Princeton High School
Class of 1966
Issues Forum

We have things on our mind, and sometimes it's good to share them with others so that good ideas can be heard and bad ideas can be tossed in the dustbin. It's especially interesting when the individuals discussing matters come from the same place — meaning both the same physical place as well as the same place in time. That's us. We've had our class website for a number of years and we have been sharing information about our fellow classmates on the Tiger Tales page. 

It's probably a good idea to keep the Tiger Tales page solely as a discussion of our PHS experience and of recent events in our lives. But it might be that, on occasion, we have something to say that is a matter of "issues". Heaven knows there's no shortage of issues today! So, whether this Issues Discussion page gets used or not is up to you. One ingoing thought is to perhaps stay away from the twin forks of every bad attempt to bring about persuasion to your point of view: the subjects of politics and religion.

That's not saying we shouldn't get into politics and religion, it's just saying those two subjects never fail to alienate as many people as it does bring others to your point of view. So, let loose in any way you'd care to, but recognize that we have all had experience with some bad feelings coming from discussion of politics and religion.

However, there's a ton of other issues that grab our attention daily, so please feel free to offer your thoughts and perhaps someone else will join in the discussion!

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Questions Answered
Hi Ron — good to hear from you! Twice, no less! You have a dramatic way of bringing up questions, but I’ll gladly answer them. You’re somehow troubled by my use of email addresses that everyone in our class who has an email address has access to. You, too. Going back five years with many emails going out to all of our classmates, and right up to the very email you’re troubled by, everyone can view everyone else’s email address simply by clicking on the “To:” part of the email at the top. Everyone’s email list is displayed and can be captured by copying and pasting to your email contacts page. You once told me you don’t know how to copy and paste, so you might have to learn how to do this, but you can see that there’s no proprietary administrator information in this. Any of our classmates can do it.   

So, that’s not an issue. Let’s see what is. Ron, you wonder who else received my Covid information email. To restate what the email itself said, it went to virtually everyone on my email address book, including friends and relatives in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and the U.K. Wanting to relate the hard-to-find information not carried by the mainstream media, the last group of people I wanted to omit from distributing this expert knowledge is my own high school classmates. It was a lot of information, and the bulk of its content was not in what I myself typed on the page but the many hours of archival documentation and testimony from many of the world’s leading medical doctors, research scientists, and Nobel Prize winners available only by way of clickable links in the email. 

An email is the only way to convey this information, apart from posting this sort of thing on a website, which I did not do, only making a page dedicated to discussion of any issue. We all think of things that perhaps others could benefit by, and this issues page is a good place to do it. 

So, to return to the issue of privacy, there is no loss of privacy since the only people my PHS Class of ‘66 email went to in that particular “send” are the PHS Class of ’66 people. I didn’t mingle any of our classmates’ email addresses in any larger mailing; my mailing was done by way of groups of people at a time, and the only ones in that particular group was ourselves.

To answer another question, Ron, there has been no “breech of privacy” in this mailing or any other. No one saw any of our email addresses but ourselves, which we have been able to do for five years, as I said. And to directly answer your question about sharing our information with anyone else, the answer is no, so fear not.

As to “unilaterally” setting up a page for the Issues Forum, I plead guilty as charged. I also unilaterally set up the Tiger Tales page, the Reunion Video page, the Getting Started page, the Donations page, the Classmates page, the Life Stories page, the Class List page, the In Memory page, the School Life page, the Photos-Family page, the Photos-Princeton page, the Photos-Reunion page, the Photos-School Days page, the Photos-Yearly page, the Photos-General page, the Stories page, the Reunion Awards page, the Hobby Central page, the Survey page, the Princeton Area page, and the Contact Us page. 

The accusation of “conspiracy theories” is interesting since the only information presented in my email is all from highly respected medical doctors and scientists of the highest caliber. It’s from documentation coming from the U.S. Patent Office. It’s from Nobel Prize winners in medical science. The reason I put up the new Issues page is so that anyone can weigh in on any aspect of any issue, Covid or not Covid. And, if you have any specific disagreement with any particular aspect of what I provided in the email, you are free to post a contrasting view. I would only ask you be more specific than just saying “nah”to the whole thing. 

Like life itself, this issue is complex and made of many parts. Pick one, or preferably more, and let’s have a discussion, allowing you to enlighten me. Maybe I have something wrong, but I’d like to hold you to the same standard as I’ve held myself to: that your information should provide data, and contains links to sources and to testimony and reports from credentialed experts who are leaders in their field.

 If I’m wrong about something, I always want to know why it’s wrong so I can be on the right side of knowledge by adopting the new information. To use a gambler’s lingo, “there’s no percentage in being wrong” and, in fact, I’ve always welcomed being corrected on any matter so that I can be right about it. I hate to be wrong! So, if I have it wrong in some section or sections, please do me the favor of setting me straight, but with objective science, not your opinion. Your opinion matters as little as my opinion.

It may be that I’m not nearly as smart as you, but I was able to learn from the physical data, official records, and medical professionals testifying in my email. You can, too. And you don’t have to search for important content; it’s all served up on a platter for you by my efforts.

I’ve received positive response to my email from many people in our class, most of which consider my draft as a gift, a gift of knowledge amid a desert of real science. They are appreciative and say they will profit by it, as ignoring it comes at one’s own peril in terms of being broadsided by future events when these eventualities are painted as a clear picture by the world’s leading experts in my report.

