Holy Cow!!! 55th high school reunion

[Muss Muggins]

Well, I was middle class in a wealthy town. I went to school with very entitled and judgmental people. A sample conversation from my 10 year went like this:
I was approached by a former classmate. Parents were both doctors 3 story house had 2, yes 2, 1963 Corvettes under cover and on dollies in the garage. Just to give you an idea.
Classmate: What do you do? (Seriously. Those were the first words he had spoken to me since graduation.)
Me: I drive a forklift for a glass company.
Classmate: Oh. I own a used car lot in Arizona.
Then he turned and walked away.
I find I am a much happier person the farther I stay away from people like that. Missing the reunions? Small price to pay and worth every penny.

Pretty sure I know why you don't get invited . . .

 

[robvious]

It was reunion weekend at my high school... for those that ended in 5 or 0 there was formal stuff... I just went to the alumni car show... it is usually a nice small show with 80 to 100 cars... rainy weekend predicted and they only had 37 cars... oh well, still had fun for about an hour.. only one classmate was there...

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

My 50th-and first- in 2017. 80-100 people out of class of 400. Didn't see anybody I didn't want to see, the In Memoriam book contained about 20-25% of the class, included one on my Black List and a few I'd like to have seen again, and several of the "stars"-Ivy League schools, e.g. Yes, several girls I remember as cupcakes...

 

[Greyman50]

Well just talked to 2 old friends, one retired St Police investigator the other retired Sgt. of local PD. We are meeting tomorrow for real NC barbecue in Moyock. One told me there are 5 traffic lights in Moyock now. Seeing how everything else has changed so much around here guess it was just a matter of time. Remember back in the day NC sold beer to 18 year olds and I would get the $$$ go down to Moyock and buy it for everybody up here, lol

 

[glenwolde]

Last year was my 50th but I had no reason to want to wax nostalgic about one of the most messed up experiences my life. Bah.

 

[VaTom]

Went to my 50th in 2021 and then our class gave ourselves a 71st birthday party last summer at the VFW hall as we all turned 71 and graduated in 1971. Rural HS in SW Va. so we were all pretty much same socio-economic level in HS. No one really haughty. A lot of reminiscing and catching up with some folks I hadn’t seen in all those intervening years. Sadly out of a class of 150 over 30 have passed away. Still live in the same general area and my wife stays in touch with some of the folks on Facebook. Overall an enjoyable time.

 

[BE Mike]

I went to a couple and they were disappointing. I went to 2 different junior high schools and three different high schools. We had a huge graduating class of over 600! I didn't make a whole lot of friends because of going to so many schools and due to me working after school. The reunions that I attended showed me that I wasn't one to be remembered, for the most part, and I didn't have much in common with the old classmates. Most of the few who remembered me, have passed. I did have one teacher that I regret not thanking for his mentorship during some tough years. He never attended the reunions. I do have some very old friends that I grew up with and we meet every month that we can. We have a lot in common.

 

[Skyhunter]

Never been, have no intentions of ever going. Didn't like you SOBs 45 years ago; don't suspect I'll like you anymore now.

I can absolutely relate!
Unbeknownst to myself - I was actually "in town" when my HS Class had their 5th, 10th, 15th, 25th, etc. reunions and I didn't attend any of those. Most of my classmates were too "into themselves" or "impressing one another" and I just couldn't see the point of associating with that bunch of shallow people (and I'm being generous with that description).
I had three good friends in HS and regularly kept in touch with them after graduation. Two are gone now, but I see or contact the remaining friend at least once a month.
It's been 57 years since I graduated, and the Good Lord has seen fit to truly bless me and mine. I am happy and content.
'Nuff said.

WYT-P
Skyhunter

 

[65Whelen]

I also graduated 1970, we had over 700 kids in our class, in a blue collar town. I've gone to most of the reunions and always had a good time. Even made some connections with people I wanted nothing to do with back in the day. Some people old age has not been kind, other are doing way better than expected, it's a wide spectrum. My biggest take away, I wish I was half as smart as I thought I was but I'm glad I came up in that time period. We had muscle cars, the best Rock-in-Roll, Beer Bars (it's a WI thing), it was a good time to be a kid growing up. Hell, when I graduated I was working in factory full time making relatively good money and driving a '69 Z-28. I was king of the world.

 

[lestert357]

My 60th was last year, but it came and went without my attendance just like the 50th and every one before that.

