I didn't even attend my HS graduation in 2006/07 or whenever that was. Not really interested in attending a reunion, not that I think there even was an attempt at one. One of my best friends and his wife are people I went to high school with so I just talk to them when I want to reminisce.
High School Reunions - Generational thing?
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I'm 50 so solid GenX/graduated from HS in 1991. I did my 10 year and it was a lot of fun. Missed the 20 and then 30 was during Covid so didn't happen. I'd go to a 40 year for sure if they do it b/c I still live close enough. I do think this is more anchored in the Boomer and beyond generations. I still maintain some contact via social media with some HS folks but overall, don't spend any time with that group but that doesn't take away from the fun it it is to get back with folks even after a long time and reminisce about the old days!
Enjoyed them somewhat when I was single and the girls were still young, but not so much after marriage and the women are all now Grandmothers (!)
I was only in my graduating HS for two years so I didn't know a ton of people or even remember many. I keep in touch and hang out now and them with my five good friends from H.S. One ended up my brother in law. LOL.
My 50th is coming up in two years.
I was only in my graduating HS for two years so I didn't know a ton of people or even remember many. I keep in touch and hang out now and them with my five good friends from H.S. One ended up my brother in law. LOL.
My 50th is coming up in two years.
This year would be my 30th. I have no interest in going and it's out of town anyway. For the most part I didn't like them anyway, so why would I go?
Yeah no thanks. I hated high school, and I moved away after college. My friends are not people who attended that high school, I don't need to go play fake with them.
I've been to my 10th, 20th and 30th and enjoyed them all. Really though it's more an excuse to visit my hometown than to see the people, but it's good to see them. Also make excuses to go to the coast and the mountains while I'm there, go to a winery or two, do all the touristy Oregon stuff. No sales tax is nice also if I have a big ticket item to purchase other than a car - they get you on the cars no matter what when you register them.
But yeah in general Oregon is beautiful and an enjoyable summer visit. So I go to my reunions lol.
But yeah in general Oregon is beautiful and an enjoyable summer visit. So I go to my reunions lol.
Didn't go, wouldn't really care to
Those who I care for, I keep in touch with
This song was trending when I was in middle school, oh how we laughed
With age comes wisdom, they were right
Those who I care for, I keep in touch with
This song was trending when I was in middle school, oh how we laughed
With age comes wisdom, they were right
i graduated from a regional high school in a new england college town. we had a good mix of kids of townies, professors, college workers, hill people, farmers. some cliques among jocks, greasers, hippies but everyone at least got along. i went to the 25th and kinda enjoyed it. with a couple of exceptions i never see anyone from those days, having had a career overseas. i planned to attend the 50th. instructions were sent out requesting pcr tests, shot records, masks… i wrote to an old buddy jocularly asking “hey what’s up with this noise?” without any profanity or anger. he replied literally “gfy.” i laughed it off, sent $50 anyway to buy a reunion cake, and ended up that same weekend in bangkok with my one hometown (childhood through h.s.) best friend, who is a long-time teacher in japan. we had a pleasant mini reunion of two.
My parents moved us to another province early in my senior year, so I didn't graduate with the crew I'd gone through most of high school with. I have seen reunion notices online, but have not attended. I live about 1400 km away now. I've lost touch with my friends from that era.
I don't think the high school I graduated from has had a reunion. The graduating class was sort of splintered into groups that didn't interact a lot - jocks, potheads, nerds, etc. I have kept in touch with one good friend from there. We live about 2500 km apart but have visited a few times over the last several years, and email regularly.
I haven't attended a college or university reunion either. I'm not antisocial, but don't like big crowds.
I don't think the high school I graduated from has had a reunion. The graduating class was sort of splintered into groups that didn't interact a lot - jocks, potheads, nerds, etc. I have kept in touch with one good friend from there. We live about 2500 km apart but have visited a few times over the last several years, and email regularly.
I haven't attended a college or university reunion either. I'm not antisocial, but don't like big crowds.
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Not intending to hijack, but not all reunions fail. Recently attended my elementary school reunion (50 years). Yup, some teachers along the bottom row.
Some of them don't breathe any longer. It's shocking how people start dropping like flies once you get a little older. A while ago I found out that one of my best friends from high school who I had lost contact with 25 years ago died last year. I have been procrastinating and have not yet found out what happened. I came across the obit by chance. I have to contact either his father or sister.
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I didn't attend my 50th reunion because it was back in Chicago, and was just too far for me to go for something like that. The website posted many pictures of my classmates, some were hardly recognisable.
They also have a "In Memoriam" page on the website. When I first saw it after my 20 year reunion, which I did attend, there were just s few names on it.... Now you have to scroll to get to the bottom of it. Everyone is coming up on average life expectancy.
They also have a "In Memoriam" page on the website. When I first saw it after my 20 year reunion, which I did attend, there were just s few names on it.... Now you have to scroll to get to the bottom of it. Everyone is coming up on average life expectancy.
Class of '88, Gillette, WY. I know that people change as the years goes on, but I can't help but feel that most of them probably hold the same values now as they did in high school. I may be wrong, but I'm not inclined to fly there & find out. The few people I socialized with in high school are the ones I keep in touch via other means. I'll leave the reunions to the cheerleaders and the football players. They won't be having any conversations I'd be interested in anyway.
I went to my 10-year reunion and was disappointed that the people I wanted to see weren't there.
20-year reunion came along and I had 2 other events conflicting with the reunion, one of them being a friend of the family getting married, so that won.
Kind of lost interest since. The various classes still have their reunions, and someone came up with the idea of having an all-class reunion, basically a large picnic, the same weekend as whatever official reunion is going on that year. From what I hear, both types of gatherings are very popular. As several have already said, the people I want to keep up with, I do, thanks to social media. The ones that I don't, I have no interest in seeing even though it's only every 10 years.
20-year reunion came along and I had 2 other events conflicting with the reunion, one of them being a friend of the family getting married, so that won.
Kind of lost interest since. The various classes still have their reunions, and someone came up with the idea of having an all-class reunion, basically a large picnic, the same weekend as whatever official reunion is going on that year. From what I hear, both types of gatherings are very popular. As several have already said, the people I want to keep up with, I do, thanks to social media. The ones that I don't, I have no interest in seeing even though it's only every 10 years.
Went to 45th, 50th, 55th, In 2 days 60th. I am on the Reunion Committee.
Haven't read through the whole thread-maybe this was mentioned. But the more recent graduates (last couple of decades or so) stay in touch using Social Media. As far as reunions-I just got back from my 50th in Southern California. Granted I haven't styed in touch with my classmates-but glad I was in attendance. The last one I went to was the tenth. And people don't change much-generally in ten years.
Unfortunately-many classmates are now gone due to drug abuse and domestic violence-at least that was the word circulating at the reunion.
There was 80 in attendance (a number the organizers were happy with) out of a graduating class of 600 (L.A. City schools).
Grad 69 went to my 5 year haven't been to another one. Made the upper 2/3 possible. Don't really care to see these people.
Problem with class reunions is that there are always some people you'd like to see who aren't there, and some people you never wanted to see again who are. If you can enjoy them for what they are, they can be fun.
I had a fun, interesting (admittedly alcohol-fueled) conversation with someone I wasn't ever close with but had known forever at my 10th, but also a disappointing interaction with one of my childhood friends who I thought I was closer with at my 20th. The experiences are kind of all over the place.
I had a fun, interesting (admittedly alcohol-fueled) conversation with someone I wasn't ever close with but had known forever at my 10th, but also a disappointing interaction with one of my childhood friends who I thought I was closer with at my 20th. The experiences are kind of all over the place.
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