HS graduates: ever go back for a homecoming?

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#1

This is a branch from the “high school reunion” thread.

Every high school has a “homecoming,” usually involving a football game (I don’t know what the schools that don’t play football do), naming a Homecoming Queen (and, in some cases, a King as well), and a dance for the students that night. However, I never hear of anybody actually returning to the school on Homecoming Day, except for the parents of the football players / cheerleaders / homecoming court that also went to the school.

Have any of you ever been to your high school’s homecoming game after you graduated? Personally, I only missed two of the first 20 before I moved away from the area (one where I was still in college and went to that school’s football game instead, and one where I was sick), but I didn’t have much choice as I worked in the press box for the football games.

#2

No, not even one. Not for my university, either.

#3

One maybe? Right after high school. That was a long time ago.

#4

I haven’t stepped foot in the school since graduating.

#5

Yes. I run the alumni band group and for the last 2 years we’ve decided to have our performance at the homecoming game.

#6

I never even went to home coming when I was a student there!

However, I did take great satisfaction that we lost the homecoming football game every one of those four years.

#7

My high school has homecoming and reunions on the same weekend, so the alums can also attend homecoming and so on.

I only went back for my 10th, though now that I think about it, my 30th is coming up next year. :eek::eek::eek::eek:

#8

I’ve been to exactly as many as I attended in high school - zero. After my tenth reunion the school sort of went through a change in how they did things with a reunion lull and then a “reunion weekend” for all classes. IIRC that event is scheduled in conjunction with the weekend of a football game for one of our major rivals and not necessarily the game called homecoming. I can’t say for sure because at that point it started getting ignored. My class actually held it’s own, completely separate from the school, 25th reunion.

#9

My school didn’t have football and doesn’t have homecoming, so “No”.

#10

Same here. Homecoming? Homecoming king and queen? HS football team? Not part of my experience.

We did have a semiformal dance one winter that involved the crowning of…somebody…to do…something. I don’t really remember. I didn’t go.

#11

Got my 50th coming up

#12

The only thing I wanted out of High School or college were the diplomas. No interest in returning for much of anything.

#13

nope. never been back for either a reunion or a homecoming. High School or university or grad school. Just not on the radar and for most of those I live in Asia and lemme tell ya that doing an expensive, long ass flight from Asia to attend a high school reunion really doesn’t even register on the radar as something I’d want to do. Lesso for homecoming.

#14

Nope. Even when I lived within a sane distance of my school, I had zero interest in sports.

Still don’t care.

#15

This is the first I’ve heard of going back for homecoming. I guess it explains the name.

#16

I never knew it was a thing until I moved to a small town and found out everyone did it. It never occurred to me.

#17

I went to the first one, the year after I graduated.

#18

The tenth, lots of MD’s, lawyers, engineers. The twentieth, still with the lead pack, but lots of PhD’s and some already with media exposure. And then on the thirtieth, a couple became judges, one general, several became consuls, CEO’s, one became the 23rd richest man in the country. But I’m the only Doper in the batch.

#19

I don’t think “homecoming” is a Canadian thing. Is it?

#20

Except at Queen’s. Oil thigh!