ELMIRA COLLEGE  ·  CLASS OF 2008

The Memorable Class User Guide

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This site was built so we can tell our stories, remember each other,

stay connected, and share the memories that made us who we are.

 

01 Create Your Account

Exclusive to the Class of ’08

To submit stories, upload photos, comment on memories, or build your alumni networking profile, you’ll need a site account. Click Sign Up anywhere on the site, enter your name, email, and a password you’ll actually remember. Once you’re approved, you’re in.

As a member, you can submit and edit your own stories, upload photos organized by year, and comment on memory posts.

 

A NOTE ON ACCESS: Content uploads are limited to the Class of 2008. This keeps our space personal, safe, and familiar. Alumni from other years and current students are welcome to browse and get to know us.

 

02 All of Our Memories

Sharing stories together, year by year

Under All of Our Memories, you’ll find blog-style posts organized by year or era; think of these as memory anchors. Click into a post like Freshman Year or Senior Year, scroll to the comments, and share whatever surfaces: a memory, a name you haven’t thought of in years, a “do you remember when…” moment, or a reaction to someone else’s story.

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Share as much or as little as you’d like. You can add multiple comments over time, edit or delete your own, and jump back in whenever memory hits. This is meant to feel like sitting around a table together and saying, “Oh wow, I forgot about that.”

 

03 Submit Your Story

Who we were, and who we are now

Navigate to the Submit Your Story page, fill out the form with a title, your story, and an era or year if applicable, and hit Submit. Your story will appear on the site once saved or approved.

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To edit later: Log in, go to the Class of 2008 page, and click Edit My Class Story. You can always come back to add or revise! Let it evolve as you do.

 

04 Submit Your Photos

Organized by year

Head to the Submit a Photo page, upload your image, select the year or era it belongs to, and add a caption or tag classmates if you’d like. If a photo ends up filed under the wrong year, don’t worry, we can fix it.

 

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A Few Reassurances

 

✓  You can edit anything you submit.

✓  You can’t accidentally edit anyone else’s content.

✓  You won’t break the site.

✓  Nothing needs to be perfect.

✓  If you’re thinking “Should I share this?” the answer is yes.

✓  It’s totally okay to come back and add more later.

 

Lost or need help? Email Brittany Morin-Mezzadri at britthyphen@gmail.com.

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One Last Thing

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Since time demands we continue to age, it becomes more evident that our memory doesn’t arrive on demand. Instead, it shows up in fragments, in echoes, under recollection’s magic sway. Friends, we are the Memorable Class and this honorific requires us to participate in the act of remembering.

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By sharing here, we honor:

• our past selves: the awkward students learning, trying, stumbling, growing into adults.

• the alumni and founders who had confidence in a rare ideal and built something worth holding onto.

• our future selves who will return to these stories and find meaning in what we chose to preserve.

 

 

Thank you, dear classmates, for making us memorable.