High School Reunion - Page 4

At my HS they handed out cards that you could fill out with any contact information so that an invitation could be sent in the future. I threw it directly in the garbage. I didn't even buy a yearbook.

coho graduated from HS?

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Some guys are getting together for our 20th but i have to put the past to bed despite the good times back then.Grown men reminiscing about their teenage years doesn't appeal to me.

I graduated with a class of about 700, but I was friendly with a very large number of those people. Thus I'm looking forward to my first reunion. When is (generally) the first one? 10 yrs?

wtf... 700? I graduated with like 40... TOPS.

Did you go to somewhere in the projects?

Heavens no. My wealthy little suburb just has a lot of people.

Such large classes are more common than one would think.

I graduated with 350+ and that was only large for the time and location. Now they've simply built two or three more high schools in the area. If not, the graduating classes would be nearing 1000.

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10-year reunion - attended alone as I was single at the time. On Saturday night after the formal dinner and dance, I ended up inviting a bunch of people back to the condo with my roommate (also from the same class) where we all sat up, drank more beer and wine and reminisced until about 4:00 a.m. 20-year reunion - went with my wife and my (then) 2-year-old son. Everyones kids played together at the family get-together on Saturday afternoon. Had fun at the dinner/dance on Saturday night but was back at my parent's house in bed by midnight. As stated previously, reunions are about catching up with people you don't see on a regular basis. Even if you absolutely hated high school, it's fun to see how people have changed, or not, and it's only one weekend every 10-years or so.

I had a very interesting weekend. a little background, I went to a school in a little village outside of new york city for a year in 7th grade. didn't keep in touch with anybody, it was a nice enough expereince, but not a major part of my life.

6 years ago, I moved back to that village, when I left Israel. I got a job not far from there, and had to decide where to live, and that was pretty easy. ran into one person who was in school with me, had a short conversation, and then never thought about it again. anyway, got on a mailing list of the high school graduating class, and started to "facebook friend" some people over the years. saw one of them, who was actually a pretty good friend, when I went through his city a while back, and that was cool.

4 years ago we moved out to chicago.

so, anyway, I was invited to the 25th reunion this weekend. I figured that it would be a good opportunity for my wife and I to go for the weekend to NYC, and also to see some of my wife's friends in the village we lived for 2 years. and, I have enough airline and hotel points that I don't really pay for this stuff - effectivly all we paid for was meals and the reunion itself.

it was very interesting - first, I had pretty much zero emotional baggage - I had been friendly enough with people, not very popular, but not a freak, either. the 8 or so friends that I had had were sort of smart, not very athletic not very nerdy people - they went on to be the class president, the head of the debate and newpaper, activie in the school theatre. not total freaks, not the cheerleaders or football players. nobody had been mean to me, I hadn't gotten into too many fights, no girl had broken my heart, so really there was no emotional baggage, and I guess that isn't the type of thing that happens with most of these things.

my expectations would be that I would have about 10 or a dozen interesting catch up conversations - and that is what happened. of the 375 class members, only 2 are what I would consider successful, and I guess that is about right. of the 40 or so women who showed up, only 4 were even remotly attractive - 43 is a rough age, I guess. even the hottest girls had really deteriorated. a couple of guys had done some interesting things, not terribly successful, but intersting - one of my old friends graduated from the CIA (cullinary, not central intel) and was now a food salesman after having been a chief. one is an off braodway director. one was a navy cargo pilot.

almost all of the people who really showed academic promise hadn't really fufullied that promise. none of the really popular kids had done very well for themselves, as far as I could see.

I had one really great conversation - I had a friend who was sort of pudgy and a bit of a meathead. not the brightest guy, but a very nice guy. he looked great - now he is very slim, and he looked 10 years younger than anybody else in the room. I really was happy for him. also, talked with him and his life seems really on line and doing well, and his philisophy towards raising his kids sounds great.


a little bonus - we had lived in this very nice little village, very quaint, and we took a day to walk around town and realized that where we live now is really a huge improvement over where we lived then, which was great closure for my wife.

all in all, a very interesting weekend.

I've got my ten-year high school reunion coming up. I think it's going to be awkward. I was well-known in high school, mostly for academics and being a very vocal newspaper editor, but I never one of the cool kids and I shifted my social circles a few times. By the time I graduated, my group of friends was completely different from the one I started out with as a freshman. So, there are tons of people I remember and with whom I was a friendly acquaintance, but very few whom I'd have much to reminisce about other than those I keep in touch with anyway.

So, I would have preferred a more structured, organized event. I'd rather play stupid games, like guessing who's doing what, than have two hours to do nothing but drink and mingle. However, by the looks of it, it's going to be exactly that. We did the same for our five-year reunion, and it was awful. An hour in, everyone was drunk and trying to hook up with each other.

I am looking forward to my 10 year.

Last weekend I met up with an old friend I hadn't seen in over 7 years (since graduation) and it was great catching up with her.

My 10-year reunion featured a bloody fistfight, a 70 mph hit-and-run auto accident and a quite impressive drug bust! Fun times.