Jill Park (Doyle) 71, Anita Donohoe 66, John Hainley 75 and Khan Klatt 90 are the founders of Connections. Together they have over 30 years of experience in providing various means and resources by which Ankara alumni can stay in touch.

While vacationing in Montana, Jill received a phone call from Anita. The discussion centered on the possibility of launching a new site for Ankara High School. These may not have been her exact words, but she said something like, "If you build it, they will come." More advanced functions were needed if a new site was published, and neither Jill or Anita had the background in writing technical computer scripts. Anita approached John Hainley, and he became the third founding member. Jill approached Khan, since he had worked on AnkaraReunion.com. Khan became our fourth and youngest founding member.

Connections is a unique alumni site. It represents over 50 class years of students from all 50 states and countries across the world. Their focus is on students that graduated from the school in Ankara as well as faculty.Connections is all-volunteer, several Trojans pooling resources and skills to keep you informed and encourage contact through online communications.

Jill, Anita, John and Khan recognized from the inception of Connections that they would need the help and cooperation of other alumni to be successful. Fortunately, many of the people that helped in the past were willing to participate in this project, and many new volunteers are involved. Please take the time to view the list of Trojans behind Connections.

Learn more about Jill, Anita, John and Khan below.

Anita lives in California where she helps manage the family ranch. Rancho San Julian is a traditional working cattle ranch, wildlife preserve and a film location.

She has one daughter, Melina, who lives in Toronto with her husband Mike. She also has two step daughters; Maya lives in Portland; Kaliel lives in NYC.

Over the past ten years, Anita has devoted a great deal of her time and energy to help Ankara alumni stay connected. Her Ankara email list has grown from 40 to1600 addresses.

Letter from Anita

John Hainley, 1975
Technical scripting

"I realized just how much reconnecting with some old classmates meant to me."

John has been involved in computers since the early 90's and currently runs two computer businesses, MidCities Computer Consultants and Remote Backup Systems of Texas.  His passions include computers (imagine that!), golf, and his family.

John resides in Bedford, Texas with Roann, his spouse of 27 years. John and Roann have two children, Sandra (22) and Jeff (18).

John started a "My Family" Web site seven years ago in an effort to reconnect fellow students from his time at George C. Marshall Regional High School.

Letter from John