I recently did a Google seach on the words "Sunset High School." I got 2,830 hits. I did one several years ago and got many more hits. I think the difference now is that the Google search engine has been redesigned to give higher quality hits. Most of the hits relate to our Sunset and a Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon. I invite you to do your own Google search on "Sunset High School." Use the quote marks to limit your search. Otherwise, you will get a total of three searches, one for each word.

Some of the hits are commercial web sites. You will learn to recognize them. The ones you find about our Sunset will reward your time. There is one that has a history of Oak Cliff along with names and pictures of some of the grads who went on to claim fame and fortune. Expect to spend about an hour exploring.

At one time, Bettye Brewer Olive '45 had an excellent Sunset web page. Bettye's page was out there when the rest of us were still learning how to e-mail. She had a guest book and a gallery of e-mail addresses of Sunsetters that was very informative. Unfortunately, some of the members of younger classes began putting inappropriate comments on her guest book, so she shut it down.

Earlier this year, Bettye suffered a stroke and is not as active as she once was. Her web page has been taken down for some time, which is a shame. Bettkye's page is not likely to become active again as she is not able to maintain it.

Since my previous search, there have been several entries made on the Wikipedia site on the Internet about schools named Sunset High School. One of the newer entries obviously was done by a Dallas Sunsetter. It gives an abbreviated history of the school, the names of some famous people who attended, and various activities of Sunset alumni groups and students. For those not acquainted with Wikipedia, it is something like an online encyclopedia. It is an example of anarchy in action. Anyone can post a topic to Wikipedia. And then, anyone else can edit it. It is monitored to remove obscene and treasonable material. Otherwise, it operates pretty much unstructured. To take a look just click on Sunset. [Whoops! I just checked the link and it does not work. I'll have to straighten it out later.] You will be rewarded by a picture of a vintage post card showing the building in its early days. If you click on various links on the Wikipedia Sunset page, you can find out such things as the enrollment patterns of Sunset and the middle and elementary schools that feed into it. You might be surprised by the info you find.

This page here is simply an adjunct to the newsletter put out by the classes of 1938-1946 (plus some others). Several of us work on the newsletter which goes out twice a year to about 2,000 people. I long have wanted to put one out more often but have never been able to do so for a number of reasons. A big reason is the cost of postage, at least $750 per issue. It's not that we don't have the money. Our readers are very generous with their voluntary donations. As a matter of fact, we have not had to make an appeal for funds in nearly 15 years. How many other organizations can say that?

Recognizing that more and more of our former classmates have Internet access, either directly or through their grandkids, I decided to try this method of getting the word out on happenings about Sunset and Dallas. Once before I tried to distribute an electronic newsletter to about 100 Sunset people via electronic mass mailing but gave it up. Keeping the email addresses updated got to be a hassle and the current spam issue is making electronic newsletters less and less popular. This way, anyone who is interested can bookmark the web address or put into his or her favorite's list and check in when they want to. There's no cost, either.

This page probably will be of more interest to those graduates who live outside Dallas and Texas (and there are a lot of them). Most of the stuff that gets in here comes from local news sources, TV and local newspapers (Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, Oak Cliff Tribune, etc.) and the locals have already read it. I will be able to include more pictures here. There just isn't room in the print version. Inevitably, a lot of these entries will be repeated in the printed newsletter (except for the pictures), so bear with us. If you find this useful, let me know. If I'm not doing any good, I've got other ways I can spend my time.