Who has been to a High School reunion?

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There were only 23 kids in my graduating class. I came from a small Massachusetts town. It wasn't until I got to college that I didn't have a cousin in my class. But class reunions came and went, and I didn't attend. Strangely, at all of them, no boys attended. Have you ever attended a class reunion?
 

I haven't. I was from a small school too. I think there were just over 70 in my graduating class. No one was very nice, and I suppose I would be considered a drama nerd. I liked drama, plays and speech contests, so I was picked on for that. Anyway, I had no desire to go.
 
I attended my 50th. Out of 35 about half attended. It was amazing to see how quickly we fell back into our old relationships with each other. All in all, It was a good experience but I feel no desire to attend another. Who wants to hang with a bunch of old people:giggle:
 
Marie5656 said:
My last was in 2012. 40 years. I had only been to a couple before that. I was kind of low on the social totem pole in school, did not have a lot of close friends. But, when you go to a reunion it is like everyone was your best friend.
Have no intentions of going to another
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Me too.

I got along with everyone but was never on the A list, not much has changed! :)
 
While planning the 40th a group of twenty of us created our own A list and have been in close contact ever since. I love my group - we email about this and that almost every day. We're a tremendous support system to one another and have walked together through losing a member through death, various parent and spouse deaths, challenges with children, grandchildren, spouses and exes, severe illnesses, etc. One member is transgender, several are divorced, some widowed, some married, some single.

It's a lot like SF but we knew each other (or of each other) back when we were young. No cyber hiding. Only a couple of the people were close friends back in HS. Most of us barely knew each other then, but we've sure become close in the meantime. Mini reunions, a few vacations together, staying at each other's houses, etc. We meet up whenever possible and however many of us can get there we make an effort to do so.

HS kids are much better when you add 40-50 years.
 
I went to our 45th and the only person I recognized right off the bat was our old chemistry teacher and he looked younger that most of the students. We had about 100 people there out of a class of nearly 700 students. I finally found one guy who had been a friend when we were students. Like me he wound up as a engineer.
I was definitely not on the A list. But with the passage of time it is surprising which people had the better careers and marriages. Most of the people who were "hot" stuff kind of dropped off the radar. It seems that the things they did in HS were the high points in their lives and that troubled me. Us funny little guys who were lousy at sports but enjoyed math and science got it right. (And we wound up with the best ladies to boot.) That was my first and last reunion.
 
I attended a high school reunion. I was embarrased.

I was the only guy from our class that showed up at the opening ceremonies.

I talked to one of my classmates later and asked him why he didn't come.

He said "Why should I show up". "I hated school".
 
I organized a reunion with seven of my closest friends from elementary school, in the year we turned fifty. Some of my old buddies I hadn't seen in thirty years. It was pure magic. I had imagined looking up in the rear-view mirror of the large passenger van I rented, and seeing the faces of my old friends. The realization was unbelievably cool.

Unfortunately, magic was not in the air for the second and third time we got together, two and four years after that first reunion. Sadly, I withdrew from the event I had started. As far as I know, they got together one more time, and that was it.
 
I didn't go to any of my reunions ,but I went to 2 of my husbands, his 30th and 40th. I went to an all girl High school and remained friendly with a lot of the girls I was in High School with. My Husband went to an all boys High School and since we met when I was only 15yrs old I knew a lot of the boys he went to school with so I enjoyed those reunions.
 
Went to my tenth because a friend talked me into it. It was a complete waste of time. I hated high school and reunions are meaningless to me.
 
I’ve never been interested in returning, it was a very clique environment and I’m not one for cliques. I like to include everybody.
 
I attended three of my high school reunions. It was a Episcopalian girls school and there were 67 of us in my senior class. I recently attended our 50th reunion. Around 20 attended with one husband. It was really nice because it was a luncheon in Waikiki where everyone wore a pin with their senior picture on it. That really helped in us identifying who was who. :cool:
 
@Trade

What about that bully you talked about - did you confront him?

My class was large 450+, I went to the 10th (disco!:D) - it was fun.
Also the 20th. I was gonna go to the 30th but got sick.
I used to order the booklet that listed who was doing what and where they lived.
Last year I looked online and found the Class website. It was interesting. Quite a few deaths for which they had an In Memoriam section.
 

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