earlier this week, i had dinner with my friend, kim. it was so good to see her. i think this could have been one of the most interesting conversations that we've had yet at dinner (aside from all the gossip swaping that we do normally - hahaha). on the way home, i came up with the subject of today's post: high school reunions.
in high school, kim, hollie, and i were class officers. pretty much in every grade if i remember right. yeah, we were sweet. anyways, i guess when you are the class officers your senior year, you are automatically put in charge of class reunions for like, the rest of your life. maybe not, but i think it kind of works out that way most of the time.
for our five year class reunion, we rented out the bottom of the muni, got a keg of beer, threw up some balloons and a sign (that read 'party like it's 1999' - how clever are we), and called it good. i had a very good resource to track down members of our class, so i was in charge of making the postcard with the information and mailing it out to our huge class of like 30-some people. we had a good turnout. many of us were still living in the area so that was to be expected. we asked for $5 for your beer cup to help pay for the keg and the rest of the tab was picked up my the superfab class officers.
so on the way home from my dinner with kim, i thought about how damn old we are getting. hahaha. my little sister turns 9 this year (today actually) and she is a constant reminder of how many years it has been since i graduated (she was born my senior year). so, that means next year will be our 10 year. i'm curious as to what we might do, when we might do it, who will come, and who will plan it (eeeek). that sparked a little something in the blogger part of my brain. i wondered what others did, why people seemed to dread their class reunions so much, and a whole bunch of other stuff reunionish. i thought, who perfect to ask for their opinion than all those fantastic people that read my blog. so, here we go...
if you have been to your own (or your spouse's) class reunion - help me out here:
- did you want to attend, or did someone force you to go?
- did you enjoy your class reunion(s)? why or why not?
- was there something your class did during a reunion that was super cool/uncool?
- did you feel a lot of pressure to look good? be successful? be living the happily ever after?
- was there a good turnout? how many people did you graduate with?
leave me a comment and give me the scoop!
when you are done, check out these other tft bloggers:
jessica, nicole, and kristi.
10 year this summer. According to Lib, it's Labor Day weekend. I haven't gotten the memo yet.... I have no idea what is planned, etc. I think I"ll be there unless I can't be. IDK if Eli wants to go or can. I suppose there is a pressure to look good/be successful but... I pretty much left and haven't really looked back so... I'm not concernced about it.
I hope it's fun though! We didn't have a 5 year. Unless we did and I wasn't invited:)
Posted by: Jaime | 2008.02.09 at 12:49
Well, I graduated with around 700 people and I didn't go to my 5 year, I had a bachelorette party that night. My ten year is coming up this summer and I have no clue what we are doing. I'm not sure if I'll go, I see all the people I want to see from high school. It also depends on if I'm thin again :)
Posted by: michelle | 2008.02.08 at 15:11
I graduated with a class of 26 people. No lie. 26. I only attended school there for one year due to a move...I came out unharmed so I can't complain. I can not see any possible reason why I would ever attend a reunion...the 10 year reunion is this year and the idea of going gives me hives. I keep in touch with one person that I graduated with - but in a small town they all know what I'm up to and if I wanted to know I could know what they are all up to so its really not an interest at all.
College on the other hand is completely different. I can not wait for my 10 year college reunion - I still am in touch with a bunch of people but a lot of people just fell out of touch with no ill feelings so I'd love to see them and know what they're up to. I would feel compelled to look good, be successful and all that stuff...the impression you make with these people will linger for another 10 years so it needs to be good. One cool thing that was done for the 5 year reunion was the 15 people that shared a major with me (Economics wasn't so popular) all got together for a bbq - it was fun to see how that major shaped the start of our careers.
