Post by: K Frame on August 22, 2008, 07:18:39 AM
What's not hard to believe is that I'm not going to this one, either.
90% of the people in my class were tools of the highest order.
I still see a number of my friends from that class, and that's enough of a reunion for me.
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on August 22, 2008, 07:22:49 AM
Post by: wmenorr67 on August 22, 2008, 07:25:30 AM
At the rate deployments happen the bad thing is there is a good chance I will not be able to go to my 25th in 2011.
Post by: charby on August 22, 2008, 07:28:50 AM
I had my 15th year reunion last summer.
Post by: HankB on August 22, 2008, 07:36:00 AM
I've kept up with a few friends from back then . . . the rest of my graduating class (470, if I remember correctly . . . started with 630 in Freshman year) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, I have little desire to spend any time up in Daleyville on the Lake . . .
Post by: Grandpa Shooter on August 22, 2008, 07:40:06 AM
Post by: Paragon on August 22, 2008, 07:50:44 AM
I'm not going to it though, I'm picking up a 1911 instead.
Post by: K Frame on August 22, 2008, 07:56:22 AM
Of the women in the class, roughly 25 percent, at the time of graduation, were either:
-- Already mothers
-- Pregnant
-- Had an abortion
-- Would become pregnant within a year of graduating.
Post by: Northwoods on August 22, 2008, 08:11:49 AM
Post by: RocketMan on August 22, 2008, 08:14:02 AM
I really wanted to get a dig in there about how he may have contributed to the numbers.
But I restrained myself.
Oh, and I missed my 20th and 30th. The tenth was okay. No regrets.
Post by: K Frame on August 22, 2008, 08:23:28 AM
Well, to be fair, the vast majority of my classmates probably didn't share those plans either.
But holy hell that's how a lot of them turned out.
You know, it's really weird.
I look at my Mom and Dad. They graduated in the same high school class in 1953, in an area that is VERY similar socially and economically to where I grew up and graduated.
By and large their class was, and continues to be, EXTREMELY close. Dad was very much looking forward to his 55th reunion this year, but unfortunately he died.
Me, on the other hand? I look at most of my classmates with perhaps not contempt, but certainly disdain. Every reunion that has come up I claim that I'm going to be on vacation that week or that I simply won't be able to make it.
I see the people I want to see from that class, the people who mattered to me.
Over July 4th weekend my friend Dave and his wife and son came down for the fireworks. He and I graduated together; in fact he's my oldest friend. We've known each other for 40 of our 43 years.
Post by: RocketMan on August 22, 2008, 08:34:15 AM
). He actually attended two different colleges on the GI Bill, IIRC, before getting his Bachelor's.On the other hand, I've lost track of many of my friends from high school and the service. I've none remaining from college. I have moved around a lot in my working career, and have retained several friends acquired along the way.
I wonder if it is a generational thing? Ummm...probably not so much. But I'm not sure what the influences are.
Post by: brimic on August 22, 2008, 08:36:01 AM
Called my grandmother on her birthday the other night, She said they had their 62 year reunion last week (Her class has one every year for the last decade)
Post by: Brad Johnson on August 22, 2008, 08:36:42 AM
My class was huge. A grand total of 26.
Brad
Post by: MillCreek on August 22, 2008, 08:48:17 AM
PS: Now that I ponder it, I don't think I have ever heard of any reunion at the UW. I just asked Ms. MillCreek, and she had not heard of any reunions from WSU. Maybe the mega research schools with 40,000 students don't do reunions, or if they do, it is by a particular department.
Post by: RocketMan on August 22, 2008, 08:53:55 AM
Post by: charby on August 22, 2008, 08:59:32 AM
Of the women in the class, roughly 25 percent, at the time of graduation, were either:
-- Already mothers
-- Pregnant
-- Had an abortion
-- Would become pregnant within a year of graduating.
-- Already mothers
-- Pregnant
-- Had an abortion
-- Would become pregnant within a year of graduating.
Wow I didn't know we went to the same highschool.
