I am class of 97 too and when the forum was upgraded and we had to reregister, I forgot to capitalize bert and got a new born on date.
I remember that there was a reregistration, but am surprised I missed committing to it by four months, that is, that it started in 12/97 while my date shows 4/98 For a while we didn't have access to seeing our start date, IIRC.
HF