anyone who went to aviano h.s. is welcome to visit me at [www.myspace.com] and become one of my friends...thank you...thank you very much!...steve

A group of Saints currently living in or around the Metro Washington DC area are having a get together on Saturday, 21 October, at 3:00 PM. If you also live in or around the DC area or just find yourself in the area on the 21st and wish to join us, feel free to contact me via e-mail for the details. We currently have 10-20 Saints expected to participate; class years range from 1976 through 1994.

Donny Love class of 1978, and former alum of Aviano High School, passed away January 21st 2006. This is yet another tragedy for the Love family who has already lost Clifford (class of 1976). If you would like to pay your respects, there is a memoriam posted in the 1970's memoriam section for Donny. Or you can access it directly here If you would like to contact Bev Love, please send an email to me via the contact page.

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There is a planned reunion in Santa Fe NM. This reunion is planned for June 2005, and information is available in the link to the left "Reunion 05 Info". Point of contact is Dorinda Hopper, and you will find her contact info on that page.

Other news, I have uploaded another yearbook to the site, and this now makes a total of 16 yearbooks online; The 1986 Yearbook came online yesterday, and belongs to Jessica LaGassey--Class of 1991 (Thanks Jessica). Check it out; I think that you will find the quality pretty good

Hello Aviano Alumni! It has been a while since posting on this news thingy. I have created a new plug-in module for the Alpha-Roster that is newsworthy, so I thought I would market it a bit. I have added a "Then and Now" picture link to names in the roster. However, it will take quite a while to get a significant amount of photos stacked up against names in the roster, but bear with it. If you would like to help me out, it would be appreciated. Or you can send a current picture of yourself, and I will try and match it with a picture of you in one of the online yearbooks. I will then create the "Then and Now" image, upload and link it into the database. I suppose that in 10 years time, "Now" will be "Then" and "Then will be "Now" make sense?...didn't think so. Ciao for now. Jared

I thought that it was pretty neat that two former Aviano Saints found each other because of this website, and now are happily married. My congratulations to Michael Stevenson (Class of 1980) and Karen Klinglesmith Stevenson (Class of 1981) for your union.

I have also met many old friends that I never thought I would be in contact with as well. The continued success of Aviano Saints Alumni website is due to the word of mouth, search engine indexing and patronage. A big thanks to everyone.

Just a few more days until the Aviano High School Reunion in Colorado Springs. We are very excited to see everyone that is coming and we'll miss those who aren't able to attend. You'll be in our hearts. For those who have helped and aren't able to attend, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we wish you were going to be here. Those that are still on the fence, there still is time and we'll save you a seat! Reunion party animals, be safe getting here and we'll see you soon!!!!

Hello Aviano Alumni, it has been a long time since I have updated the news section of the site. However, I have been busy with several parts of the site, and making many changes. Also the site has moved to a new machine, and should experience greater performance. If you find something that doesn't work, please send me an email so I can fix it. There are so many files, that sometimes I forget or overlook certain things, and only find that it is broken a month or two later. I have been back from Afghanistan now since November, so I figured that it was time to announce that I was back from there. I had a great time down range, and found it to be one of life’s great experiences. The Reunion in Colorado springs is getting ever closer, and the deadline to register for the hotel is March 31st. Don't wait to the last minute, do it as soon as possible. The reunion committee has put a lot of (wo)man hours into the preparations for the reunion, and it would be a shame if their efforts are wasted. A lot of people have expressed a desire to go, but the committee now needs people to commit so they can have an accurate count. If you feel that this site provides a valuable service, please feel free to donate to the cause.

As most of you know, I am currently in Afghanistan at the moment. I have somewhat access to the site and try to make updates whenever time permits. I have updated the reunion page, and it now has word documents that folks can fill out to pre-register. It is important for those folks that are interested in attending, that they complete these forms at the earliest convenience. I do plan on attending this reunion, so I will look forward to seeing you all there. I will probably do a major change to the site layout after I come back from Afghanistan.....until then ciao

Aviano Saints Alumni Website is now offering products for sale in order to boost website contributions. This will allow members to contribute to the website and receive something for their donation. I currently have six items for sale, and if someone has a request, just ask and I will see if I can add it. The items are being sold through the secure website Cafeshops.com. AvianoSaints.com receives a portion of each item sold. All proceeds will go directly into hosting fees and website maintenance. Feel free to contact me with any comments on the Alumni Shop.

In an effort to build an online archive of Aviano Italy, its high school and the times we all spent together there, I am soliciting alumni to submit either via the website, or email or snail mail, items such as yearbooks, pictures and anything that you feel is worth contributing. I have had very few site contributors to date, and have run out of materials to make the site grow. It is through everyone’s contributions that makes this site. Also I would like to solicit more monetary contributions for this site. It costs a lot of money to run each year, and I have had only two folks out of the thousands that visited this site contribute to the effort. You can view their names and others who have contributed site content in the contribution page at the bottom of the menu. For all those that value this site, please consider contributing to it, even if it is 5 dollars a year. Besides the 100s of hours spent developing the site, it costs around 300 dollars each year to host. Thank you for your consideration.

It has been awhile since I have posted news on Aviano Alumni Website. This doesn't mean that nothing has happened. In fact quite a few things have happened on the website. I have added a Memoriam where we can remember our lost friends and pay tribute to their lives. I have a full working anonymous email contact system that is intergrated into the Aviano Alpha-Roster for people wishing to contact former Aviano Alumni. Also the website moved to a new web host at the begining of February. This was important as it allowed me to continue providing you with pictures of Alumni and past reunions as well as the yearbooks that I have online. My former host told me that I could no longer do this......so I told him that I no longer required his services. I gzipped the domain and moved. It was a transparent move to the end user, the Aviano Alumni.

Lots of content added to Aviano Italy High School Alumni Website!Added 120 photos to the 90's Alumni photo album. Thanks Lisa! Completed upgrade to the photo albums to a newer version that allows people to place comments to photos before they upload. The guestbook now has an anti Spam feature incorporated into it. All emails that are placed in the user information field are source code converted to raw ASCII. This will block Spam robots from sucking emails out of the guestbook and spamming people with junk emails. Soon we will have the Aviano High School student newspaper online.. More on this to come in the following weeks. Finishing up adding new fields to the Aviano Student Alpha-Roster. I will have a private email feature incorporated with the list. It will consist of a private contact, protecting both the privacy and blocking spam to the recipient. Expect this system in about 2 weeks.

I have placed a new area on the website now called Alpha-Roster. This is an attempt to list all known persons that have ever attended Aviano High School. The list is growing on a daily basis, and will continue to grow until I have exhausted all resources available to me. Look up your name, see if you are listed. You probably are! Once I feel the list is completed, I will be able to build other things associated with the list, such interactive person finder message boards etc. Emily Walsh also allowed me to post over 70 pictures from her times back in Aviano and the pictures are posted in the 90's section in the photo gallery. I also hope to have two more yearbooks online in the very near future. They will be the 1977 and 1978 yearbooks. Check back often for updates.