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45 high school class reunion
Went to my reunion last night.
It was fun seeing a lot of folks who I have gotten to be good friends with over the years who I was not close to in High School. None of my truly close friends from high school or jr high were there. I have asked the organizer for a contact list and I plan to lobby my closest friends to come next time. I live an hour and a half drive away from my hometown. The folks who live there can go home at any hour safely and the folks from far away if they come get rooms so I am sort of in a nether land. If I can get some of my closer friends to come next time I pledge to get a room. One of my class mates has a band and they came and started playing very loud music about 8 pm so any hope for conversation after that was tough except at intermission. Home by 11, no hangover this morning.
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You graduate from high school in 1945?
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Tom,
I too live an hour and a half, closer to two from my High School city. I got a call this past week from a classmate who was calling to tell me the reunion will be at the hotel next to The Ballpark in Arlington, Ocober 26. This will also be my 45th. We have only had them every 10 years, so I'm glad that we didn't wait for the 50. There will probably be fewer less of us alive by the 50th. How many were in your class? There were 480 in mine.
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Class of 67.
We had 173 in ours IIRC. Due to the format we did not really get much information about who has died off since the last reunion..... but a few looked as if they will be lucky to make another five years! One fellow who looks pretty youthful I heard has had three heart attacks in the last year or so. yikes! The two best athletes from our class were there and both looked pretty fit. The one fellow is probably about the same weight as high school but hair is white. He still holds the one season record for scoring in basket ball and in 67 there was no 3 point shot. He went to university of Washington in Seattle on full scholarship. he said one game when he was a freshman there he got hot and scored 52 points....still no three point shots. Being about 5'-9 and 150# many of them would have been three pointers. I doubt many school records in bball scoring remain from before the 3 point shot. perhaps Lebanon IN (home of Rick Mount). The other fellow still holds the single season record for rushing in football. He looks to be near the same weight in high school as well. He was also very strong in Track, long jumped over 24' and could have defeated many of our typical opponents by himself, probably. Still, a good time. The gals all wanted to trim my eyebrows (I sort of resemble the Wizard of OZ in the in the eyebrow department). My Mrs. told them we just trimmed them!
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Neat thing about these reunions is knowing everyone is the same age...and then the amazement at seeing how some have aged poorly and others are instantly recognizable.
The two most recognizable guys from my class were two of the most successful. One is a successful oral surgeon of some renown; the other rose to the rank of US Army Major General. (I wonder if there's a connection between the two?) My 50th is next year . I am looking forward to it. |
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Supporting your theory one of my classmates who is quite recognizable was a fighter pilot and then the General of the Air Force, before getting fired because one of his people got caught up in corruption that is.
Flying in the face of your theory, however, is me. I'm probably in as good health and physical condition as anyone in my class, if not more than anyone in my class, and I haven't been a doctor OR a general.
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the best thing about reunions is hooking up with the new divorcees....
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I suppose so, if you happen to be single yourself. Probably the most interesting thing for me was at my 30th reunion. Remember I was in a class of 480. Furthermore I was only in high school there for the last year and a half. I had been in that town in my preschool years and fourth and fifth grade so I knew a few people I graduated with from those years, but for the most part I just didn't know a whole lot of the classmates. One of the absolute top five or ten best looking girls of the class started talking to me at length. I had never had any classes with her. She told me about things I did at dances and about a couple of noteworthy things I did when playing baseball. We went to the final round of the state baseball championship, so there was lots of following of the games. When I was in high school I didn't even think she knew that I existed on the face of the Earth, but from this conversation it was clear that she would have gone out with me if I had asked her. What a waste!
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At my 40th, one of the nicest looking women in the room comes up to me and says hello. I look blankly at her, not recognizing her and wait for her to introduce herself. (She wasn't wearing an ID tag). So, she finally says" Don't you remember me? I'm Dianne XXX. I was your date at your Senior Prom." Her husband was a classmate of mine; she was a year behind. Saw them at the 45th. Guy looked fantastic, was a NYC Detective. |
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Famous Alumni from your High School.?
Mine. Bobby Thomson. (he of Polo Grounds fame) Jeb Magruder (he of Watergate shame) Amy Vanderbilt. (She of etiquette) and Two MOH recipients: Joseph F. Merrell Jr. WW2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F._Merrell_Jr. Fr. Vincent R. Capodanno USN VN Vincent Robert Capodanno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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I haven't been to one yet, my 25th will be next year. I'm not sure if I'll go to that one or not. I've heard once you get past the 25th or so, it's less about flaunting and competition and more about getting together and reminiscing.
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That's true, but the early year ones are fun too. You just need to go there with an attitude that you're going to reminisce and have fun. My tenth and twentieth were more about showing up in a fancy car, dressed to the nines. I just didn't participate in that crap. My wife and I showed up in casual clothes and started visiting. For me, showing off my wife was a good enough "I've been more successful than you" statement anyway. Just go, lighten up and when they start telling you how successful they are, just don't acknowledge it and ask if they remember the time when...., even if you've been more successful than them. Don't cheat yourself out of the chance to see your old classmates.
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Yes Swamp, I think you will find it quite interesting to chat with people that you haven't seen in that length of time. If you haven't been to ANY of them, seeing how the lookers got fat and the wall flowers staid thin will make the trip worthwhile.
I went to my wifes 40th with her a few years ago. A close friend of hers met us there and stayed at the table with us. This girl had an unbelievably great size and shape when young, but was EXTREMELY plain looking in the face, and I'm being kind using those words. Guess what? Now she has the very same size & shape. It was a real hoot seeing how the guys from her class reacted. She was the belle of the ball. Don't miss it. You'll enjoy yourself. BTW, I have not considered myself unsuccessful at any of my reunions, but those that tried to play up their success really irked me. If the truth were known, they were probably in a rented suit.
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