This past Saturday my high school class celebrated our 25th reunion. I wasn’t able to go because of my 2 year-old child, but I was happy to receive the following video that was put together by one of my classmates. It starts out with the current freshman class of Princeton High School making fun of us for being old and going to school before the internet. Then it proceeds to a shout-out from two teachers who are still there before a photo montage of old faces and old clothing and hair styles. It was quite the trip down memory lane. The video ends with a song by Blues Traveler. Three of the original members, Bobby Sheehan, Chan Kinchla, and Brendan Hill, were members of this class. John Popper was in the Class of 1986 along with his best bud Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors. Tad Kinchla must have been in the class of 1990, give or take a year. Anyway, if you want a taste of my high school years, you might enjoy this.
When was your 25th reunion, or when will it be?
I’m class of ’95 so mine will be in 2020. I actually really enjoyed our 10th reunion. Everyone who showed up was genuinely interested in who we’d all become; this was just as MySpace was really huge so most of us had already done the whole “yikes you’re bald!” “wow you’ve got 3 kids!” thing via that site. No really weird Romy-and-Michele-lodrama.
Ready to feel old? I knew you did:
My 25-year reunion will be in 2031.
Now time for bed, which is like an hour overdue (up at 5).
Like a man your age needs sleep.
HA!
My 25th reunion occurred in 1995. I am looking to our 50th HS reunion in 2020. Of course, since we have not had a reunion in about 20 years, and since the HS itself no longer exists, I sort of wonder if we will hold a reunion.
Uh oh. I’m old. I graduated high school in 1976. Our first five year reunion was held the same day my husband and I got married and since we both went to the same high school, we stopped by the reunion on our way to our wedding reception. It was priceless to see our classmates gawking at us in our wedding clothes.
We’ve had five year reunions pretty regularly and my husband and I always go. Our most recent one was last summer. Fewer and fewer people attend, but we still enjoy going.
Our graduating class was over 600 people, so we never expect to see more than a hundred or so. It’s fun to see our old friends and catch up.
wow I was born in 1976
Shut up, you.
You are not old. My 25th reunion was in ’99 and I’m not old.
By 1976 I’d been out of the Marines for THREE years.
Damn, punkass kids these days…
graduated in ’94 so 25th will be 2019.
I’ve been feeling kinda nostalgic too today, but it was because I’ve been obssessed with the video of FLOTUS jumping double dutch on Live with Kelly today.
I can’t stop watching this video. This video reminds me of all the times I watched the girls in my neighborhood jumping double dutch while a bunch of us sat on da stoop.
Brings back memories of my younger years growing up on public housing. I used to watch the girls in the projects where I lived jumping double dutch and I remember even then being mad cause I didn’t know how. It also brings back memories of us playing regular old jump rope in the courtyard of our buildings. I usta love to jump rope, me and my sisters were a team…lol.
here’s the video.
http://youtu.be/oC2zbTGM15g
Too cool for words. What an amazing lady!
Now I have ads for progeria research popping up…
I graduated hs in 1975, do the math. Missed my 35-year reunion due to Islandic ash clouds two years ago.
I haven’t gone to a HS reunion yet. My 20th was in the past couple of years, so the 25th will be here before I know it. No, I’m not going to that one either. I just have no interest in it.
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I appear to be the oldest actually making a comment. My HS graduation was 1970. Nixon was still considered an honorable guy when I graduated, although I hated his fucking guts. Reagan wasn’t a national politician. No one had ever heard of Jimmie Carter.
Interestingly, Hillary went to the same school system as my dad taught in. He taught in Maine East, she went to Maine South. She might have gone to Maine East for 1 year, due to construction dates (she graduated 1968; her first year was 64-65). Since he taught biology, he might have had Hillary in his class. He’s dead now, and Hillary is not telling.
Sorry, Dataguy, 1969 here. My 25th was in 94, by 50th will be in 2019.
But I won’t go. I didn’t like the sob’s the first damn time, and I doubt that any of them have aged any sweeter than I.
Sorry DerFarm and Dataguy. Class of ’68 and our 45th is coming up next year. I’ve been to some of the reunions and had a good time. I went to a giant suburban high school in the San Francisco East Bay.
Well, yer both wrong. I clearly stated “I appear to be the oldest actually making a comment.” And, until you made a comment, that was true. Lurkers don’t count.
My 25th will be in 2021, but I’m with DerFarm – I’m still in touch with the few people from high school that I care to stay in touch with, so I’ll likely avoid the reunion.
I think you should start doing open threads with anonymous demographics polls. I’d be interested in seeing a breakdown of who your primary readership is. I bet it has changed significantly since your blog’s inception.
Reading the comments, Booman seems to have put together a posse of old-farts 😉
We had our 20th and then decided we had seen enough of each other so we are skipping 25 and will reunite for our 30th.
I should say that we skipped our 25th!
Yikes! I went to my twentieth reunion in 1987. Gonna skip the 45th this year in favor of travel to more exotic climes.
Anyway I still see my old friends occasionally.
It’s all relative, and if you’re lucky perspective changes every day.
Next year will be my fortieth. Nobody goes though, out of a class of forty-five only seven of us remain alive.
So hardly anyone has reached 60? Do I have my math right?
No. Your math is wrong. Anyone whose graduation was prior to ’70, and possibly ’71 will be 60 in law if not in fact (kinda depends on which month …).
By my count there are at least 4. Which hardly qualifies as “hardly any”.
damn, punkass kids these days…
I enjoyed the video. Your teachers have held up well. Dude at 8 minutes resembles the actor Rufus Sewell. I’ve been to just one reunion, my 20th in 1986. This was near Akron OH. Moderately famous people from my high school include Carl Oglesby, who I would expect some of you are familiar with. He died last year and there were numerous stories about him. Also, at the opposite end of some random spectrum, Jeffrey Dahmer. Not too proud of that one.
Umm Boo…
IIRC high school sucked. Not sure who wanted you out of there more, you or the school. Feeling nostalgic for Mr.Van?
During my seven years in the Princeton school system the town didn’t pass a single budget. The library stopped buying books. I didn’t take single field trip. I had an auto mechanic teacher who routinely would shock his students by hooking them up to the spark plug tester. The football team was able to afford MAYBE 5 new helmets a year. If you were a freshmen you probably wore a 15 year old helmet with totally worn out padding.
You did have some remarkable people in your class however.
So perhaps for that alone it would be worth it to check in on them.
But for me I really didn’t like most of the people in my class 35 years ago. I doubt I would find them that interesting today.