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Our class was small enough to travel to DC for a class trip. In one large passenger van. Lol
I might enjoy seeing some of them. We have a retired Navy officer, a retired firefighter, a project manager for Microsoft, a housewife, an elementary school teacher, and one that I lost track of 45 years ago. Smartest girl in our class but the last time I saw her, she was working at a fast food place. That seems to be a byproduct of her parents having her extremely late in life.
I have stayed really good friends with 6 other women who all met in the first grade. Until COVID we had a reunion every two years (missed this past year). We live all over the country but make time for each other. This is all the reunion I care about.
I have stayed really good friends with 6 other women who all met in the first grade. Until COVID we had a reunion every two years (missed this past year). We live all over the country but make time for each other. This is all the reunion I care about.
That’s so sweet. Hopefully, you’re taken group pictures at every reunion! Those would be great to re-live!
I have only attended one highschool reunion. It was our 25th, it happened soon right after I retired from the Navy. One thing they did that I thought was neat was they copied senior photos onto name tags.
But, there was a slight hitch doing that. We had a little over 700 classmates in our graduating class. The cheerleaders put together the yearbook, and they included all of their friends. If none of the cheerleaders knew you then nobody went to the effort to include your senior portrait. On the last page of our yearbook is a page dedicated to listing all the names of graduating seniors whose photos were not included within the yearbook, four columns of names, I am included on that list. My senior yearbook does not have my photo in it [as I was not very popular in school. I worked fulltime and did not attend any of the after school activities or football games, etc].
The cheerleaders all stayed local and they still get together. The jocks were reliving their highschool 'fame' [kind of reminded me of Al Bundy in 'Married with children' how their most memorable life event was what they did with a football at one game, one time].
Only a small handful of us ever left the hometown, most of them still live within a 40-mile radius.
There was a group that formed discussing their financial investments. I was surprised to see that I was the only person at that time who had already retired.
My highschool class [1977] has its own Facebook page, most of the catching up stuff is done on Facebook.
The football rivalries with neighboring towns is still a big hot topic. Many of their children were also in the marching band or played sports, to follow in the footsteps of their parents.
I drug along a friend who I have kept in contact with all along. He and I sat at a table by ourselves, we did not recognize anyone at the reunion, and nobody there recognized us. It might have helped if either of us had the nametags with our photos. But then again, maybe not.
I have no intent to attend any further reunions. I live 3,000 miles away.
Speaking from personal experience: If I haven't kept in touch in 50 yrs, I didn't see the point of attending my 50th HS reunion.
I had 1 person write and invite me claiming a desire to catch up. So much so that she never responded to any of the letters I sent. Just trying to get me to go to the reunion for some reason.
No, I can't imagine talking to someone after 50 yrs. I can't imagine wanting to.
^^This^^ I didn't keep in touch with anybody from High School so I also see no reason to attend a 50th reunion which will be next year.
All my good friends from the Class of 1963 (57-1/2 years ago) are dead, except one who is in a federal prison for bilking the IRS of millions of dollars with phony tax returns. I've thought of contacting him but am afraid of getting on the government's law enforcement radar.
I was also '63. The last 2 close friends I had kept in touch with for years, died this year.
I didn't go to our 50th reunion and don't regret it, but I do sort of regret having lost touch with them in recent years.
I dragged mine to a gf house when we were in MI to see my mom - one gf brought her boyfriend so he wasn't the only man - but the boyfriend had also been a classmate of mine LOL
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