jennifer408

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i was just listening to robin trower "daydream" and i was in my second car, a 69 Buick skylark, and i am 15 years old again.
 
Jennifer,

My wife and I graduated from Crestwood High School in Mantua, Ohio, in 1962. I had already enlisted in the Navy, so I left home about one week after graduation. My wife and I were married in September of that same year after I completed boot camp.

After completing my enlistment, we went back home for a relatively short period of time. I took a job that required me to move around the country, so we were basically "gone from home" from that time forward. However, a couple of girls from our class have coordinated a class reunion each year for the past five or six years.

Linda and I have loved it. For one weekend each year, we're teenagers again. They say you can't go back, but for four days each year, we go back. Great fun.

Tom in TN
 
I graduated 62 years ago and our class has never had a reunion. But I wouldn't have gone if they did have one; nobody there that I'm curious about.
 
(quoted from post at 08:49:35 07/28/14) I graduated 62 years ago and our class has never had a reunion. But I wouldn't have gone if they did have one; nobody there that I'm curious about.

I agree. 2-3 people I might like to see. The rest are the same morons they were in the 70's. Why bother?
 
I have been to a couple of my High School class reunions. Same people in their same little groups as they were back in the day.
 
Yes, same old snobs they always were. The only reason they invite folks like me is to get enough paying people to cover the expenses. Went to one, never again.......
 
Graduated in 62 and have never been to a reunion. The ones I want to see I usually see sometime during the year. The rest act like they don't know you when you see them on the street, so why make them and myself miserable for a few hours every 5 years.
 
Seems to be a general trend here. For once I'm kinda following the trend. Went to my 20 year reunion. Same people, same attitudes. Haven't gone to one since.

It is intertesting to see or hear about some of the snooty-snoots who have ruined their lives because they had to be one of the "cool" crowd and do the booze and drugs thing. Do feel kind of sorry for them. But, it was their choice and they thought they were so much smarter than us sh!6kickers.
 
I remember driving my 67 lemans...and hearing Traffic(can"t find my way home) and canned heat (on the road again)Bob seger,free,bad company,Janis....I still listen to all that great music today..I grew up with CKLW the motor city am radio.....great music..I"m in my fifty"s now....we had the best music,best cars.. IMHO.....growing up in the 60"s and 70"s..sure was great.....lol
 
YIKES! I didn't realize that class reunions had such a bad reputation. Linda and I graduated from a small, country school. We had 72 people in our class. I don't think that there was much conflict within the class during school and there seems to be even less conflict at our reunions.

You all need to come to Mantua, Ohio, some time and see what good old middle America used to be, and largely, still is.

Tom in TN
 
(quoted from post at 10:37:35 07/28/14) YIKES! I didn't realize that class reunions had such a bad reputation. Linda and I graduated from a small, country school. We had 72 people in our class. I don't think that there was much conflict within the class during school and there seems to be even less conflict at our reunions.

You all need to come to Mantua, Ohio, some time and see what good old middle America used to be, and largely, still is.

Tom in TN

Tom, there was 41 or 43 in my class. Conflict was the name of the game....
 
(quoted from post at 09:03:26 07/28/14) Strange as it may seem, I suspect that the morons enjoy seeing each other.

HAR! :lol: Yeah, but they are all so drunk or drugged up they probably don't know who they are talking to anyway...
 
Tom, I graduated 10 years after you. Our class had a 10-year reunion that almost kept us from having any more. At the 10-year, there was a lot of snooty-ness and posturing; At the 20-year, and from then on, it's been all about "Nice to see ya! How ya been?" Our class had a get-together for the 25-year, the 30 year, the 35 year, and the year everyone turned 55...and this year, when everyone turned [or will turn] 60, we had a "senior" Prom on board the Belle of Louisville...same place we had our junior prom in high school. We've got a 45-year reunion coming up in 2017, so we're already working on some of the details.

We've found that we get more participation when we just have a cook-out at a big camp owned by one of the churches in the area. It's informal, we usually start around 1 pm, and go until the last person leaves [last time that was at 10 pm]. Since some folks can't make it in the afternoon, while others can't make it at night, we try to accommodate everyone's schedule that way. We don't intentionally exclude anyone, but out of a class of 117 [10 of whom have passed away], we get a turnout of 40-45 classmates every time...and it's not always the same people.

One classmate who lives in Florida came to our "senior" Prom, the first reunion he's ever attended...and before the night was over he was asking himself why he didn't come and join us before. Our group gets along because there's been a lot of kindness and forgiveness over the years. Most of us realize that any unkindness back in high school can be forgiven, because life goes on. Holding a grudge from high school [or grade school, as my brother still does] is like drinking poison, and then expecting the other person to die...and most of us understand that.
 
I call us (32) the apathy class. We finally got around to our 45th reunion a couple of years later. 50th was on time. No major issues, one dittwad who insulted Veterans the last time he showed doesn"t show up anymore (he"s toooo important to) and isn"t missed. Early reunions were bragging times, how well each has done, etc. Recent ones are hey, glad to see you! Always a fun time, and pretty good turnout, over two dozen. Two gone now.
 
We had a 15 yr. (some posturing, but OK), a 25 (everybody had fun, I think- last dog was hung about 2 AM), but none since. 50 years will be coming up in 2016- wonder if anyone will step forward to organize it? There's only about 3 of our class of 39 that still live in the same town, another 15 or so are within 25 miles.
 
People say that nobody ever sounded like Jimi Henrix , but Robin Trower came pretty close to sounding like Hendrix. His stuff is all on CD ,but they place it in the blues section not the Rock section.
 
(quoted from post at 09:06:15 07/28/14) People say that nobody ever sounded like Jimi Henrix , but Robin Trower came pretty close to sounding like Hendrix. His stuff is all on CD ,but they place it in the blues section not the Rock section.




i agree with you, i was thinking that when i was listening to them.
as far as reunions go, never been to one and never will.
 

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