It’s not easy to find the office of ClassCreator.com on Packard. “We’ve been too busy to put up a sign,” explains founder and CEO Brad Switzer. A 1986 Pioneer High grad, Switzer was asked to do a pro-bono website for his class’s twenty-year reunion–and almost immediately recognized the potential of a business that would make it easy for classes to create their own sites. For eighteen months, Switzer paid programmers to develop wizards, templates, and other simple tools for planning reunions. He used his own money to help dozens of reunion organizers develop their own sites at no charge. Then, this past January, ClassCreator.com launched a billing system, charging a maximum of $9 per month to reunion site administrators. Other class members pay nothing–and by September, more than 600,000 had signed up. With revenues of $40,000-$50,000 per month, the company now has seven full-time and two part-time employees. Switzer–who studied communications, not programming, at EMU–attributes the site’s success to ease of use. He says reunion organizers can have a site up and running in half an hour, and many users are in their seventies.
Upcoming Events
- June 16, 2026 Nature Play Pop-Up: Floating & Boating 10:00 am
- June 16, 2026 “Loving Our Neighbors”: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 10:00 am
- June 16, 2026 “Investigate Labs”: U-M Museum of Natural History 11:00 am
- June 16, 2026 Duplicate Bridge: Ann Arbor City Club 1:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 Elements of Gardening (1 of 2 events) 2:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 “History & Heroism”: Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival Shorts Series 2:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 “Japan Week: Make a Print Inspired by Japanese Art”: Ann Arbor District Library/U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) 2:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 Ann Arbor Area Scrabble Club 4:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 “Pioneer Day at Sharon Mills”: Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation Commission 4:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 Game Night: Sylvan Factory 5:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 “Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival 5:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 “Women’s Pond Walk”: Ann Arbor Parks & Recreation Environmental Education 5:30 pm
- June 16, 2026 “Transitional Intelligence”: American Business Women’s Association 5:45 pm
- June 16, 2026 Drop-in Knitting: Spun 6:00 pm
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- June 16, 2026 French Canadian Music Session: Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance 7:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 Huron Valley Harmonizers Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society 7:00 pm
- June 16, 2026 Polka Jam Session: American Legion Hall 7:00 pm
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- June 16, 2026 The Moth StorySlam: U-M Michigan Public 7:30 pm
- June 16, 2026 “A Conversation with Jill Biden”: Marquee Arts 7:30 pm
- June 16, 2026 “Hot Set Comedy”: Hear.Say Brewing + Theater 8:00 pm