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Wayne Sports History Remembered

For years, photos of Tom Gentile ’70 and Kevin Hill ’71 have been displayed in the Wayne Central trophy cases. Most recently located in the lobby of the new gym. It had been noticed that these photos had faded and deteriorated somewhat over the years. Kudos to Roger Hansen, Sandra St. James, John Abbott and Glen Cone for restoring these photos, which will soon be adorning the display cases again at Wayne Central.

Sorry if I missed anyone else who was involved. Great work by everyone. Maybe someone can grab a photo when they are on display again.

Class of 2004 8th Grade Washington Trip

Found this in the archives – the Class of 2004 trip to Washington, DC in April 2000. It was in a VHS video format, and is just still pictures with a music background audio track. The quality was pretty poor to begin with, and time hasn’t helped much. But better than nothing, so I used a video capture device to transfer to mp4 format. The original photos are probably who knows where, but they would be much better quality. The choice to put these on VHS was interesting, but I suppose in the year 2000, almost everyone had a VHS player and some smaller number of families had a PC with a CD-ROM player.

A link has been put on the Video Links page, but here is the video / link:

2007 Senior Extras Video

As promised, the 2007 Seniors Extras video that was part of the graduation DVD set has been uploaded to YouTube. Here is the video/link:

Some Video Links

I had a couple of Wayne graduations on various media (VHS/DVD), so I decided to digitize them. They are way too large to upload and store them here, so I used YouTube and made links. I also found some videos on the Wayne Central YouTube page, and included links to a few graduation ceremonies they have uploaded.

  • 2001 Graduation
  • 2007 Graduation
  • 2007 Senior Extras (coming soon)
  • 2020 Graduation
  • 2021 Graduation
  • 2023 Graduation
  • 2024 Graduation
  • 2025 Graduation

Link is below. I can’t explain why 2022 is missing. I could not find it on the Wayne Central YouTube channel.

I also have another Class of 2007 video I am working on, but having issues, and hoping a new DVD drive may solve the problem. This affected the 2001 and 2007 graduation videos as well, but I think I was able to splice together sections so nothing was lost, though there may be some short repeated sections and glitches that cause short pauses in the videos in some spots.

If my new DVD drive solves the issue, maybe I will re-record them to digital.

This seems to be all I have access to for now. It is fairly time-consuming to make them, but if anyone has VHS tapes, DVDs or links to existing videos, maybe more could be added.

Here is the link to the page:
https://waynealumni.org/video-links/