Welcome to the sixth on-line edition. This should be read with the same interest and attention
as the messages in Assembly each Morning! So sit up and pay attention!
WEEKLY WEBSITE UPDATES
The website is updated each Sunday night, usually after the monitor has had tea! See : -
Thank you to everyone who has offered ideas regarding the sponsor of the MELIORA Website. The
ideas have been most thought provoking and have raised some requests that the Monitors had not
even contemplated. The website has always been designed to be as inclusive as possible - you
may have been the best or worst person of your year - but everyone is now equal.
Taking the suggestion that many people would like to contribute a little to ensure the sites
continuation and development it is proposed that individual pages should be available for
sponsorship. The pages will be made on first come first served basis and pages may be reserved
for a period of seven days to allow payment to be made. The scale of charges is as follows
and the period of sponsorship will be for one year subject to the following maximums £5 per
individual £25 per business :-
All Year Indexes and -mail Indexes £5 per individual per year £25 per business per year
All other pages £1 per individual per year £5 per business per year
The Main Home index and The All Year index etc have been sponsored by PSLOFTS for the next 12
months.
The name of the sponsor will appear both on the page and on the new list of sponsor's page
It is proposed that the website will use part of the sponsorship money to provide a school
prize in the name of The Meliora Website at both the Main School and Sixth Form College.
Please e-mail the Sponsorship Monitor to reserve any pages or for further information. Details
of how to submit payment will be sent when your page(s) have been reserved.
Should this sponsorship prove very successful then the period of sponsorship may be
increased beyond twelve months WITHOUT any further charge - the Monitors wish it to be known
that this is not a personal money making scheme on the lines of other national 'friends'
sites.
However should this sponsorship prove a flop then the future of MELIORA will be - oh dear.
MELIORA INTERACTIVE
Meliora Interactive Question number one proved very popular and your votes and comments kept the
monitors both amused and busy throughout January view the results online now
JANUARY POLL RESULTS and don't forget to read the many now
JANUARY POLL COMMENTS comments which accompanied the
results - names have been removed to save any embarrassment. The next question is now
on-line and will remain open until the end of March - What was your favourite and worst subject
at school - what made you eager for school and what subject was so bad that you would actully dread
the day you had a double lesson of it? Please e-mail the Poll Monitor at the special address
School Subject Poll
If you wish to add any comments or submit any memories on this subject please e-mail the Comment Monitor:-
School Subject Comments
THE MELIORA WEBSITES BIGGEST EVER PROJECT
The latest project from the Meliora Website is to be the placing of a
fitting memorial to Old Boy 1944 starter Gerald Richardson who the School and the town of Blackpool should
not forget.
Gerald Richardson was shot down in the line of duty on August 23rd 1971 and is the highest ranking Police
Officer to have died in the line of duty
Members of the website will be disgusted to learn that Gerry Richardsons gravestone in Layton Cemetary
was the target for graffiti.
The website has been in negotiation with the Trustees of the Memorial Room - The
present Head teacher - and other interested persons. The website now only needs the blessing of Geralds widow Maureen - herself an
Old Girl of Collegiate. Maureen appears to winter abroad and attempts to contact her have proved impossible so far.
The Website is confident that Maureens consent will be obtained by the end of March.
Details will be announced when it is appropriate and final details have been
arranged. I hope that several members of the website will be invited as
guests to a ceremony (or even assembly) to be held in the School at some
point in the next 6 months. As mentioned in the e-mail sent to advertise
this edition of The Meliorian I would especially like to hear from all
members past and present of the Police Force.
E-MAIL ADDRESS
The cull of failing e-mail addresses continues to remove naughty addresses. The
continuing migration from dial up to broadband internet connections is still
the major problem so please let the e-mail monitor know if you change your
address - you do not want to miss that all important e-mail do you!.
MATERIAL FOR THE WEBSITE
Material for the website is always required and the diverse range of items
displayed makes the site the envy of other former Blackpool Schools Pupils.
The monitor has been approached for advice from two other schools alumni
recently for details on how MELIORA came about and got started. Membership
of our e-mail lists now exceed 1000 entries with new members each and every
week. If you come across any material when having a good tidy up please let
the website know and please send it in rather than throw it out!.
REUNIONS
Once again the Reunion scene is buzzing with new events being planned.
Please let the Reunion Monitor know if you have a mini get together with a
short report and a photo if possible. It is very rewarding to learn that
the website is responsible for small groups meeting up in Canada, Australia,
USA, Spain and New Zealand.
ERRORS AND SPELLING MISTAKES
The website is written in notepad and mainly by my rather clumsy typing. If you should find
any errors on any page please feel free to let me know so I may change them
and keep up the high standard fitting of ‘your’ old school. Simply e-mail with the error
and the last part of the page address (e.g. this would be meliorian0203.htm). The same applies to any dead or non functioning links.
The website contains approx. 1400 pages.
VIRUSES AND MALICIOUS E-MAIL
Sadly not everyone who uses the Internet is of sound mind and there are
individuals out there who get pleasure from damaging equipment and systems
of others.
There have been instances where e-mails purorting to have come from site members have been
sent. These have not originated from the named sender, but from a malicious source
Viruses are generally sent as an attachment to an e-mail. If you are not expecting an e-mail with an attactchment it may be better not
to open it until further enquiries have been made.
Under no circumstances will an e-mail be sent from: -
e-mail accounts with an attachment UNLESS it has been requested by the
recipient. This occurs occasionally when a better quality copy of a
photograph etc is sought.
There has also been a rash of good intentioned e-mails advising recipients to delete non virus bearing genuine.
SITE SEARCH ENGINE
To use the search engine just details in the box below. The website is re-indexed every
Monday