LHS Class of 1959 Goes High-Tech

The LHS Class of 1959 has gone more high-tech.  To facilitate communication with classmates, who do not have Internet access or use email, we have enlisted the services of www.callemall.com.  This website will accept and store a calling list in several formats, one being Excel.  The list must contain the 10-digit phone number in the first column and the recipient’s name in the second column.  The user or customer can then call a toll-free number and record the message to be broadcast.  The message can be sent immediately or scheduled for a future time and date.

We recently used www.callemall.com in an attempt to notify 66 local classmates of the upcoming class get together at Mary Futch’s home on March 8, 2008.  Fifty-nine of the calls were successful in that either someone answered the phone or an answering machine recorded the message.  We identified two invalid numbers, one for Jim Arnold and one for Martha Jo Bridges Chambers.  The system was unable to call Rose Varnadore Makos, for some reason.  There were three no-answers (Judy Taylor McDaniel, Betty Jean Kennedy Bettag, and Lana Turner Mahoney) after four attempts (system limit), and Yvonne Johnson’s phone was busy during all four attempts.

Since the calling list is stored at www.callemall.com, future notifications to these persons will take less than one minute, and the list can be edited online, if necessary.