers Livermore, Pleasanton, San Ramon, Dublin and Sunol.
• if you have committee members who live outside the above listed areas, have them submit class reunion info to their local cable stations.

Local Newspapers

• The local newspaper also has a section for class reunions.
• The ANG or Alameda News Group covers the Daily Review, the Argus, Tri-Valley Times, the Oakland Tribune and probably some papers I'm not aware of.  Ask if they will run your reunion information in ALL their papers.

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Visit and Leave Information with....

• Leave information or a flyer about the up coming reunion at:
• • Did you know that the kids who are running LOS COMPADRES on C St are Sunset grads?
  • I believe VIC HUBBARD's is either run or owned by former Sunset grads too.
  • Hayward & Weekes Library  and don't forget the County Libraries.  Talk to the information desk or library manager.
  • Hayward Chamber of Commerce on Main St.  A former Sunset student works the reception desk (This is 1997 info).
  • Visit the Hayward Museum.

School District Office & Schools

• If you have a flier made up for your reunion, take it to the receptionist at the district office and have her get district approval.  Then it can be distributed to all the school's within the district.  The district can distribute your flier, but it costs.  You can mail or drop your flier off at your leisure at different schools once it's been approved.
• Hayward High, Larry Ratto is the principal.  (Former Sunset hs principal) will be glad to take your class reunion information.
• The school district office.  Visit the  student records lady and she will be more then happy to take your reunion information.
• Visit the Hayward Adult School and leave information in the attendance office.  (Sunset hs)

Printing

 With all the posting of fliers, a cheap source to have your posters/fliers printed is the Hayward School District offices.  Yes, it's even cheaper then Copymat. 

• If you want to create a class phone book, this is the place to come with the master.  The print shop has a special stapler just for the purpose of binding booklets.
• Check your school district offices and see if they have the same copy center policy.
• Alumni will not receive a high priority, for copy jobs.

The Class List

• Get out your senior  yearbook and write down everyone's name in your graduating class.  (Names will be added & dropped as you go.  Remember, not everyone showed up for their senior picture.)
• If possible save the list in Word or in Excel.
  • Make duplicates of the classmates list, for committee members.

Phone Book Ever heard the term  "cold call"? 

You get them all the time from companies selling over the phone.  This time it's your committee's turn to experience "cold calling".   It will be a far more pleasant experience, because people usually don't mind being disturbed when it comes to class reunions, even if they are not the person you are looking for. 
This process is more fun when done at a committee meeting gathering.  You will need the following items & people:

• Missing class mate's list
• Local phone book
• Local area map (Helps to recall neighborhoods and school boundaries.)
• Old address books
• Talkative committee members
• Teenagers who spend hours on the phone, love doing this.
• Write a simple explanation to tell the caller.  Follow the script until you are comfortable with what you are doing.
• Favorite beer or wine to serve, helps losen tied tongues.
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Record Keeping

Alright, you found that some parents are still living in the same ole neighborhood.  You can count on them to relay the information onto the kids.  

• You have at least a dozen people's names and addresses and the information is current.  Now is the time to put together a data base.
• I highly recommend putting the missing and found classmates information in either word or excel format and updating it as you go.
• Place the information on a diskette and the diskette in a safe place. 
• If you don't have a computer, put the info on index cards in a receipe box in a safe place.
• The night of the reunion hand out address cards to confirm people's addresses, and provide them with the permenant record keepers address.
• Assign someone who will never move, the on going job of being the official record keeper.  Though the reunion is over collecting and maintaining class members where abouts is an on going affair.

A Walk about anyone?

• Visit your old neighborhoods. Children move away, parents usually stay put. (Brian Maier '71)
• Silly but why not put up some fliers on telephone poles in the old neighborhoods.
• If you know a younger/older - sister/brother/cousin ask them for information.

Visit the County Offices

• Visit the County Registar of Voters. (Roxanne Ponsi '71)
• City & County Property Tax Records
• City & County Business Names
• Heard this on Mornings on 2 show,  that you can get information from the DMV.

Newsletters & Bulletins

• Belong to Parents w/o Partners, a bowling league, church, synagoge, PTA, special interest group or organization?  Ask if you can have your reunion's information published in the newsletter or bulletin.

Networking

Those good ole boys knew what they were doing.  Same holds true for your committee. 

• Tell everyone you know about the upcoming reunion.  So the person didn't go to your school.  The person you don't tell could be the person who knows someone who married someone who happened to mention they went to Sunset hs.
• Many grads live up and down the west coast, though the bulk are still in the area or in the 209 area code, or Oregon, Washington.....
• • Ask someone to be on the committee who lives in the 209 area code and have them send blurbs to their local cable station, to the newspaper, sit down with the phone book, etc.
  • Get people who live in other states to do the same.
• Network, Network, Network.

the Internet You knew I was going to mention the net. 

• Open your notepad.  Type a message as to why you are contacting the person.
• Send your missing classmate list and I will post it on this site as a side window.
• Keep the side window up and move onto a people search engine.

HIghlight a missing person's name and press your CTRL & C key.  You have now copied the name. 

• Take your cursor over to the box where you insert the name and press your CTRL & Insert key.  Copied.
• The name is now in the search box. Press the search button and see what you get.
• Copy and paste the message you created in your notepad into your message window.
• Send the message.  Trust me, I look for people this way to tell them about the Sunset site and they are very nice about it.  People would rather recieve this kind of message then spam.

If you don't know Ask.

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