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Welcome to the 50th reunion of our high school graduation. 471 of us received our high school diplomas 50 years ago. We were individually different, of course, but we shared the same time and place in history.
The 50th reunion is a time to enjoy the companionship of our classmates. Money was not quite as important then, as it seems to be today. We went to the same drive-in restaurants (mostly the TeePee), the same movies and we shared the birth of television. Walking was in style, the streets and alleys our by-ways, as we walked to school or sought out the corner with the drug store, bakery, grocery and hardware, thinking of the day we would be old enough to enter the neighborhood tavern. We still looked up and noticed when an airplane flew overhead. We laughed, we teased, but we respected our friends and the parents of our friends. In those "Happy Days" we were cool, before it was cool to be cool.
We wear comfortable clothing now, the girls still brunette or blonde - the men with hair of silver or hair gone. We are mostly retired and our competitive spirits have softened. We are no longer concerned how much education a classmate achieved or what kind of job they had. We laugh, we tease, we respect the friends of our youth. We reminisce and remember the good times of our teens. We now all brag about the grandkids and great grandkids. At the 50th we are again 18 years old - ready to take up our conversations of one half century ago.
There truly is something quite special about all of us getting together to celebrate our 50th reunion - a needed tonic that keeps us forever young.
Your Reunion Committee:
Sandy (Mussmann) Drexler Kelly Glass
June (Cook) Hill Larry Manning
Debbie (Stace) Vanderveen Don Townsend
Sherry (Callahan) Copenhaver Tommy Baxter