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Anyone Going to Their High School Class Reunion Soon?

Leeny — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 01:24:01 GMT

My 45th reunion is this weekend and I am going. My DH is not interested in going so my best girlfriend for over 50 years are going together. It's a casual get together. I came from a huge class of almost 600. I've only went to one reunion and that was my 25th. I am glad this is a casual dress affair. I bought new capris and a top and I am getting my hair done. PlusI am going to wear my QVC jewelry Is there anyone else having a reunion coming up?

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twinny70 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 01:54:27 GMT

Leeny, can you give me a hint to where you live? I live in WI & my 50th class reunion is in October. It is casual Friday & Saturday nights. I keep changing my outfit as it is hot now, but who knows what it will be like in October.

My class had 188 students. DH had his 50th class reunion last year. We went to the same HS & there were 240 students in his class.

Hope that you have a great time.

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DiAnne — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:11:50 GMT

I have never been to a class reunion. We moved a lot when I was a child (all over Southern California) so I do not have any longtime childhood friends. I now live in a different state.

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Moonchilde — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:23:58 GMT

My 50th is coming up. I never went to the others because our class was 650+ and the people I hung out with (small group) were not the type to attend reunions. We weren't the popular kids, nothing special about any of us. I intermittently checked the commercial reunion site over the years and no one I wanted to see was ever down as going, so really I have no interest.

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Leeny — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:29:06 GMT

@twinny70 wrote:
Leeny, can you give me a hint to where you live? I live in WI & my 50th class reunion is in October. It is casual Friday & Saturday nights. I keep changing my outfit as it is hot now, but who knows what it will be like in October.

My class had 188 students. DH had his 50th class reunion last year. We went to the same HS & there were 240 students in his class.

Hope that you have a great time.

I also live in Wisconsin. It's going to be hot so that's why I am glad its going to be a casual get together. I hope it's fun. There are some of the kids I'd like to see. We too had our "clicks". I wasn't in that bunch. lol

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Bird mama — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:36:32 GMT

I hated the high school I went to, so I never went to a reunion. I did go to my husbands 40th reunion, the year I turned 40, rofl. Yea, I got some looks that night.

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vickie25 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:47:18 GMT

I am attending my 40th HS Reunion in September. It will be the first one I've been able to go to. We had a really big class, about 900, as the new HS wasn't going to open until the following year. Looking forward to it. Have reconnected with a few people. After I graduated, my family moved about 1,000 miles away so I haven't seen any of my classmates. Trying to drop some more weight but running out of calendar. lol

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Sooner — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 02:54:05 GMT

Been out 40 years and my class never had one. I feel so lucky! LOL!!!

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Mustang Shar — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 03:03:07 GMT

My 45th is this Saturday also. I'm going!

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proudlyfromNJ — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 04:10:58 GMT

No, my 50th was last year. They kind of combine a lot of them as our classes were small. Had only 100 in my graduating class. I have not lived in my hometown since I was 17. I don't think I have ever thought about going since I have left the area.

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ID2 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 10:50:17 GMT

Nope, when I graduated high school that was the last time I ever saw any of those kids!

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LTT1 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 11:25:15 GMT

@twinny70

We are going to DHs 50th in November!

There is a FB group devoted to this and he is enjoying re-connecting! However, I have not gotten an answer to my question, "what are we supposed to wear!'

(Isn't that just like a man?") LOL

@Bird mama

What an enviable position you were in! 🤗

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151949 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:23:00 GMT

Those old friends from high school I care to keep in touch with I already do so. Otherwise - my class had over 900 kids in it and most of them were strangers to me, so I have no desire to go to a reunion.

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CANDLEQUEEN — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:32:35 GMT

Next year will be my 40th and I will probably go, as I went to tmy 25th and had a great time./....There were only about 200 that showewd up from my class which was probably 400 or so, but it was still fun to see people and see how they have changed and what they have been doing....My husband went to his 25th and said never again......My older sister went to her 25th and said never again also. I think to each their own, some people enjoy going and some do not......My younger sister just went last year to her 35th and had a blast, it was in a remodeled Barn and she said it was so much fun and very casual, which I think is easier than being all dressy and formal.Have fun to those who are going!

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care04 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:39:13 GMT

Going to my class reunions has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. Our class was big - over 500 students. I was, by no means popular. I tried out for the Pom Pon squad (now known as the Dance Team) EVERY year from grades 7-12, and NEVER made the squad! Oh, I soooo wanted that, so I just kept trying, even though I was never picked.😩

Having said that, I had a decent group of friends in high school, and enjoyed HS very much. Ironically, none of my HS friends attend the reunions! I have connected with so many classmates that were in different social groups than me, and we all get along great.

You know, life has no cliques, and all of us had many ups and downs since the safety of high school. We bond by those ups and downs, regardless of the social group we identified with in HS.

Go to that HS reunion! You'll be surprised by how many people will say the kindest things to you, how many remember something you did, and how lucky you are to live long enough to celebrate double-digit class reunions.

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CANDLEQUEEN — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:41:57 GMT

P.S. I am in Wisconsin too!

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wagirl — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:38:34 GMT

No ------I don't get any notices about any of the class of 1972 reunions. I went to my tenth reunion and that was enough for me. I don't have any desire to go. No one there I want to see and I haven't seen any of them since the 10th one. High school was not a good time for me.

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CatsyCline — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:02:51 GMT

@care04 wrote:
Going to my class reunions has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. Our class was big - over 500 students. I was, by no means popular. I tried out for the Pom Pon squad (now known as the Dance Team) EVERY year from grades 7-12, and NEVER made the squad! Oh, I soooo wanted that, so I just kept trying, even though I was never picked.😩

Having said that, I had a decent group of friends in high school, and enjoyed HS very much. Ironically, none of my HS friends attend the reunions! I have connected with so many classmates that were in different social groups than me, and we all get along great.

You know, life has no cliques, and all of us had many ups and downs since the safety of high school. We bond by those ups and downs, regardless of the social group we identified with in HS.

Go to that HS reunion! You'll be surprised by how many people will say the kindest things to you, how many remember something you did, and how lucky you are to live long enough to celebrate double-digit class reunions.

Great post! its so true....life has no cliques. i attended my 20th reunion and it was the best! i had a small class of maybe 120 kids and there were defined cliques in my HS. plus, my senior year, i attended a voke in another town. so i lost touch with some kids. the first night was a cocktail party, the second night we had a dinner cruise and went to a bar after where we danced and sang kareoke. the years melted away, life had softened those hard lines. it was a wonderful time. i was single and most were married, but that was ok too, seeing who people marrried, some were HS sweethearts.

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violann — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:59:21 GMT

I wasn't invited to mine. Kinda hurt my feelings at the time.

I later learned that the whole thing had been set up on FaceBook, and that some of my old friends had wondered why I wasn't there.

Hope there will be another............

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Puzzle Piece — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:27:40 GMT

No. I've never been to one high school reunion. There's a saying that goes - Those who attend high school reunions are those that never left.

I kept up with those I cared about. We were a very large graduating class and the times were tumultuous. Boys and girls were outing themselves, some were overdosing, others just wanted to take their own life, others went on to college/universities, some married, others left for other states and countries, others have since died. Yet there were others that were never seen or heard from again. I hear that the reunions are combined years now from the lack of enthusiasm and interest. Guess it all depends on your interest in things like that.