It’s interesting you put a political twist on purely medical information. There is nothing political whatsoever in my email. It’s all science, and I’d like to point out that your statement that "the concept of the website was  to share information from the past 50 years, allowing classmates an opportunity to become reaqainted" has not changed in any way. All the class website sections mentioned above are still there and are solely focused on our lives during and since good ‘ol PHS. My only thought was that we could also provide a forum to share information about issues impacting all our lives. You can post about lumbago treatments if you’d like. Or about what a drag it is go be getting older. Or how much it hurts to bend over. Whatever!

As for firing “Mr. Hetmer” from PHS class website administrator duties, fine! Someone else can do it! There were many times while putting the website together, logging in hundreds of hours doing so, that I wished I had more help. But I arrive at these duties by default. I thought it was a good idea to have a class website, so I was the one elected to do it. If others don’t want to be challenged by the concept of having an Issues page, fine. I can easily delete it, and we won’t have to think about serious things anymore. If someone does want the job, though, it has to be someone who can spell the words “same”, “received”, “control”, “our”, “peddle”, “in”, “reacquainted”, “vehicle”, “positions”, “Heymer”, “an”, and “don’t”, so we can take applications for the job, but it needs to be someone with computer skills and a working knowledge of the language.

I hope this answers your questions. For my part, as I said in my email, if the scientific information presented by the world’s most acclaimed doctors and scientists can help even one person, it’s worth the effort. Jacqueline Kennedy said of her husband, President John F. Kennedy "He believed that one man can make a difference – and that every man should try.“ 

I tried.  

And by the way, even though the general intent of your post is to censor what you don't like, Ron, free speech is alive and well here on our class website. Your post — both of them — remain here for everyone to read.

Be well, everyone!           

Mike Heymer
Covid-19: The story that never ends....

I have just now sent an email to everyone in our class that has an email address on file with us. It goes without saying that I have a lot to say about all things Covid. I'd finish that thought by saying "good, bad, or ugly", but in this case there's nothing good about it; it's just bad and ugly in many, many ways. I've said what I had to say in the email and, if you have any comments one way or the other, here's a place to weigh in on the matter.

As I mentioned in the email, it's something of great concern to me, and I've been collecting information about it for months, and I've spent the last few weeks putting together the email you see sitting in your email inbox. If you look at everything, it will take you weeks — but you'd really have a well rounded background in the who, what, why, how, and where of this very ugly matter. Maybe you have something to say about it, too. If so, here's where you can do it. Until later....... Mike Heymer

Inappropriate Usage

On Oct 17, 2021 I recieved an unsolicited e-mail from Mike Heymer. That sme I recieved notice of activity on the PHS website.

Putting aside the content of Mr. Heymer's e-mail. I am trouble by the following:

First, Mr. Heymer is the website administrator, giving him complete cntrol over content and access to any and all information we provided to the PHS site, one of those things being our personal e-mails. With access to those e-mails, Mr. Heymer hijacked that information and used it to to send out his curious sales pitch. I have no idea, who besides the PHS list the e-mail was sent to, but Mr. Heymer has abrogated his responsibility to maintain the privacy of the information we provide to the website. We have no way of knowing if is the first time he has used his administrator capacity to breech ou privacy, or whether there have been other occurances. Again he has complete control of the data. For all we know he has shared our information, which we presumed to be private, with others.

Second, unilaterally he has added the ISSUES FORUM with the implied intent of drawing attention to his e-mail and its content. I don't believe the website was created so that it could be used to peddlig tupperware, let alone conspriacy theories.

Un fact when we signed on the concept of the website was  to share information from the past 50 years, allowing classmates an opportunity to become reaqainted. It was not intended to become  vehilcle for the distribution of political ipositions.

I believe Mr Hetmer has severly violated his responsibilites as adminstarator and should do the "right thing" by surrendering the position. I am and advocate of the the adage " Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" I do't intend to be fooled twice.

Ron Whitcomb
Inappropriate Usage

On Oct 17, 2021 I recieved an unsolicited e-mail from Mike Heymer. That sme I recieved notice of activity on the PHS website.

Putting aside the content of Mr. Heymer's e-mail. I am trouble by the following:

First, Mr. Heymer is the website administrator, giving him complete cntrol over content and access to any and all information we provided to the PHS site, one of those things being our personal e-mails. With access to those e-mails, Mr. Heymer hijacked that information and used it to to send out his curious sales pitch. I have no idea, who besides the PHS list the e-mail was sent to, but Mr. Heymer has abrogated his responsibility to maintain the privacy of the information we provide to the website. We have no way of knowing if is the first time he has used his administrator capacity to breech ou privacy, or whether there have been other occurances. Again he has complete control of the data. For all we know he has shared our information, which we presumed to be private, with others.

Second, unilaterally he has added the ISSUES FORUM with the implied intent of drawing attention to his e-mail and its content. I don't believe the website was created so that it could be used to peddlig tupperware, let alone conspriacy theories.

Un fact when we signed on the concept of the website was  to share information from the past 50 years, allowing classmates an opportunity to become reaqainted. It was not intended to become  vehilcle for the distribution of political ipositions.

I believe Mr Hetmer has severly violated his responsibilites as adminstarator and should do the "right thing" by surrendering the position. I am and advocate of the the adage " Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" I do't intend to be fooled twice.

Ron Whitcomb
 
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