 

[max]

I am going to my 60th in August. I graduated from college 56 years ago today. I was responsible for the 50th and we had a good turnout. 91 in the class and 27 are gone. Over 30 of the guys in the military with half in Vietnam. All came home, but some were damaged.

 

[mikerjf]

My 50th was a hoot… unbeknownst to me they’d somehow hired my band to play at it! So being in the band, still skinny with all my hair… I was finally cool!

 

[Greyman50]

Met my 2 old friends that are retired LEOs, 1 State Investigator the other Sgt. of Detectives here local. Had ok N. Carolina barbecue and talked for about 2 hours. Lots of funny stories that I remembered a few. Many were before the “ fleeing felon act” and were real funny. Mentioned several unsolved murders that I remember and one was a girl I had met. My buddy the local said they knew who did it but did not have enough evidence to arrest the scum bag who IIRC is dead so God will get him. He had a 67 Camero that we used to drive down to The Outer Banks back in the 60s-70 and skip school. His first wife was at the reunion but didnt know her as she looked like “ Mama Cass”, could not believe it…….
I will come back up here in a few months and see all of them, will be like the good ole days….

 

[quikdraw67]

We had a 5th, just a rehash of senior year with legal drinking and a chance to hook up with someone you didn't in school. No 10 or 15.
20th was epic, held at a classmate's house who "made it". The guy was a hard worker and really a down to earth type, you'd never know he was worth some serious money. It was a blast. Everyone got along. I guess we grew up a little. Sadly, our host was killed in an accident a few years later.
25th was lame. A clique of snooty women organized it . I knew it would suck, and I was correct. I didn't go, but I got the feedback.
So I organized the 30th, and it rocked, not because I ran it, but because I listened to people. Everyone had a great time.
35th got canned due to covid (2020).
There has not been one since. It will be 40 years this Friday whenI walked off the stage with my diploma.
I'm meeting a classmate Thursday for dinner, I haven't seen him in 15 years. We were really close in HS. This should be interesting, as we are both "old", at least by our standards.

 

[Golddollar]

It took a little while, but I finally got the word that my class is having a 55th reunion. I've gone to all of my high school reunions and I ended up having a good time at all of them. All the baloney that went on during high school disappeared. One guy I was sure despised me back in high school gave me a hug at the 25th reunion.

 

[pawngal]

My high school was extremely cliquey, if your folks were wealthy or you very a jock, you were "in" I was an honor student outsider, and very much fringe. The girls got pregnant and the boys got arrested.
10 year reunion was a hoot. I'd already been married and divorced x2, living in Minneapolis and growing the special herb on my apartment balcony. 3 of my guy friends from HS were members of the outlaw biker club, Sons of Silence. 1st part of the reunion was a kegger at an empty building on the county fairgrounds. They rode their Harley choppers right in the open doors and up to the keg. You should have seen the "in crowd" scatter! I probably looked like Janis Joplin except I had a bottle of Boones Farm instead of Southern Comfort. I left on the back of one of the Harleys.
Stayed away from reunions after that until the 50th.
The 50th was low-key and enjoyable, Most hadn't aged badly, some even looked better!
60th should have been last year but didn't happen.

 

[S-W4EVER]

I never was one of the cool kids. In fact I was so un-cool I quit and enlisted in the Army and my life improved significantly (so I’ve never even been invited). Frankly, I’d be a lot more interested in seeing some of the guys I went to BCT with, I still have more in common with those men...

 

[robbyg]

I have friends from High school 45 years ago and it's funny that some of the people that I use to be good friends with turned out to be not so great people today while some of the ones that were on my black list have ended up being really nice guys and friends with me today.

 

[max503]

The only one I've ever gone to was one of my wife's. Me and her spent the evening sitting by ourselves.
My class has a FB page. The only two people who regularly post are two people I never cared for. I don't care about their vacations to France and their condos in Florida.

Still, if one was in town I would go, but I ain't driving 5 hours to Chicago for that. I don't like hotels.

 

[mauser9]

Ha! Been 55 years for me too. Only one friend left from the high school days I see often. Can't believe how many have passed away! Miss those days of the mid 60s to around 70. Some of my old hunting woods are long gone due to building roads and houses. Miss the old Drive-Ins that cost $2 per head to get into the most. Plus miss those vintage muscle cars the guys drove to school!