Upstate New Yorker highschooler here.
I have already got an invite to my 30th year reunion which is scheduled for late July. I would consider going to it but I have a conflict. It is set for the only weekend that I know that I will be busy. I haven’t been to my high school hometown since my 10th year reunion. It is about 1100 miles away.
I don’t know if they had a 15, 20 or 25 yr reunion because they didn’t know how to contact me. Recently I registered on the alumni website.
My invitation included several of “my crowd” amongst “the missing” and so I would probably be disappointed not to see those people.
Exactly. I remember when I graduated a few kids were already planning the five year anniversary. That came and went with nary a peep. Maybe 10 years will be different.
My mother is in Mexico. She gets together with classmates from elementary, high school and college several times a year. I think the people she went to elementary school get together for breakfast every month or so. Most of it is unofficial and informal, but I know they periodically have more formal get-togethers. She’s 84, so there aren’t that many classmates left, but she seems to enjoy keeping up with them.
I grew up in Michigan and ignored my high-school reunions until the 30th. I figured it would be interesting to see what we had all become. I chatted with a few people I hung around with in high school and a few people I’d known since kindergarten (we went to a small Catholic school from K-8). It was interesting, but also kind of odd. I’ll probably go to the next ones out of curiosity.
My brother’s 8th grade class had a reunion last month. They had lots of fun (he has a much nicer class overall than I did). They got a tour of the school (one of their classmates is the pastor of the church, so it was easy to set up), and a few teachers and parents showed up (some were both teachers and parents; some of the teachers had siblings in my brother’s class) and then the class had a dinner-dance. Even the kids who were kind of stuck up by the time we got to high school were fun to talk to, he said.
I just had one this June, in Sweden. 10.th year anniversary from graduation.
But that was just our class (90% of it though) and it ended in a lot of drinking and a few of us guys attempting to hit the titty-bars in Copenhagen (which proves we’re not that far from what we were back then).
(I would like to point out that we didn’t succeed and most of the people still lived in the same town)