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Follow the steps below to locate them and tell them about our Virtual Alumni Association Home Page.

STEP ONE:
||| See if the person you're looking for has signed up already at one of these sights:

Yahoo's PSHS Listing

PSHS Alumni Registry

Reunion Hall

Classmates.com

STEP TWO:
Find their address and phone number at one of these sights and call them. After chatting about old times, ask them if they have internet access & tell them about our Virtual Alumni Home Page.

AnyWho ||| Four11 ||| Netscape

Bigfoot ||| Infospace

Personal Home Pages

Switchboard ||| WorldPages

WhoWhere?! ||| 411Locate

Internet @ddress Finder

STEP THREE:
Search for the individual's name at one of these sights (see Strategies section below for some creative searching methods).
Email them an invite to come to our Class Home Page. Then send us their email address for their class reunion committee's use.

Four11|||Bigfoot

Infospace ||| Switchboard

WhoWhere?! ||| WorldPages

Internet @ddress

411 Locate

Other potentially useful web sites

The Seeker

Her Maiden Name Directory

Personal Home Pages

Who? Me?

OH, try this:

Search for their name as a phrase in a regular search engine (Like Metacrawler). Maybe they've got a web site about methods of frying octopus or something.

- Before Anything Else: use the "Web pages listing some classmates" links above to see if they've registered somewhere already.

- First, use the above links to search for the specific individual's phone number (this is obviously easier if they have an unusual name). Call them and after chatting about old times, ask them if they have internet access and offer to email them the URL for the PSHS Virtual Alumni Association Home Page (http://www.xmission.com/~gdi/pshs.htm)

- Second, (if First didn't work), use the above links to search for the specific individual's email address. Then send a note to all the addresses listed (this can be quite a few if you're searching for Robert Smith, but not so many if it's Vonnie Alekna). The note could say something like:

"Are you the Joyce Fisher that attended Plano Senior High School in 1976? If so, please reply to this message AND browse over to our PSHS Virtual Alumni Association Home Page! It's at http://www.xmission.com/~gdi/pshs.htm. And remember to sign the guest book! See you there!"

- Third, (if First and Second are fruitless) Search for anyone with the same last name that lives in Plano (who knows, maybe they're family). You could modify the above email message and send it to them.

- Fourth, (by now you're wondering "where in the devil are they?!") Email a similar message to everyone in Texas with the same first and last name. Maybe they went to college in Austin and liked the... uh... view.

- Fifth, (you're simply determined to find them -- no matter what) Email a message to everyone with the same first and last name as the person you're looking for anywhere in the USA. Who knows-- maybe they moved to some God-forsaken place like Utah. .....; )

- Sixth (now you're really getting desperate) Email a message to everyone in Texas with the same last name as the person you're seeking. -- you may want to have a snack nearby, it could take a while.

- Seventh, if none of the above has worked for you, locate a private detective in Plano and send them a check.