Post by: 280plus on August 22, 2008, 09:02:35 AM
Post by: BridgeRunner on August 22, 2008, 09:38:38 AM
Post by: MillCreek on August 22, 2008, 09:43:08 AM
My high school was in the Puget Sound area, MillCreek. Where did you attend? Or play hooky from?
Renton! The Unsynchronized Traffic Light Capital of the Universe!
Post by: Umber on August 22, 2008, 09:45:37 AM
'05 was my 30th. Man, did them people get OLD!
Next year will be my 44th. A lot of the people not only got OLD, they got DEAD.
I have a good friend whose mom keeps up with the obits in our home town newspaper so that my friend and I don't fall behind on our tally of who has croaked and who is still breathng.
Luckily for me, I'm just too damned powerful and handsome to depart this world just yet... or so says Mrs. Umber, anyway.
Umber
Post by: French G. on August 22, 2008, 10:48:47 AM
We have contact with one other person from the class.
Post by: JonnyB on August 22, 2008, 11:06:14 AM
'05 was my 30th. Man, did them people get OLD!
When I went to our (unofficial) 30th back in '02, that's what I told my classmates. "Damn, you guys are old!"
Made it to 36 years! I feel as though I can make my 40th reunion (if we have one).
jb
Post by: lee n. field on August 22, 2008, 11:13:20 AM
Football jock walks in. Totally bald on top, remaining hair is grey. At 43 he looks OLD. He's a wrestling coach some where. Walks in with a 23 year old trophy wife. I say to the ladies I'm around "I don't think she was in our class."
35th is coming up, RSN.
Post by: 280plus on August 22, 2008, 11:28:01 AM
Post by: Tallpine on August 22, 2008, 11:38:00 AM
I don't think I've (knowingly) seen one of them since then, except maybe for one gal that was a daughter of a lady that my mom worked with.
If you come across a burned out bridge, then you're probably on my (very cold) trail
Post by: RoadKingLarry on August 22, 2008, 11:49:44 AM
So far as those I stay in touch with know we have only had one croak so far and his was a suspicious "accidental drug overdose" that coincidently happened at about the same time 2 of his buddies also died from "accidental causes".
Post by: Iain on August 22, 2008, 12:42:21 PM
I'm in regular contact with two people from those days. Have a couple of others on facebook.
Post by: 280plus on August 22, 2008, 12:52:23 PM
One of the guys I hung around with a lot could not place who I was at the 25th, two weeks later he had a heart attack and died. 43 yo. I went to the 30th and there he was on the "Dead List". Bit of a shocker there. yes, the dead list just keeps getting longer. I guess as long as I don't find myself on it I'm doing ok.
Post by: Larry Ashcraft on August 22, 2008, 01:14:21 PM
We had a great time. We participated in homecoming as honored guests. In the homecoming parade, we had two 1955 Belairs and a 1961 Impala, whose owners had kept them since high school. I drove my 1950 John Deere pulling my parade wagon with about 15 classmates piled on it.
Post by: Larry Ashcraft on August 22, 2008, 01:26:33 PM
The woman with the long blond hair on the wagon is a stripper (if you can imagine a 58 year old stripper). Thing is, it didn't matter.
Post by: 280plus on August 22, 2008, 01:29:36 PM
Post by: RocketMan on August 22, 2008, 02:23:41 PM
My high school was in the Puget Sound area, MillCreek. Where did you attend? Or play hooky from?
Renton! The Unsynchronized Traffic Light Capital of the Universe!
Ah, yes. Issaquah for me. At the time they had only a couple of traffic lights. Now they have a gazillion or so, and I doubt they are synchronized, either.
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on August 22, 2008, 03:33:52 PM
nocredit here its genetics
Post by: MillCreek on August 22, 2008, 03:41:00 PM
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Ah, yes. Issaquah for me. At the time they had only a couple of traffic lights. Now they have a gazillion or so, and I doubt they are synchronized, either.
As a teenager, I volunteered as a firefighter/EMT for Fire District 10 there in Issaquah. This was back when I also could do hang-gliding at the gravel quarry fronting I-90, and the sailplane/skydiving strip was there in town as well. Issaquah is pretty much a bedroom community for Microsoft now.
