The easiest way to find out is to look at the mailing label on your most
recent AHSAA newsletter. There are two or three numbers above your name.
If there are two numbers, they are your graduation number and graduation year. If there are only two numbers, then you are
not a current member of the AHSAA. Join
If there are three numbers, the third number is the year your membership expires.
I'm not a dues paying member and I received a postcard or AHSAA newsletter?
Up until 2010, even if you were not a dues paying AHSAA member, we would to send you the first
AHSAA newsletter of the year, but starting May 2010 we only send a postcard once a year to all
non dues paying AHS Alumni.
Why do we do this?
We love to keep in contact with you.
We want you to keep your membership active.
In case you have moved, we send all postcards or newsletters 1st class postage and we will
usually receive your new address back from the post office.
We only send postcards once a year to non-dues paying AHS Alumni to keep postage costs
down, and to reduce the amount of paper waste. The only way to recieve a current newsletter is to join
Hey! I haven't received any AHSAA newsletters or even a postcard for a long time?
If you are an AHS Alumni, and you are not receiving at least one postcard
or newsletter per year in the Spring,
then we do not have your current mailing address, or your address is still in care of your parents and they are
not giving you your mail (see below).
It's soooo easy to let us know your current address, and only takes 2 minutes, 3 if you went to Welch (JUST KIDDING!!).
Click here and email AHSAA your
current mailing address, or you can send your updated mailing address to AHSAA
1921 Ames High Drive, Ames, Iowa 50010. Be sure and tell us what year you graduated, your full name, and maiden
name, and while your at it, your email address. If you have any AHS stories from the
"good 'ol days" we like to hear those too, and some of them will make it into our newsletter.
My address is in care of my Parents and they forgot to give me my 10 year AHS
class reunion info and I missed my reunion!! :-(
Hmmm... after all these years :-) we understand, your busy
and you haven't updated your address since AHS days, and the newsletter and all reunion mailings are still being
delivered % parents. Check the label on your last newsletter, it should be your current address not a %
(which means in care of).
AHSAA hates %, and thousands of our mailing addresses are still listed as %. We have a harder time keeping track
of you if you have an in care of address, and your classmates will have a harder time getting AHS class reunion notices to you.
If you are getting your newsletters in c/o your parents or another address and they move there is a high chance we will
lose your address, and you will be on our lost list instead of getting that next reunion registration form.
All reunions get Alumni address lists from the AHSAA. Its a free service we provide
to reunion committees, and we are happy to do that.
mail
your current address to us, or mail it.
How many newsletters will I receive if I am a member?
Current AHSAA members receive three newsletters
each year. These newsletters are not posted on www.ahsalum.org for at least 3 to
5 years. The only way to recieve a current newsletter is to become a dues paying member.
If you are not a member we would love to have you join.
My spouse and I are both AHS grads and are receiving two newsletters.
Could you please just send one to both of us?
I appreciate that you want to concerve our precious resources, as much as I would love to do that,
we are not able for a couple of reasons.
Since we are an all volunteer committee of only 6 people tracking 21,000 alumni, we can err easily
if we don't send one newsletter to every AHS Alumni at least once per year.
The good news is we only mail 1 Spring newsletter per year to all dues-paying and non-dues-paying
AHS Alumni (of course, dues-paying members receive ALL
AHSAA newsletters every year).
Besides getting all the latest AHSAA news to you, one of the main reasons we send at
least one newsletter to every AHSAA Alumni once per year, is to get back your forwarding
address if you move and forget to inform us of your new location. I'm sure this would never happen to you,
but with the divorce rate at 50% there is a chance we might lose some Alumni if we only send one mailing, and
they each go their separate way.
Sorry about that, and I do get this request about 6 times per year, but we are all about keeping all the
AHSAA records as accurate as possible for all Alumni, so we keep sending out to
each and every one of our classmates once per year.
Who joins AHSAA?
Bill Ripp gave a short report on new and renewed meberships at the January 16, 2007
AHSAA monthly meeting. In the past 3 years 3,507 memberships have been
recieved with an average of 1,169 memberships per year for the last 3 years.
3,507 AHSAA memberships since 2004 (by total memberships per year)
2004 1,120
2005 1,281
2006 1,106
total 3,507 new or renewed memberships 2004-2006
1,106 memberships total in 2006 (by AHS graduation year)
