Reunions

[Kim]

Anyone going to reunions this summer? Family? High School? Do you enjoy them? What are some of the fun traditions?  I just got an invitation to a reunion for the summer camp I went to from 9 years old til 18. It is THIS Sunday and I am excited. I like ALL reunions. MY family is much too small for a reunion but My Ex husband had a big family and I REALLY enjoyed them. Unfortunately, HE didnt so we skipped many of them. My high school reunion was a total blast at the 25 year. I think because everyone is "SO OVER" the fact that you were either a cheerleader or a nerd and no one CARES anymore. In my case, I "WAS" a nerd and funny thing is NO ONE remembered THAT...musta been the DRESS....LOL. My 30 year is coming NEXT year!

[uno,dos,3]

No family really left so no family reunions. My father was an orphan and had 1 sister who never married. My mom had several siblings all deceased. I have 4 cousins, there is one with whom I stay in contact. I had 1 brother, deceased who had 1 son. That's all there is....

My 50th class reunion will be in September. I'll be going as I was (of course) one of the 'popular' kids in school. I was near the top of my class academically and starred in several sports.  I then went on to have a wildly successful career and retired to a life of riches and privilege. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.......most of those old codgers aren't going to remember too much from those days anyhow. If I'm lucky, one those hot, 68 year old fillies I graduated with will get over served at the bar and I'll get lucky afterwards.......a guy can dream.    

[Wayne Goodwin]

Reunions for family pretty much ended when Grand Ma and Grand Paw passed a way . Mom and Dad are Gone . Rarely see my brother unless he wants something . My daughter's Never come around any more and i don't get to see my Grand Kids . So there's nothing left to celebrate .

[Lucinda Stone]

just about the same situation with our family, only a few aunts, uncles left.. slews of cousins...  we looked at some pictures from past reunions and now we are the oldsters, we used to be the kids sitting in front, now we are the ones standing in the back row... most still go up to the old family farm every year, it's been the tradition since my father was kid, so a good 80+ years...

as for class reunions, they have kinda tapered off, i'm not all that interested anyway, still friends with some from back then, 44 years ago!! wow....

[Lifesighs]

My 50th is in Aug. I was thinking about going but decided not to, a lot of travel and expense to see people I don't know any more doesn't seem reasonable. If I were near by I would probably go. CA to MI, Nah.

[Karin M Fichtner]

My 50th, too, will be in September.  I was thinking of going; I've never been.  I have thought better of it, however.  I'd have to go back up to Milwaukee in September, when I was just up north in July.  That, and I have no one to go with.  My girlfriend from high school was going to go, but she can't afford it, either, so I'll pass.  I didn't like most of the people back then, and they were not crazy about me, so why bother spending money and time on them? 

We stopped having reunions way back when I was in high school.  I think they stopped when my great grandmother died.  It would be nice, but we're scattered to the four winds, so we don't bother.  I would like to get to Duluth once more before my time comes, though.  It's beautiful. 

[flippr 2.0]

i didn't like high school,i didn't know the faculty or many students,i'll never go back for anything.i'm too busy.

[Karin M Fichtner]

Have you seen that advertisement for some dating site where the gal says, "I feel just like I'm back in high school!"?  My son and I were watching that the other night, and he listened to it and said, "Oh, my God, what a horrible thought!!"  I agree.

[frenchy]

well its not so much that i didn't like school or didn't get along .. actually i got along ok .. i was like a chameleon .. i could hang with the jocks or the stoners or the nerds and sometimes the black guys .. long as you treat people the same way you'd wanna be treated it usually works out ok .. but there were only 22 high schools in new jersey that weren't co educational .. and elizabeth had 2 of em .. jefferson and battin .. so goin to school with all guys wasn't where it was at for me .. you could usually find me smokin weed in the john by first period .. after a little while of that hey lets skip 2nd period .. so off we'd go .. before you know it its time for 4th period so we'd just say ehh fuckit and there went the whole day .. so the whole idea of a high school reunion to see a bunch of guys i never saw all that much unless they skipped class with me ( and a lotta them guys are dead or in jail or in rehab or the mob now ) so .. it don't make all that much sense .. far as a family reunion goes my dad split when i was 8 so i never saw that side of the family growin up cause i never saw my dad .. and there were a shitload of em too.. irish catholics ya know .. have as many little catholics as you can .. and they did .. i'm still not sure how many cousins on that side of the family i have .. i went to a family reunion before i moved to florida .. i was 37 and hadn't grown up with any of em or seen any of em for 30 years or more and while they were all nice to me it was one of the most uncomfortable nites of my life .. its kinda like what overnite fame might be like .. suddenly you walk down the street and everybody knows everything about you and you don't know any of them .. or maybe its more like amnesia .. i dunno .. most of my cousins had their girlfriends or husbands or live in others with them so i had to aks all nite long am i related to you ?? they all thought it was funny and cute but i really meant it cause i had no idea .. all they had to remember was one new person .. me .. i was tryin to get all the names and who their mom and dad was .. it was truly overwhelmin .. but i think if i had grown up with all of em i'd probably have had a great time and woulda been the life of the party .. but to do it again after that time ?? nahh .. now on my moms side if we could get all the kids together i might .. but there weren't that many of us and my mom was the one who kept the flock together and now that she's gone we lost our shepard .. time marches on .. and its sad sometimes ain't it ?? so if you have some family that you were close with i'd suggest that you do go .. if you have the time why not ?? of course if 30 years have gone by then maybe not .. 

[Shadowman]

I have never been to a High School reunion. They had the 40th in 2011.  It was a school where there was the city kids and the farm kids, farm being in the minority. Mine was a farm family living about 13 miles from schools so one had to get up very early to farm chores and catch the bus. I found some of my old report cards a few year's back and see that I missed about 30 days a year so out of four years I missed almost a year. I had more of an affinity with the other farm kids even though they might have been 15 miles the opposite side of the town, in other words thirty miles from me. Hardly ever seen anyone from the school except a few relatives that also went there. I had no time or interest for sports and that seems to be what schools revolve around. My family was economically not well off to put it charitably so I got no class ring or year book and did not go to graduation even though I easily graduated. So early on developed an avoidance for rituals and did not go to graduation for my Bachelors or Masters either. Only graduation I ever went to was boot camp and I could not escape it. And in the military at that time people went in individually and were transferred about individually. Nowadays a town has a local parade and a unit goes somewhere together and often returns that way and has another parade and apparently reunions. Whereas when I was in it was not popular to mention you were in the military if you were out on the street somewhere although the haircut may have been a clue. Only one grandfather was alive when I was born and he died when I was three, and parents are long gone as well as a couple of sisters so I don't expect any family reunions (not in this world).

I should not say I avoid all rituals as I do go to funerals as one just has to nod and look solemn; never know, you might meet someone. :-)

[Wayne Goodwin]

I did get all 4 of my year books . Class ring in 1969 cost 20 dollars . Wish i could have bought 100 of them at today's gold prices , wow .... Never got to go to reunion's , too damn shy , but i wanted to go .

One night when all family's were together for Christmas . I walked down to Grandmas . Went in back door , strolled around a little . I felt so out of place there . No one said a thing to me . I just walked out the back door and went home . Was last time i attended any celebration of family ....

[flippr 2.0]

yea,no,i don't do reunions.