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The links to the left will take you to the related decade of graduating classes.  Within in each decade you will find a class page for each graduating year.  

Within the graduating class pages, you will find links that will connect you to Yahoo Groups (formerly Egroups) Class Chat List.  If you would like to join, simply follow the link below and follow the instructions with Yahoo. 

Moderators (a contact and admin person for the Class Chat List ) are needed for the class listservs with the red arrow.  Lists with a moderator are marked with a blue dot.  All instructions for moderating your Class Chat List will be provided to you (no experience needed).  We have also included general and detailed information regarding moderating Class Chat Lists below. 

If you are interesting in becoming the moderator for your class, or adding content to or developing your graduating class website (we will help), please email info@yorktownalums.org and let us know!  If your class already has a website, please let us know, and we will add a link to the class page.  

YAHOO-GROUPS GENERAL

All of the yahoogroups.com mailing lists we use are free, and non-commercial. We never charge for their use, and other users agree that the information is private.

To protect the privacy of classmates each of our lists is limited to members of a single class. The reasons behind this policy include insuring that "outsiders" don't impose on your classmates, and that the messages you receive concern you and your friends rather than the members of a class that may be ten or twenty years ahead, or behind, you at YHS.

There are over 13,000 alumni and an untold number of current and former faculty members and staff, so it simply isn't possible for anyone involved with running this organization to know everyone, but classmates know their classmates, or can check with a friend when in doubt.

So we need one or more members from each class to act as each lists' Moderator (or what we call Gatekeeper because it's closer to what the role seems to be). More than one person can serve in this capacity helping locate classmates, adding them to the list if they so desired, and monitoring the message traffic.

Most of the work will be done in the first year or two of each lists existence because there will be more people being found and added, but later it will be necessary to update individuals whose email eddress changes, or to correct names when a woman take her grooms last name.

Moderators that want to stop serving in that capacity may do so at any time, although it is requested that the departing Moderator finds their replacement amongst their classmates. 

Initially it seems prudent to have the Moderator(s) approve messages - as well as admission to the the list - to insure traffic remains civil and discrete. We think systems limited by class where everyone knows everyone else also helps with the nature of the communications. But messages on the smaller and older classes goes through without moderator involvement, although we reserve the right to "ban" anyone whose messages are inappropriate. So please keep your messages clean, non-commercial, and discrete.

With these mailing lists you can reach everyone in your class with just one email eddress. If you want to search for something in an old message, or just want to communicate with one or a few classmates, both these things can be done from the mailing list's website.

If you're interested in finding out more about what the role of moderator entails, click HERE for details.