High School Reunions

I lived in the town I was born in until I was 20ish. I went to a Catholic elementary school but talked my dad into letting me go to the public H.S. That was a huge mistake and it was quite the adjustment for me. I was a wee bit like Lindsay Lohan and there are probably people who'd be surprised to know I'm still alive

 Stacey, back in the dinosaur age, they would call my mother for my address (DH was military).  Other ways to find out...my class has a Facebook page, classmates.com is an option...many high schools have a website with an alumni page, and a few classmates have set up an alumni page of their own.  Google your HS and year of graduation, and you might be surprised what you come up with. 

I was a bookworm and didn't do a lot of socializing, so I have no desire to attend a reunion.  Most of the people I was friendly with are professionals and spread out all over the country, and they would be the ones I'd be interested in visiting with.  I haven't even found more than a couple on FB.

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Can I just ask where you would even know or be contacted about a high school reunion?

You could contact the school and see if there's a reunion committee for your class and you could also check classmates.com.  If you give them the name of the school, the city, state and year of graduation, you can find out how to contact almost anybody.

Joyce

 I have lived in the same town since I was 4 months old. I lived in one neighborhood up until I was 9 and a half, then I have lived in the same house in a different neighborhood across the street since then. I actually see the people I went to school with pretty rarely, except the few people I choose to see.

I think whether or not someone wants to go to their reunion just depends on how much they enjoyed high school and how they got along with their classmates.

I just graduated HS in 2009 so I won't be going to any reunions for a while yet, lol. But I'm not sure if I will go - I think it just depends on where I am in my life and if I feel like going at that time of course.

I know that I am really envious of people who went to high school in the same town they grew up in. I think that really helps your high school experience. I went to a high school that was 3 hours away from the town I went to elementary and middle school in. I never felt that my high school town was *mine*. But I did make some good friends nonetheless.

So, no, I don't think it is wrong of you to not want to go to your reunion. Don't make yourself go just because you think you're obligated to go or something. If you feel like you might regret not going, then sure, give it a try. And I know you said you are not where you want to be in life - but you just got a new job in an animal shelter, right? That's very exciting. :)

 No I can't see wanting to go, then again I hated school.  It wasn't so much classmates, though there sure where their far share of brats but the workload.  I had a lot of stress placed on me to do well as in all A's, advance/honors classes.  I found it a mind numbing existence.  Wasting so much of ones life cramped in a desk chair learning about drivel I would forget a day after taking the test. 

A special new high school program opened up down here that was a dual enrollment for your last two years of high school and I jumped at it since it meant getting through school faster.  All of the classes where on college campus and they had teachers certified to teach both high school and college credits so you could get the core hours (in math, history, and English) you needed for high school while getting college credits in the same shot.  The rest of the classes we got to pick and choose where standard college classes.  The irony was everyone got there AA degrees like a month or so before our highs school diplomas.  It was a lot of work, but it was like going to college.  There was no babying, lunch period, needing to ask to go to the bathroom or being monitored like little kids.  It was a small program with I think around 150 students for my year.  It was great in so far as there was none of the drama, bratty behavior you see in typical high school.

 I went to the same elementary, middle and high school with everyone. I went to my 10 year and it was a drunk fest. I still live in the same zip code too. So I see everyone all the time.

Krissim Klaw

 No I can't see wanting to go, then again I hated school.  It wasn't so much classmates, though there sure where their far share of brats but the workload.  I had a lot of stress placed on me to do well as in all A's, advance/honors classes.  I found it a mind numbing existence.  Wasting so much of ones life cramped in a desk chair learning about drivel I would forget a day after taking the test. 

A special new high school program opened up down here that was a dual enrollment for your last two years of high school and I jumped at it since it meant getting through school faster.  All of the classes where on college campus and they had teachers certified to teach both high school and college credits so you could get the core hours (in math, history, and English) you needed for high school while getting college credits in the same shot.  The rest of the classes we got to pick and choose where standard college classes.  The irony was everyone got there AA degrees like a month or so before our highs school diplomas.  It was a lot of work, but it was like going to college.  There was no babying, lunch period, needing to ask to go to the bathroom or being monitored like little kids.  It was a small program with I think around 150 students for my year.  It was great in so far as there was none of the drama, bratty behavior you see in typical high school.

 

I think now they have something similar to that here. In your last two years, you can take part of the day at the high school and part at the community college. When I was there, I was one of the first people to have a college arrangement. I took two classes my summer between junior and senior year. This got me out of the second half of senior year. The semester of senior year that I did go to school, I also took two college classes at night. Then, that semester after I finished at the high school, I became a full time college student.  I walked with my high school graduating class though. It was funny the day I had to go to graduation rehearsal, because I had to let my college professor know that I was going to miss class. Because of the way my arrangement was made, nobody knew I was a high school student unless I chose to tell them. There were certain people who never found this out.

My graduate program has reunions at a national conference every year, or at least we do right now. Someone organizes a session on one of the nights for this. Anyone who every went is welcome to go, current and past students, and professors. I haven't gone to the conference yet, so I haven't been to this. I would actually want to go to that. 

auburn2932

  I'm smiling because the first class reunion I went to was my 50th, was never interested before that, the two girls I had run around with were both killed in automobile accidents when they were only in their 20's. I just went last year to my 60th reunion, I have been going to luncheons also that we have twice a year, I really do enjoy them, I encourage you to go don't wait as long as I did.  I really enjoy them.

Too funny - you and my mom lol.  The first one she went to was her 50th, too!  I drove her, and I remember that she was so thrilled that people so easily recognized her after all those years.

Early on, I went to a couple with my ex-husband, then the next one I went to was my thirtieth.  I took Mike (who, being thirteen years younger than me, was only 5 the year I graduated).  He was a big hit with my classmates, and danced up a storm with me.  Sometimes, looking back, I'm so grateful to him for always doing anything I wanted to do, and never making a big deal out of it.  A lot of guys probably would have said they didn't want to go because they'd have nothing in common with people from that class.  But, he went and just had a great time, even if he didn't know that the girls wore their hair in "flips" in 1968.