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LOL, I just got back from my 25-year high school class reunion. I
am SO glad to see that I was not the ONLY person with graying hair
and a few more extra pounds around what USED to be my waistline!

The nice thing, also, was, that they made stick-on badges with each
person's high school grad photo and name....as age creeps up, you
tend to NOT recognize people that you've not seen in a long time -
that was a lifesaver for me!!

You're a better "man" than I am, Milady...I wouldn't dignify any such reunion with my presence.

Hope you had a great time! We conveniently "forgot" to have our 20th reunion last year - the people who have complained the loudest about it are the same people that don't want to do any of the actual planning - next time they can take care of it <g>.

In 2001 they had an "All School Reunion" for my high school, and are planning another one for next year - to me, that should negate the need to have individual reunions.

No need for name tags at our class reunions - with only 36 graduates in my class, it isn't too hard to figure out who is who!

Kim

LOL, Kim, we never got around to doing our 20-yr. reunion,
either...we kinda skipped from 15 to 25. We had 57 in our class -
21 showed up, tonight. But, the stories were fun - I laughed
myself silly!

Hey, Bill - I skipped a couple, but, I decided to show, tonight, just
to let them know that the "NUT" is still crazy, after all these years...

My graduating class was 1500+...of which I wouldn't have wanted to see 1498 of them.

1500 graduates??? Wow! I truly DID go to a small town
school! I wouldn't feel the least bit guilty about forgetting names
if we'd had that many people in our class!

My 25th year anniversary is coming up in November. I haven't been to any of the other ones and I'm debating about this one.

You should go, Steph. We all envision ourselves as the ONE person
who has changed, drastically...it's not like that, at all...

Glad you had a good time Annette. I skipped my 25th a couple years ago. Maybe they'll have a 30, coming up. My wife would not be interested in going, and if I go by myself then I get 150 questions when I get home. That's my dillema.

breeze wrote:You should go, Steph. We all envision ourselves as the ONE person
who has changed, drastically...it's not like that, at all...

How COOL Breeze! I'd love to go to a reunion, sadly, there's not that many of my class left. Please don't take this as a case of racial profiling however, with the HUGE problem of drugs, alcohol on the reservation, out of a class of 42, 17 have passed on due to either drug overdose or alcoholism Now the classmates I DO see in the store or during a "traffic stop" they look OLD.....and I know that "I" don't look a day OLDER than I did back in 1977

Dennis

Annette - glad you enjoyed your 25th Reunion! Sounds like you had a great time. I've been to all of my reunions. Although our class skipped our 25th too. The same group of girls (went to an all-girls Catholic HS) who had student council positions and carried that attitude into our reunions, always being on the committees, balked at the 25th. Seems there was a lot of feedback over how expensive our 20th was and why was it so upsclale. Why not just hold it at our HS, many said. I guess the feedback was so strong, this group said that's it, we're not volunteering our time anymore. So our 20th came and went, no reunion! We almost didn't have a 30th either, but we snuck it in under the timeframe, it almost became our 31st reunion. A different group stepped forward and organized it. I would not want to be on this committee either, 243 graduates, but about 1/3 come back. Maybe close to a half. We skip the spouses now, they're usually bored out of their minds. My husband breathes a sigh of relief, b/c he was saved, he only had to attend a family picnic for my 20th. Holding a beer, munching on a burger, dressing casual wasn't that bad. Stick him at a black tie, sit down dinner affair and he'd be asking to get out of it. The only husbands that want to go are guys who went to neighboring all boy HS's and who knew many in our graduating class.

The class reunion I want to crash is my ex's....dang, I can't! He went to an all-boy's school and I remember many from his class. I never hear how they are anymore.......oh well! I wish I knew someone from his class, that I could just borrow a directory, to see who married who, etc. I had history there with his classmates, and poof it was all gone when we got divorced.

Mary

At our 25th, we walked right by it because all the people in the ballroom were much older than I was.

We had photos taken for an album, but because the treasurer of the event used our money for personal reasons, we didn't get our photo album unless we signed up for the 30th!

These days, I have about 8 former classmates I keep in touch with online, so I DO have at least a small pipeline open back to the class of 1964!

Chat is mostly about grandkids, retirement, and ailments...but we often throw in a little reminder of those high school days.

Bill...I had a graduating class of around 300, of which perhaps 260 had little in common with me then. Over the years, though, the walls came down, the memories became more important than the cliques, and as we have lost more classmembers each year, we tend to be thankful for those that are left...even a handful of those we couldn't stand back then.

My 50th will be in 2014! Yet I remain locked into to my 30's (until I look in the mirror!).

Glad you had a nice time there Breeze. We must always be thankful we are even here.

Bill - completely forgot to comment on your class graduating size - wow, 1500! That's unbelievable. I have to ask, is your alma mater still that large, or did they split into 2 high school's maybe? In my district, we have 2. In one suburb of Cincinnati, they have 10 schools combined, 3 HS's, several all K's, the rest Elem and/or Middle. That is one huge district.

Mary

They opened a new "split-off" HS four years after I graduated...and closed a number of elementary schools as soon as the baby-boom began to drop from its high-water mark.

Now, those schools have to be reopened due to a NEW "baby-boom"!

BTW, my high school had 5,300 students per year on average when I attended...it had five buildings, and still looks like a college campus (widely spread-out, greens areas, and TRY to make it to class from the northernmost building to the southernmost within the allotted 5 minutes!).