Well that makes sense too.

 

Any special reason? Did you not have fun, or do you just have better things to do, and more fun people to spend time with, like Rick and me.

 

At the 10th reunion, people were still trying to prove themselves, the 20th was better as people were more settled and much of the one upmanship (is that a word) seemed to be gone. I did have a good time,I sat at a table of mostly women who had gone alone, which was OK, we had a lot of laughs, but still there were small groups that didn't even mingle. I did, as I brought a . I remember thinking I'd probably not bother with any more reunions. It's really just a bit of catching up and a yack session....then we go our separate ways again.

 

I have helped organize and attended most of mine, and have the BIG 5-0 coming up in 2014. I started a FB page and have about 20 in the group posting comments; focusing on a date in October; but no one local (we are 100 miles away) has stepped up to form a committee. It's a little more fun for us b/c both Kathy and I were in the same HS school/graduation year. Yeah, I know that she looks 10 years younger than me....

Assuming that something is set up in Harrisburg (fun capital of Peeay?), we will attend....but this may be the last one for us....dunno. We already DO see most of our best HS friends at least once a year....with our little cohort that has gone to Florida, Oregon, DC, Gettysburg and Italy together....so maybe we should just skip the others?

Guess that the advice of "what do you have to lose?" is best....I would give it a shot. After all, it sounds like some others are doing all the work....and it IS work to get everything organized (been there/ done that)

 

Actually not too far from the truth. I started varsity athletics as a freshman in basketball season. I was always closer to the class ahead of me than the one with which I graduated. I've often wondered who resented whom more. They did vote me "Best Looking" in the yearbook superlatives but then again you'd have to look through the rest of the class.

The class of '75 has always asked me back for their reunions.

As an added bonus the drinking age at the time was 18 and the '75 class had a new member about every month.

 

Yeah, my HS class had jocks, dopers and prepies. I only drank, but I hung out with the dopers more than any other group, but as they got deeper into dope I bailed on that as well. I started working when I was a freshman so I didn't really hang out at the school or do any after school stuff, except riflery one year. The people I knew best were from my neighborhood and most of them were a year ahead of me. So I didn't really have a lot of connections to my graduating class. Like i said, I have gone to a couple or three reunions. It was good to see some of the people, but like anything else, you never know who is going to show up and who isn't. So if there are 10 people I'd like to see out of a class of 635, there is a pretty good chance none of them will be there. That is what happened last time I went, so I haven't been back.

 

That's the issue with mine. We are spread all over the world. DC was/is a very transient area. About 1/3 (100 or so) showed up for the 20th. That was the last time many made it. One of my good friends here was in my class. She moved away and then came back to the area. But she's the only one I keep in touch with. I think most of the reunions recently have been for multiple classes, but I haven't gone. As LB said, anyone I wanted to see would most likely not be there. I did have a private reunion with my high-school sweetheart awhile back in MT (pre +1).

 

That puts you ahead of me. I don't even know if the class I was in has reunions. I've never heard a word from anyone in all these years. I don't remember much about high school, actually. I do recall that I was voted "Student Most Likely To Face A Firing Squad" in my junior or senior year, along with being suspended quite a few times, but that's about it. It's probably for the best.

 

My high school graduating class was very big (about 2,000 kids) but I wasn't very popular and didn't have very many friends. Many acquaintances but not many real close friends. Once we all went to college I didn't see many of them again. I've never been to a reunion, and after all of these years I have no desire to go. What could I possibly have to say to any of my classmates after 45 years?

A few years ago I connected with about a dozen of my classmates on Facebook. After the first e-mail to each other and a promise to keep in touch, I haven't heard a word from any of them.

My younger sister, 4 years behind me, went to the same high school, was very popular, had many friends and has managed to remain friendly with about a dozen of them. About 10 years ago she went to her class reunion and sat with the friends that she's stayed in touch with. She had a really good time, but only because she was able to spend the evening with those women with whom she's still friendly.

Still, I happen to agree with Patty. You had a good time at your reunion, what do you have to lose?

 

Appreciate all the comments. Part of me says if I wanted to stay in touch with these people I'd find them on Face Book. The other part says, what the heck, I can go, and I can leave if I'm not having a good time. Our school was small, I knew the name of everyone in my class, and most of us came from the same type of Catholic families, hard working, mostly blue collar. Many had lots of kids like my family, we had six. Like most schools we had small groups of kids who stuck together, a few drinkers, and a few into drugs, but they were definitely the minority. One of my sisters is like Rob's and has stayed in touch and socializes with a few classmates on a regular basis. I never did that, maybe that's why I'm waffling here.

I do have pictures of my grandkids to show around, maybe that's a reason in itself to go to a HS reunion? I also have an iphone and I can drive up in an S2000. That makes me one of the cool kids for sure.