Anyone have any thoughts on attending a High School reunion
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If you go, review your yearbook beforehand so you will recognize & remember more folks.
We had a class of about 900. Went to 10 year, it was fun. 30 year, a waste of time--very few people I recognized or remembered (should have looked at that yearbook). Big classes, you find out interesting things. One of my classmates was on the USS Pueblo when the North Koreans captured it on the high seas & kept the crew prisoner for quite awhile. A gal I knew since elementary school ran a foundation giving aid to groups in 3rd world countries. Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Bobby Kennedy was a year or two behind us & I kind of knew him, was never mentioned.
Smaller graduating classes would be more fun, I think.
We had a class of about 900. Went to 10 year, it was fun. 30 year, a waste of time--very few people I recognized or remembered (should have looked at that yearbook). Big classes, you find out interesting things. One of my classmates was on the USS Pueblo when the North Koreans captured it on the high seas & kept the crew prisoner for quite awhile. A gal I knew since elementary school ran a foundation giving aid to groups in 3rd world countries. Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Bobby Kennedy was a year or two behind us & I kind of knew him, was never mentioned.
Smaller graduating classes would be more fun, I think.
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There were 48 kids in my graduating class and we have a reunion every 5 years. I went to every one of them through the 30th. By the 35th year 3 of my best buddies had died so I figured it was a good time to stop going to them.
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It sorta seems you guys with huge graduating classes have less interest than some of us with small classes (32 here). I don't keep up with a lot of these folks in normal life, but it was fun to see them again at the 20th and 40th. Some of them looked pretty good, some of them looked pretty bad, and some of them were dead. I don't remember any bragging about career's or anyone feeling bad about how well they did in life. Overall, I remember it as a positive, pleasant event.
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On a whim, I went to my 40th reunion in 2005. I had left the place in 1967, and hadn't been back since, so it was fun to go back and see the old neighborhood. Lots had changed in the subsequent 38 years. Nor had I seen anyone from school since then. As others have stated, some looked good, some looked bad, quite a few had died. Overall, I thought it was a rewarding experience. Would I go again? Probably.
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Me three! Maybe we were in the same class.......:number1:
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Heck no,have not been to one in 35 years.I was even on the 1st string starting football team.LOL
I haven't heard anything as of yet but I assume my 10 year will be coming up in 2014. (I'm a lot younger than most here, obviously)
I just don't think I'll be going. Most of the people I cared about while in school were a year or two older and/or from another school. I had a few friends at my school who were younger and very few from my class, so most of them wouldn't be there anyway.
Like a couple others have mentioned, if I want to see anyone all it takes is a few phone calls and we can be having a cook out or camp fire on the farm in a weeks time. I have had the same cell phone number since 2002 and I'm still on the farm I grew up on, so if they wanted to find me it wouldn't be too hard either.
I just don't think I'll be going. Most of the people I cared about while in school were a year or two older and/or from another school. I had a few friends at my school who were younger and very few from my class, so most of them wouldn't be there anyway.
Like a couple others have mentioned, if I want to see anyone all it takes is a few phone calls and we can be having a cook out or camp fire on the farm in a weeks time. I have had the same cell phone number since 2002 and I'm still on the farm I grew up on, so if they wanted to find me it wouldn't be too hard either.
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When you get to be 29, you can join the TBN 29er Club. There are at least three members so far. :thumbsup::laughing::laughing::laughing:
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Dan
