Did you ever look up your long lost high school classmates?

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I graduated in 1964, from a tiny Catholic school. We had 23 kids in my graduating class. I moved away from there well over 50 years ago. I decided to look up my classmates. I started with the boys, ( their names were the same as in H.S.)There were 8 of us. I'm 76, and 5 had passed on. Yikes. I got sick and landed in a home, so my task of looking up my classmates came to an end, But have you tried to look up your high school classmates? How did you do it? You can look up the boys, but how about Susie Smith , who is now, Mrs. X?
 

No I havenā€™t looked up any classmates but I hung out with many of them after school ended. We hung out together as a big group and went to many concerts and parties together. Once I met my husband and moved to the country and didnā€™t see as many of them but a couple of years ago I reunited with a bunch of them from the stage band we were all in. It was really fun to see them again.
 
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I tried to look up a few years ago but gave up. Finding the girls was next to impossible because their names have been changed. I realized the ones I really cared about where people I still kept in touch with., many have passed on but I do have one left from my first year in high school.
 

Only a few I knew well or was related to. I was in a class of over 400 kids and the only time I so* many of my classmates again was at our 50th reunion in 2000. By then, a lot had passed away or moved too far to join us. But a good turnout anyhow.

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As said above, it's hard to look up females since their last names could well be different. I did though try looking up some of the male classmates--I used linkedin.com--who were the popular guys back in high school and it turned out like I suspected it would: they had all done well for themselves--well, probably using daddy's $$--corporate lawyers, CEOs, etc.
 
No, I don't, because they are all on the East Coast. Funny story-my late wife went to school in Pittsburgh, and they were holding a 50th reunion. They also had a small alumni group here on the West Coast. We discussed going back to the reunion, but 90% of the people still lived in Pittsburgh, so it was no problem for them to go.
I said that you did not care to even see the group on the West Coast, so what is the sense of going back there.
 
Murrmurr said:
I went to a website called classmates.com. I found 2 former classmates who were pretty good friends of mine, but I also got a boat-load of emails from the website urging me to pay the monthly fee that would allow me to message those friends.
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LOL I keep getting emails from them. Periodically they will show a name or 2 and say..do you remember .... some of the names I remember and others I have not heard of, even among the guys. Recently they sent names of 2 people that I know have died asking if I remembered them as 'friendly, attractive' etc. Both were friends of mine. The site always asks for a fee to reveal names and I have considered paying but have not as yet...
 
jujube said:
For a large number of them, I'd have to be looking at the obits. I get an alarming number of death notifications from our class historian. I'm always afraid I'm next......
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Hope it's ok your comment struck me as funny ...hope you meant it to. I know what you mean. It seems the older we get the more people of 'our time' are dying..not just classmates but stars, politicians etc...
 
I've had to through the years. Was senior class president and it is tradition at our school for that to be a lifetime job when it comes to organizing class reunions. I bailed on the job after the 25th reunion but still know pretty much where everyone is thanks to social media.
 
One of my old high school classmates keeps a list of the remaining classmates, and updates the rest of us every couple of months. Through her posts, I've been able to keep track of the "survivors", and exchange notes with a half dozen of the old crew. However, the numbers of those left are declining more with every passing year....at last count there are about 250 of us left....out of a starting number of almost 600....kind of depressing sometimes.
 
Went to visit a friend in San Diego a few years back that I knew from grade school/girl scouts/ballet. Also had a chance to spend an evening with another long-time friend (known since kindergarten); we processed 40 years of catching up in one evening! =)
 
Our alumni of 1957 held a reunion in 1997. I didn't go. Schooldays were not happy days but I did have a stroke of good fortune that came out of misfortune. In January 1961, I was knocked down by a, hit and run motorist whilst on a pedestrian crossing. Recovery took almost a year, during that time I was sent to a special type of hospital where they had the kind of equipment to aid that recovery. One of the teachers, a head of department, would read up on my classwork and then visit me, teaching me, one to one. My school offered me a return but I would have to drop a year to catch up. Catch up? Thanks to that one to one teaching I was ahead if anything. I left school and finished my higher education at college.

Learn from the past but don't look back. I have never wanted to look up lost friends, including schoolfriends and definitely not girlfriends.
 
I registered with classmates.com eons ago...a couple years ago I got an email that someone had looked at my profile. I logged in and discovered that it was my 10th grade high school girlfriend. I stayed in touch with her on Facebook, I kept my distance as I am married and she was single. You know what I mean. I had some feelings stirred, but decided that they were unhealthy and unmanageable.
 
A classmate found me on Facebook and added me to the group for our classmates. We also graduated in 1964 but I'm a couple of years younger than you. I thought it was amazing since I didn't remember her from school and my name had completely changed because I took a Muslim name. I wound up connecting with a lot of former classmates via the group as well as individually on FB. We had over 700 (yes seven hundred) people in our class and we've maybe lost 10% of them as far as we know. The woman who found me started a listing of deceased members and sadly a couple of years ago, we had to add her to the list. When we find out about someone's passing we post their obit and their name gets added to that list.

One former classmate was one of my BFFs when I was in high school. I got her number from her son who was on FB and called. We didn't stay in touch though. Someone in the group gave me information about my other high school BFF but I never followed up. Another classmate used to message me and he'd call periodically, saying we (Boomers) had to keep up with each other. He was a gregarious fellow. He called me Oct 2nd for a brief chat, posted on FB Oct 5th and died later that day! :cry:

Another classmate and I lived in the same neighborhood and worked together for decades. Though we were somewhat adversarial at work sometimes we were still friends and became the best of friends after we retired. We spoke on the phone often. My husband never minded me having phone conversations with him I guess because our friend (they were army buddies) introduced us and tried for years to get us together. My friend also helped me find my half siblings. He died a little more than a year ago and I still can't believe he's gone. I miss him so much :cry:

It's too bad you had to discontinue your search due to your circumstances. It's also sad that you lost so many.
 
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Class of 1964. Approx 45 kids, 12 of which have now passed. I refuse to pay Classmates.com a penny but I did register so I get the same annoying emails.

My SO and I went to first three grades together, then high school. Knew each other, but never dated. Reconnected 50+ years later on Facebook.
 
A lot of mine looked me up after Facebook got popular. I have never actively looked up many. I did look up a couple college classmates...One I reconnected with and we have stayed friends ever since...and we graduated in the 80's (I started college in my later 20's). The other classmate seems to have fallen from the face of the earth. Seems to have no social media presence
 

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