My 10-Year Class Reunion - What a Blast - Share a Picture!!!

Ken C. said:
My hair was a lot longer by the time I graduated in June of 1989.

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Ken,

Got a picture of you with the longer hair???? :D

Judy
 
Many years ago I went to my 5 year high school reunion.

Ran into a pretty little girl that I had a crush on during most of high school. :thumbup:

Found out that she had a crush on me all through high school too. :thumbup: :thumbup:

I wasn't dating anyone at the time, so I instantly asked her out. :thumbup: :thumbup: :cool:

But she was getting married the next Saturday. :eek: :mad:

Was so disappointed, that I never went back to another one of my reunions ever again.

But it taught me the truth to the wisdom, "You snooze, you lose."
 
This year would be my 20th, only my class was so apathetic nobody has planned one!! I wouldn't have gone anyway - I live and work in the community I went to school in, and only had a graduating class of around 50 kids. About 10 of those live within a 5 mile radius of me, and I speak to one of them. (2 if you count the guy I married) If I wanted to spend time with the people I graduated with I would find them and do that. They had a 5 year - I didn't go to that, but I heard 6 people showed up and they drank up all the reunion funds at the local bowling alley. Classy.
 
TJ;
Thanks for starting this thread. My class of ’78 is unusual in the fact that for the most part, we all get along. All 199 of us. And for the most part, we always have. So far, we have had 10, 15,20, and 25 year reunions, with #30 coming next year. The turnout has always been good, and it seems like we appreciate each other more as time goes on. Five of us have passed away over the years, recently including the sweetheart that I let get away. This thread has brought back a lot of memories. Thanks again Judy.

Sorry for getting sappy.:barf:

Dave
 
Sheesh, Dave. You didn't get sappy at all. And you're welcome. I hope that your 30th is better than all of the other combined!

Judy
 
Groovy thread :)

I went to my 10 year reunion last summer. In high school, I wasn't terribly involved in any one clique, but was a friendly guy, so I knew people and had friends from all of the different social groups. At the reunion itself, many of the "popular" people showed, as well as those of us who still live in the same town. It wasn't a big turnout - 85 of 450 students - but there were enough to make it interesting.
After the overpriced-yet-underflavored food had been served, we took some pictures and actually started interacting. And I was pleased to find that I felt remarkably comfortable with everyone. In ways, it was just like high school, but there was a twist - many people had actually done some maturing! I found that, due to sufficient similarity in backgrounds (raised in a small town with a good mix of blus & white collar families) we all got along really well. I was actually saddened by the fact that we don't do such a thing each summer. We could all actually be friends.
I'm glad I went to my reunion. Oh yeah, I got to confront the bully who'd terrorized me in high school - he actually remembered me favorably and I was able to make my peace with him :o
 
Trout Tamer said:
I was actually saddened by the fact that we don't do such a thing each summer. We could all actually be friends.
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The Alumni of my high school started having an "all class" reunion every year. It is always the last weekend in July. Starts out on Friday night with whoever wants to showing up at a designated bar. Then on Saturday afternoon there is a picnic in the park. On Saturday night, there is a gathering in the lobby of a large hotel in town that has a bar in the lobby and lots of couches and chairs, so it's again very casual. Most of the guys wear Hawaiian shirts. I don't know why. I guess they just started doing that and more guys do it each year. Could be because we're in a beach town. On Sunday afaternoon, there is a concert in the park for those who are still in town.

Most of the classes now schedule their 10-20-30-40 year reunion on that Saturday night, so that people who drive/fly in from far away can attend the all-class activities.

One guy has a web site that always has the reunion info, plus pictures from previous reunions. He always has a list at the picnic for people to sign up and leave their email address and put what year they graduated. You can go to his site and find a lot of classmates from all the years. People send him the pictures they took, and they are added to a photo section on his site.

Our school was torn down in the 80's - due to declining enrollment in the school district, I think. There are also all kinds of pictures of the demolision of the school on the web site. It's a great all class reunion site.

The construction company to demo'd the school put up a huge sign on the site apologizing to the students for tearing down the school. Hey, they just won the bid, it wasn't their decision.

