Statement of Purpose for Vitual Pantherama Updated December 2001 12/09/01 Every five or six months I revisit this website, which stillgets hits, and still gets visitors who sign the guestbook. I even have a few people on the mailing list, but no one ever posted any pictues, due to the horrible fact that I couldn't "develop" an easy way for any body who isn't computer litereate enough to get them up here. Friday night, in an attempt to figure out whether I would continue this part of AllThingsMike, or merely delete the pages in order to free up valuable space on the server for more ongoing projects, I received an epiphany. Just a couple of weeks ago, a former classmate on my email list asked me if I knew where she could get the old Yearbooks. Of course I don't know, and my copies are care worn and nearly spineless. But I've been rapidly gaining profieciency with the Picture Publisher program, and there were a lot of high quality color photos in the yearbooks from 1968 to 1971 when I attended hiskool, that I figured I could at least try to put some of those pictures on the internet, so alumni without their yearbooks could see them again. Also, in the attempt to choose which pictures I would include, I want to put photos that can be viewed as nostalgia by a cross section of graduates, not only those for that particular year. On top of the epiphany that tells me I should transform this from an attempt at a community site (which never worked. Only one person ever went to my Discussion Boards) to a personal reminiscence site, I found a great opportunity to offer a place to post photos, courtesy of Yahoo Groups. So here is a link to the Group. Please Join. And Join in. There is a message board as well. Personally, I'd like to see personal reminiscences and photos in order to bring back this time in our past, as the baby boom reaches a half century on earth, it is refreshing at times to look back at how we viewed existence when we were 16, 17, and 18. 7/23/01 Hi, I created this website in February 2000 to be, well, a "Virtual Pantherama". A "place to go on the web" for alumni of Rosemead High. That dream, like most of my dream for a free internet, has never happened, but I might as well give Virtual Pantherama a fresh start. It's been over a year later in the life of this website, and while there have been hits and guestbook signings, which should warm the heart of any webmaster, and does mine, there just hasn't been much "collaboration". I remember, as I look over the unfinished page templates I created in the Yearbook Sections, how much I wanted this to be the website equivalent of the real Pantherama, with different "editors" helping to make the site grow and prosper as a community. Just like something out of the Homestead promise of building a community on the internet. Anybody with a memory and a photo or two would join the "community" of alumni of Rosemead High. A year has passed. The Collaboration feature is gone from Homestead. I realize that I can at least attempt to add content to this site, to keep it changing. I own it now. Free Personal Websites will slowly disappear. Besides, the internet is only the beginning of the Age of Information. The "communitysearch", like my perpetual "lovesearch" seems to yield few positive results, but I do see my overall "readership" increase steadily, so even if I can't find an interactive community, I do have my "readers." On this website, Henry Sakaida is responsible for most of the photos you do see, and I did receive a few photos via email. Of course Linda Purcell and Toni Carpenter Macadam started pages for 72, 73, and 74. I always said the failure of this site is because there wasn't an easy way for a visitor who isn't really computer literate to post photos directly to the site, like Yahoo briefcase. I added a Zing feature one month before they went out of business. It would have been neat. You could add directly to the site. Well, if you've gotten this far, maybe you can go now to the AllThingsMike Forum which is a Discussion Board Feature I set up also in 2000. I put it up a few months ago, and there isn't much interest. It is a good message board feature, and allows you to post HTML computer code and .jpg and .gif files from your computer. But maybe the old photos aren't on the computer yet, and that's the problem. Well, I'll try to look for those Panther's Tales again. Thanks for listening Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool |
This page was last updated on: June 11, 2004
Hi, Fellow alumni from the old halls of Rosemead High. This website was created as an attempt to replicate the *spirit* of hiskool in an easy, intuitive experience. I put the original pages up as a place where alumni from all classes of RHS could come to post their photos, reminisce, and bathe in the sweet glow of nostalgia. Michael Franklin Nyiri class of '71 |
Michael F. Nyiri 1971 |
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There might be a few of you who "borrowed" my poembooks when I was in hiskool. ElectricPoetry is my "virtual poembook" , a mammoth undertaking to present my collected works online. |
