Posted by Goose on July 31, 2015 at 11:00:38 from (70.198.44.206):
In Reply to: 40 yr class reunion posted by 01gentdc on July 31, 2015 at 06:46:46:
I've gone to all of mine except the 10th. Our last was the 55th.
They were all interesting. Our class had quite a reputation for being cliquish and snobbish. As the scene unfolded, it was amazing how the classmates who were the big wheels in school fell on their faces as adults and vice versa. The ones who did good as adults were the ones who nobody paid any attention to in school. I'd guess I fell in the middle somewhere.
We have had some who never attended a reunion, even a couple of gals who live right here in the county. I recently talked to the younger brother of one who has never been back and he replied, "When Leroy graduated from high school, he went to California and swore he was never coming back. And he hasn't, not even to visit family".
We should have had a 60th reunion a couple of years ago, but the two gals who had all the records on classmates have passed on and no one else has picked up on it. I tried, but I didn't get anywhere. I'll have to try for a 65th.
As of now, exactly half of the class is gone, 32 out of 64. The first to go was a gal who dropped dead of a heart attack at age 37. Most passed away from natural causes, although one guy was killed in a car accident and another wrapped himself around a light pole on a motorcycle. (To no one's surprise). One gal shot herself.
I think it was about our 40th reunion when everyone dropped all the pretense and braggadocio, came to grips with who they actually were, and faced the fact that they'd gone about as far in life as they were going to.
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