But that is one way to provide an opportunity for a reunion every year and it doesn't cost anybody money to organize. You buy your own drinks at the bars, bring whatever you want to the picnic. It's cool.

Maybe you could get something like this started for your school.

Judy
 
Walked out on June 12th of 1981 and have never been back. I have no idea who or where most of the kids I went to High school with are. Most of the kids I hung with I am sure are either dead or in Jail. It was a dark and stormy time in my life and I have no desire to ever relive those moments. Four years of hell...I would have rather been in prison.
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
Walked out on June 12th of 1981 and have never been back. I have no idea who or where most of the kids I went to High school with are. Most of the kids I hung with I am sure are either dead or in Jail. It was a dark and stormy time in my life and I have no desire to ever relive those moments. Four years of hell...I would have rather been in prison.
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lol. Ren and I graduated the same year. I'm afraid.

I've only kept in touch with two people that I graduated with, and one of those is my brother.

I wasn't particularly terrorized in school, because I didn't let the bullies get away with that, but I wasn't particularly happy either. And since I didn't much like my classmates (actually, I don't much like people in general), I don't stay in touch.

How people can have fond memories of high school is beyond me. If you didn't go all warped and twisted in high school, you weren't in the process of growing up.

My wife has very fond memories of high school. She was one of the popular people, but from what I can tell she never knew it. She always wants to go to her class reunions.

In order for her to get all warped and twisted, she had to marry me. ;) :D :eek:
 
Trout Tamer said:
Y'know, that's not a bad idea. I wonder how I'd go about setting up such a thing...
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Here's a link to Sam Barr's All Class Reunion web page.

http://www.barrsam.com/AHS.HTM

He's a really nice guy and I'm sure he would be more than happy to give you some good pointers on the do's and don't and how's and why's.

He may be very busy right now since this year's reunion is coming up in 2 weeks. But maybe not. The reunion takes care of itself, I think. At least once people know the routine.

You can tell Sam that Judy Laffoon, Class of 1970, referred you. He may or may not recognize my name. I think Sam was class of '63 or '64.

Judy
 
I checked but there was and is no reunion listed for my graduation class.

Doesn't really matter, I wouldn't go anyway because I'd likely run into my ex-fiance which I am certainly not prepared to do any time soon. Actually there are a couple of ex's I'd run into, ....definetely a bad idea.
 
I'm fortunate to have made a couple of close friends in high school. Twenty years later, and we still phone each other and do things together when time and proximity permit. Talked to them both yesterday, in fact.

One still lives near the town where we went to school, so I'll occasionally get a little news about one or two of our classmates from him. That's plenty. As for the rest of those bozos, if I wanted to see them, I'd have kept in touch in the first place. :D
 
My goodness Totally Judy...You are what we call in our part of the world..."A Looker"

I am trying to find a pic of me at that time but that was when they had to sit still for 5 minutes while they loaded the powder on the flash bar and the photographer hid in a little tent while the powder went off.....lol...I'll try to post this weekend...My grad class had 1039 students and they had a moment of silence for the guys killed in Nam while they rang a bell for each one...It rang 17 times...Kind of a buzz kill for a party but I loved the idea.

At my 40th....yes 40th...They decided to combine classes because a lot of folks died off and they might even have a cruise for the 50th. (only a few years away)

I took my wife to my high school one Saturday and it now looks like a minimum security prison with wrought iron gates and concertina and barbed wire every where..My how times haver changed.
 
Trout Tamer said:
Emanuel, no wonder you're hidin' out in the bush down under :p :D
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Funny enough, it is one of the reasons I live out here in the sticks now!:D
At the very least it's one of the reasons why I moved away from my last place (ex's parents moved in right across the street, ...creeped me out).
 
I haven't gone to any of my class reunions, either (class of '72...Go, Bobcats!), but I still see some of my OLD high-school classmates at the local college that I work at, and that's good-enough for me.
 
I was a three sport student-athlete who graduated at the top of his class. I didn't have any bulliies but I remember High School being a boring, tiring, and lonely place. Four of my classmates, I had gone from kindergarten to senior year. I've seen those suckers enough. Not to mention we all exceled in apathy, we didn't even have a 10 year.

My hair looked like Ken's. :eek:
 
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