Posted by: Cass | 2008.02.08 at 09:55
Well this year we will be having our 10 year reunion (hopefully). We did have a 5 year reunion and turned out pretty good. What's funny is that my husband and I graduated in the same class from this school and still hang out with a lot of our friends from high school. Like 15 of them! And our class was only 80 people. So you can imagine that our 5 year reunion, was just like another weekend out with the friends for us! LOL!! Which made it really comfortable for all of us. And maybe for others, they had that "reunion nervousness" feeling. For our 5 year, they had it at a banquet hall with dinner and dancing for everyone till around 1am or so. It would be nice if maybe for the 10 year they could do an event that would have families invited. It would be really neat to see what everyone's kids look like and maybe do an evening event as well for just the adults. What is funny is I also have a little sister that was born the summer after I graduated, So she is really showing me also how long I've been out of school. And of course this summer, she turns 10!! How coincidental is that!! :)
Posted by: LeeAnn Howard | 2008.02.07 at 20:07
Had my 10th reunion a couple of years ago. It coincided with the towns reunions so we had a good turn out. We met at the Split Rock Lighthouse park with the idea that spouses/guests would be a little more "entertained" than usual. We did a picnic and had every one donate food and $ for the expense. Everything else was picked up by Micah T (Vice President) and me. I was class secretary so I also got to help plan and set everything and that automatically meant I would be attending. Our class was not very close in high school and there seemed to be many different groups but the reunion seemed fun. It is very weird to be in a room with everyone that you knew so well for so long (small class)and that you now don't really know much about. I was not one of those that hated high school but I definately didn't LOVE it either. There are many things that make me cringe when I think about them. Who doesn't right? Who wants to be judged by their 18 year old actions/thoughts/words for the rest of their life? It was fun getting to know everyone all over again but it I think the concensus is that is it kinda like ripping of a bandaid, just do it and get it over with.... Good Luck!
Posted by: Kelly | 2008.02.07 at 16:01
My class had 600 people in it! I went to the 5-year at a local bar/restaurant. It was cheap and I didn't stay too long. I wanted to go to my 10-year, but I had a wedding the same night. For that our class rented a riverboat in Stillwater. I guess it was cool but kind of sucked too, because people could not come and go as they pleased, and people felt like they were pulled in too many directions. I still talk to many people from HS and had many friends from diferent groups back then, so I wanted to go, but my Bf who also graduated with me said NO WAY was he going. Too cool, I guess!
Posted by: Kristi S | 2008.02.07 at 12:44
I did not go to my reunion because I was hugely pregnant. Honestly I don't think I could have made it through with out drinking:) LOL!!
Posted by: Wendy | 2008.02.07 at 12:10
did you want to attend, or did someone force you to go? - I went voluntarily
did you enjoy your class reunion(s)? why or why not? - No. Did not enjoy, tried it twice, 10 & 20, then gave up.
was there something your class did during a reunion that was super cool/uncool? por nada
was there a good turnout? how many people did you graduate with? The two times I went there were great turn-outs. i graduated with 1,000 kinds in my class. not in my school, in my class.
Posted by: Jan | 2008.02.07 at 11:38
Well since you and I were blessed enough to go to the same HS...I have the same issues (although I don't have to worry about them quite as soon as you do;) I've still got another 6 years:)....I was president or vice pres. all through high school...i ASKED not to be president our senior year just because of this....didn't happen and I was pres. I don't think it's going to be an issue though, because our class absolutely HATED each other, we were "the outcast class of '04"... we all get together for holidays and all class reunions anyway (with one bar in town it's hard not to;) I dunno...it's something I'd have to talk to "the girls" about (the girls are the ONLY people that would even care to have a reunion) but it's definately not going to be some hugh ordeal...prolly meet at the muni and call it good, cuz I know if I planned something huge, or something small possibly 10 out of the 41 people in my class would show up....
Posted by: Mel | 2008.02.07 at 09:44
i got the hell outta town as soon as i could. graduated with 32ish. i am supposed to plan my class reunions (el presidente here). year 5 was an all school. year 10, eh. my take is similar to MrsPop. high school was not the best years of my life. i'm in touch with a few that i want to be in touch with... i think that though as 20+ years creep up it will be much more interesting and might even sound like something i *might* do.
Posted by: jessica | 2008.02.07 at 09:23
I graduated with 411 people.
I did not go to my 10 year reunion.
I will probably not go to my 20 year one, either.
There are only a couple of people I went to high school with that I care about ever seeing again.
I hated high school. ;-)
Posted by: MrsPop | 2008.02.07 at 08:30