Facebook reunites another choir

By THERESA GOFFREDO

The power of the social network can kick-start a revolution,
inspire an Academy-Award winning movie and ignite old flames. In
Marysville, Facebook created a choir.

It all started with Lakey Malan, a 1997 graduate of
Marysville-Pilchuck High School, who was talking to a friend one
day, trying to remember some details about a song the high school
choir performed 15 years ago.

Just for the heck of it, Malan decided to go online and see if
anybody remembered the song.

Bam. That’s all it took.

“Within about 10 minutes, I had a big long thread of comments,”
Malan said.

From that point, Malan said the Facebook chatter turned to
tracking down former Marysville-Pilchuck High School choir members
from 1991 to 2004.

“And the thing just exploded,” Malan said. “I got hundreds of
responses from all over.”

In a week, the former choir students organized a reunion – not
virtual but real – that was held in November 2009. That reunion
included a cyber-connection to a Marine Corps base in Okinawa so
former choir member Darren Di Marco could participate via a laptop
on a music stand.