Editorial - March 25, 2004

Well, this is a site for both the Columbian and Tiffin area communities.  Many of our Columbian viewers reside throughout the nation, and hopefully the TCAA site will bring them memories and a new interest in our Tiffin community.  The site content is your content. We can make this site what you all want to make of it.  Ken Sheldon and others are web mastering their class web page.  Greg Leopold contributes his photos.  The Tornado Connections editors and other authors provide articles.  The number of viewers has increased ten fold since the presentation was changed.  Hopefully our viewers will increase and watch the site daily.

Editorial - March 3, 2004

Hello Mates! Are you using this Tornado Connection Online Web Site? Has your class developed an alumni page? Are you an active member of your class alumni? Are you a class officer or committee member? Did you go to your class reunion? Did you get the Tornado Connections Newsletter last quarter? Are you a TCAA Member? WHY NOT?     I wonder sometimes why I,  your webmaster,  volunteer my time and effort when I am truly not an actual 1953 Columbian graduate.  I think I do it because Tiffin is my "home town".  Is Tiffin your home town?     I went to schools in Tiffin.  Kindergarden at Monroe Street School, 3rd and 4th grades at St. Mary's, 5th and 6th grades at College Hill, Junior High, and one year at Columbian (1950-51).  My family lived on Tomb Street, Clay Street, Second Street, Melissa Street, West Market Street, East Perry Street and Jefferson Street.     I have memories of many classmates.  Tiffin was a great place to have grown up.  Mother's side of my family lived in Fort Ball and Tiffin so far back that there children married in Tiffin in 1833. Thus, there parents must have been early settlers in the area. Maule road is named from Mother's (TC '31) family, and my Great-Grandmother Master/Maule.     As for Dad's family (TC '25, class tresurer),  I have a picture of my Grandfather Reed at 6 months of age, sitting on his Grandfather's knee in 1875.  I wonder if there is a relationship in the names of the Reed Township, and the "Reed strip" that compenstates for the convergence of the lines of longitude in the survey of the area.     Tiffin is where I was raised. I have not lived in Tiffin in 52 years..... "You can take the boy out of the mid-west, but you can't take the mid-west out of the boy!"     I am a TCAA member.     Are you a TCAA member?     Are either or both of your parents TC-grads and not TCAA members?     Are any of your relatives and friends TC graduates and not TCAA members?     If not, then why not? ---- Ron Reed, Web Master('53)