Post by: RocketMan on August 22, 2008, 11:15:41 PM
The sailplanes and skydivers used to go right over our house. Depending on the winds, the skydivers sometimes appeared to drop almost over our place up on the foot of Squak Mtn. We'd watch them drift down toward the strip, but they'd disappear behind the trees that blocked our view down the valley. Lots of fun to watch in the summer.
Post by: Declaration Day on August 23, 2008, 03:58:05 AM
However, I attend a monthly one with the same guys I sat at the lunch table with all through junior high and high school. We're all still great friends, and they're the only ones I care to see.
I don't care who's accomplished what or who is more successful, but I am proud to say I have packed on the fewest pounds and have retained the most hair follicles. All of them, actually.
It's amazing how many 30 year olds are going bald. 
Post by: RevDisk on August 23, 2008, 01:35:43 PM
That was roughly my class as well. Small town. Lot of folks would be settled and beginning a 'career' within six months of graduating. Married or not, they'd be cranking out kids in short order.
There's no way I'd go to my class reunion without a IIIA vest. Lot of folks wanted my head on a pike back then. Age has probably fattened them up and dulled them down. But I'd still just the same avoid 'em. There isn't a thing in my hometown that's worth going back to see. All the good folks I knew out the hell out and went as far away as they could.
Post by: 280plus on August 23, 2008, 05:32:27 PM
Post by: Bob F. on August 23, 2008, 05:50:36 PM
Post by: RevDisk on August 23, 2008, 10:36:46 PM
Damned kids........................
You forgot "Get off my lawn".
Post by: seeker_two on August 24, 2008, 03:33:38 AM
In small TX towns, our "mini-reunions" usually happen at the yearly Homecoming football games. While my wife goes to hers (we live in her hometown), I haven't been to mine since High School....
I left town as quick as I could in '90....never felt the need to go back and visit....(family lives several miles outside of town...still visit regularly)....
Post by: lee n. field on August 24, 2008, 12:02:22 PM
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There's no way I'd go to my class reunion without a IIIA vest. Lot of folks wanted my head on a pike back then. Age has probably fattened them up and dulled them down.
There was one guy in my class that I hope I never meet without being armed. Until he dropped out our senior year, he made my life hell. That experience, and the fact that noone cared to do anything effective about it, made me what I am today.
Post by: RevDisk on August 24, 2008, 07:20:39 PM
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There's no way I'd go to my class reunion without a IIIA vest. Lot of folks wanted my head on a pike back then. Age has probably fattened them up and dulled them down.
There was one guy in my class that I hope I never meet without being armed. Until he dropped out our senior year, he made my life hell. That experience, and the fact that noone cared to do anything effective about it, made me what I am today.
Taught me a lot of things real quick. Authority is not your friend. It doesn't specifically hate you, because it has too much contempt to lower itself into actually feeling anything personal. Oh yes, and lack of accountability generally makes for a less than optimum workforce.
On the plus side, I learned more about improvised weaponry in my senior year alone than in six years of the military.
Post by: K Frame on August 24, 2008, 08:14:37 PM
One of the jocks decided I was his personal whipping boy, even though we played on the same teams and I was bigger than he was. I guess he had the small dog syndrome.
He decided to take me on one day in class unprovoked; caught me in the side of the head with one hell of a hard shot and backed me up against the wall.
He made the mistake of coming inside on me. I drove a knee into his crotch and caught him about as square and as hard as is humanly possible. I'm surprised I didn't rupture one or both of his testicles. When he doubled over I drove the same knee into his face and crushed his nose.
It was oddly gratifying watching him roll around on the floor, crying like a baby, and not knowing what to grab first. He had to have surgery to put his nose back together. In this day and age I and my family probably have been sued for everything. Back then, absolutely nothing happened.
After that, no one really messed with me much.
Couple years ago the idiot came up to me in a store and started chatting like we were old friends. Uhmmm... I have to go over here and pretend I'm examining the finer points of cheap furniture...
Post by: Balog on August 25, 2008, 04:59:38 AM
Post by: wmenorr67 on August 25, 2008, 05:33:28 AM
This year was the tenth "anniversary" of my getting done with high school. As a homeschooler in a class of one, it wasn't exactly a big to do.
