The people who I want to see, I am in touch with (or could get in touch with) and can see regardless of the reunion. The others, not that there are any hard feelings, but why would I want to go to a reunion to see people I’m not particularly friends with, then or now? I would much rather just get together with my group of friends separately.
I enjoyed high school. Went to the 40th reunion, enjoyed that. Done.
I’m not a party person, especially when it comes to parties that are 2,000-3,000 km away.
Restraining order.
My high school has only had one actual reunion that I’m aware of. That was for over a number of years not just one particular graduating year.
My final high school year had most of the students disperse all over the country, very few stayed in the area, apparently 3 people from my year went to the big reunion and all 3 of them were still local.
I couldn’t be stuffed driving 3 hours to go socialise with a bunch of people I didn’t really like in the first place. I’m in contact with the few I’m interested in maintaining contact with on Facebook.
That’s what my brother did on the weekend of his 25th reunion. They all got together at a park for a big picnic with all their kids and spouses, and had a great time. He had considered participating in the golf outing (and was assigned to a foursome with people he didn’t know) but cancelled because it was 100 degrees that day.
My parents both attended small schools, and both schools have dinners every year around homecoming time for people who graduated 50-plus years ago, and they usually go to those.
Didn’t have the funds to travel to another state, didn’t give a damn anyway. Most of my classmates were not people I enjoyed spending time with when I had to, I really have no urge to go to considerable hassle and expense to spend time with them now, since I really don’t care about their current lives. They’re strangers to me by now (30th will be next year).
I wasn’t invited.
Oh shit nvm it’s not 2017 yet
It didn’t happen yet
Nope.
It’s probably self selection. I tend to interact with people who were the odd kids in high school. I literally don’t personally know anyone who fondly remembers high school. They all remember it as the worst period of their lives. No one is as ruthless to an outsider as a bunch of pubescent kids.
Navy had just moved us from Norfolk VA to New London CT and we lost the rental house we had been living in [owner decided to default and give it to the bank] so we had 30 days to find a new place to live, pack everything and move it. [this was 1990] so there was no way I was going to sacrifice a weekend to travel, party and return.
We did go to the 25th and in 2030 we might go to the 50th.
And my school doesn’t differentiate between years, it is one giant party, though the ‘invitations’ do mention which year-anniversary it is going to be. [Private school, class size is limited to 50 students so it doesn’t make sense to separate the classes and the one giant party is sort of a long standing tradition.]
I fondly remember a lot of high school. It was an unusual circumstance for me being in a school that was primarily the odd kids. But even in my first year of high school at the public school there were enough odd kids that we were a sizable group on our own. The times were a factor there, the 1970s was full of cultural change and where I was there was a migration of kids who no longer felt the need to conform. I think it was still rough on everyone who was shy, not tied to a group of old friends, noticeably different from the rest, and I had plenty of hard times then myself, but to this day I still have fond memories of that time before I was an adult.
Anyone I liked in high school, I still keep company with, geography permitting. The people with personalities most likely to attend the things are the ones I never liked, so why waste my time?
I’m pretty sure there was no 10th reunion - we were pretty sad even back when we were in HS (there was no senior class play that year). The 30th reunion was in 2010, and I didn’t go because I had moved 6 thousand miles away.
I lived on the far side of the country and would have not known there was a reunion even if there was one. By the late 1980s I was long out of touch with anyone I went to school with, and that was how it stayed until Friends Reunited and later Facebook. (And one random friend I discovered via BT Phonedisc in about 1998, on account of an extremely unusual surname.)
Plus that whole very-few-people-I’d-have-wanted-to-see-again thing.
Most of my high-school friends were in different classes than I was (class of '99, class of '01, for example, instead of class of 2000).
That, and I didn’t get notice for it, and couldn’t have afforded it.
Maybe I am weird, but I don’t keep in touch with anyone from high school (Class of 1990). Even cousins that attended around the same time as I did, I talk to them perhaps once every few years when I am back in the U.S.
I don’t think there was one. They had a 5-year, which I went to, although no one had changed that much. They had a 15-year, which I also went to, but no one I was very close to in school was there so it was pretty boring. There was no 20th as far as I know. There was a last minute 25th that was like “hey a bunch of us are getting together at the local tavern” but since I live 1,000 miles away I couldn’t get there in time after work that day. Our 30th will be next year (2017) but I’d be surprised if anyone puts any effort into it.
The 10-year was the only one I did go to. I’d joined the Navy a few months earlier, and by coincidence I was able to stop off for the reunion on the way from my ‘A’ school in San Diego to SubScol in Groton. Had a good time - people ranged from the girl who looked like she’d just stepped out of her yearbook picture to the guy who didn’t look a bit like the person his nametag claimed he was, and even the people who hated me while we were in school seemed genuinely happy to see me. (Very small turnout, though - maybe 40 or 50 people, around 5% of the class.)
I’d just transferred to a new command a couple months before my 20-year, and couldn’t get leave to attend.
We didn’t have a 30-year, I think because the folks who had organised the first two were burned out and on one wanted to take over. The following year the class after us invited us to their 30-year, since we hadn’t had one of our own; they also invited the class after them, on the grounds that no one goes through high school only having friends from their own class. I was on deployment that year, though, so I couldn’t attend. (I think I was in Crete that weekend.)
Couldn’t fit the 40-year into either my work schedule or my budget, alas. (One of three reunions - high school, church, and boat - I missed out on that year. :() Going by the pictures posted on Facebook, there were over 100 attendees that year.
Yes; it is. I didn’t graduate with a single person I ever wanted to see again except in passing.
I doubt my class ever had one, if so then I was not made aware of it. How would know anyway? I kind of doubt I would recognize or remember anyone after 20 years.