AllThingsMike is my "virtual presence" on the internet. I believe that the ability to "Create Art" which can be instantly viewed by all is the most exciting thing to happen in my lifetime, and I embrace the medium wholeheartedly. Click on the logo and go exploring my psyche. |
Here I will show off the photos and stories of the Panther's Tale, Rosemead High School's student newspaper. In 1971, when I graduated, student journalism had proved to be a potent force. As an editor of the school newspaper, and as a current "student of popular culture", I give you the Panther's Tale, 1970 ,1971 MFN |
Cornerstone: Virtual Pantherama: Saturday, Feb. 12, 2000 |
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Ed Andersen 1966 |
Michael Nyiri Class of 1971 |
Statement of Purpose for Vitual Pantherama Updated December 2001 12/09/01 Every five or six months I revisit this website, which stillgets hits, and still gets visitors who sign the guestbook. I even have a few people on the mailing list, but no one ever posted any pictues, due to the horrible fact that I couldn't "develop" an easy way for any body who isn't computer litereate enough to get them up here. Friday night, in an attempt to figure out whether I would continue this part of AllThingsMike, or merely delete the pages in order to free up valuable space on the server for more ongoing projects, I received an epiphany. Just a couple of weeks ago, a former classmate on my email list asked me if I knew where she could get the old Yearbooks. Of course I don't know, and my copies are care worn and nearly spineless. But I've been rapidly gaining profieciency with the Picture Publisher program, and there were a lot of high quality color photos in the yearbooks from 1968 to 1971 when I attended hiskool, that I figured I could at least try to put some of those pictures on the internet, so alumni without their yearbooks could see them again. Also, in the attempt to choose which pictures I would include, I want to put photos that can be viewed as nostalgia by a cross section of graduates, not only those for that particular year. On top of the epiphany that tells me I should transform this from an attempt at a community site (which never worked. Only one person ever went to my Discussion Boards) to a personal reminiscence site, I found a great opportunity to offer a place to post photos, courtesy of Yahoo Groups. So here is a link to the Group. Please Join. And Join in. There is a message board as well. Personally, I'd like to see personal reminiscences and photos in order to bring back this time in our past, as the baby boom reaches a half century on earth, it is refreshing at times to look back at how we viewed existence when we were 16, 17, and 18. 7/23/01 Hi, I created this website in February 2000 to be, well, a "Virtual Pantherama". A "place to go on the web" for alumni of Rosemead High. That dream, like most of my dream for a free internet, has never happened, but I might as well give Virtual Pantherama a fresh start. It's been over a year later in the life of this website, and while there have been hits and guestbook signings, which should warm the heart of any webmaster, and does mine, there just hasn't been much "collaboration". I remember, as I look over the unfinished page templates I created in the Yearbook Sections, how much I wanted this to be the website equivalent of the real Pantherama, with different "editors" helping to make the site grow and prosper as a community. Just like something out of the Homestead promise of building a community on the internet. Anybody with a memory and a photo or two would join the "community" of alumni of Rosemead High. A year has passed. The Collaboration feature is gone from Homestead. I realize that I can at least attempt to add content to this site, to keep it changing. I own it now. Free Personal Websites will slowly disappear. Besides, the internet is only the beginning of the Age of Information. The "communitysearch", like my perpetual "lovesearch" seems to yield few positive results, but I do see my overall "readership" increase steadily, so even if I can't find an interactive community, I do have my "readers." On this website, Henry Sakaida is responsible for most of the photos you do see, and I did receive a few photos via email. Of course Linda Purcell and Toni Carpenter Macadam started pages for 72, 73, and 74. I always said the failure of this site is because there wasn't an easy way for a visitor who isn't really computer literate to post photos directly to the site, like Yahoo briefcase. I added a Zing feature one month before they went out of business. It would have been neat. You could add directly to the site. Well, if you've gotten this far, maybe you can go now to the AllThingsMike Forum which is a Discussion Board Feature I set up also in 2000. I put it up a few months ago, and there isn't much interest. It is a good message board feature, and allows you to post HTML computer code and .jpg and .gif files from your computer. But maybe the old photos aren't on the computer yet, and that's the problem. Well, I'll try to look for those Panther's Tales again. Thanks for listening Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool |
Linda Parcell Burrell 1974 |
Toni Carpenter MacAdam 1973 |
1963 |
Virtual Pantherama |