So you finished last in your class then.
Plus, any hot teachers?
Post by: Balog on August 25, 2008, 05:40:04 AM
This year was the tenth "anniversary" of my getting done with high school. As a homeschooler in a class of one, it wasn't exactly a big to do.
So you finished last in your class then.
Plus, any hot teachers?
/shudders
Post by: 280plus on August 25, 2008, 05:53:39 AM
Wait a second man. whaddaya think the teachers gonna look like this year ?
My butt, man !
T-t-teacher stop that screaming, teacher dont you see ?
Dont wanna be no uptown fool.
Maybe I should go to hell, but Im doin well,
Teacher needs to see me after school.
Chorus:
I think of all the education that I missed.
But then my homework was never quite like this.
Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad,
Im hot for teacher.
I got it bad, so bad,
Im hot for teacher.
Spoken:
Hey, I heard you missed us, were back !
I brought my pencil
Gimme something to write on, man
I heard about your lessons, but lessons are so cold.
I know about this school.
Little girl from cherry lane, how did you get so bold ?
How did you know that golden rule ?
Chorus
(guitar solo)
Oh man, I think the clock is slow
I dont feel tardy
Class dismissed
Post by: K Frame on August 25, 2008, 05:54:29 AM
Someone's been breathing the fumes in chemistry class again.
Post by: 280plus on August 25, 2008, 06:01:10 AM
No time now though.
Post by: lee n. field on August 26, 2008, 04:13:31 PM
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There's no way I'd go to my class reunion without a IIIA vest. Lot of folks wanted my head on a pike back then. Age has probably fattened them up and dulled them down.
There was one guy in my class that I hope I never meet without being armed. Until he dropped out our senior year, he made my life hell. That experience, and the fact that noone cared to do anything effective about it, made me what I am today.
Taught me a lot of things real quick. Authority is not your friend. It doesn't specifically hate you, because it has too much contempt to lower itself into actually feeling anything personal.
Give the man a dollar, he's nailed it.
It could have turned me into a whiny socialist. Instead.....
Post by: Leatherneck on August 27, 2008, 04:39:11 AM
50th!
Now you whippersnappers Get the Hell OFF MY LAWN!
TC
Post by: charby on August 27, 2008, 04:42:43 AM
Oh wow, man !
Wait a second man. whaddaya think the teachers gonna look like this year ?
My butt, man !
T-t-teacher stop that screaming, teacher dont you see ?
Dont wanna be no uptown fool.
Maybe I should go to hell, but Im doin well,
Teacher needs to see me after school.
Chorus:
I think of all the education that I missed.
But then my homework was never quite like this.
Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad,
Im hot for teacher.
I got it bad, so bad,
Im hot for teacher.
Spoken:
Hey, I heard you missed us, were back !
I brought my pencil
Gimme something to write on, man
I heard about your lessons, but lessons are so cold.
I know about this school.
Little girl from cherry lane, how did you get so bold ?
How did you know that golden rule ?
Chorus
(guitar solo)
Oh man, I think the clock is slow
I dont feel tardy
Class dismissed
Wait a second man. whaddaya think the teachers gonna look like this year ?
My butt, man !
T-t-teacher stop that screaming, teacher dont you see ?
Dont wanna be no uptown fool.
Maybe I should go to hell, but Im doin well,
Teacher needs to see me after school.
Chorus:
I think of all the education that I missed.
But then my homework was never quite like this.
Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad,
Im hot for teacher.
I got it bad, so bad,
Im hot for teacher.
Spoken:
Hey, I heard you missed us, were back !
I brought my pencil
Gimme something to write on, man
I heard about your lessons, but lessons are so cold.
I know about this school.
Little girl from cherry lane, how did you get so bold ?
How did you know that golden rule ?
Chorus
(guitar solo)
Oh man, I think the clock is slow
I dont feel tardy
Class dismissed
Gotta love youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5t5GukrWOU
Post by: Tallpine on August 27, 2008, 08:16:50 AM
it's a wonder that I can even think at all.
But I guess all my education hasn't hurt me,
'Cause I can still read the writing on the wall.
(quoted from memory)