INGRID THOFT
A few years ago, my best friend from college and I stood on the threshold of a dorm room at our alma mater. We surveyed the scene, and she said what I was thinking: “It’s smaller, right? It wasn’t this small when we were here.” It was, in fact, that small. The good news was that the prison issue sheets were so rough they exfoliated our skin while we slept. When we ventured into the common bathrooms, my friend pulled back the shower curtain on one of the stalls and exclaimed, “Oh. My. Word.!” If you knew my friend, you would know this was the equivalent of blue streak from a sailor.
Coarse sheets and grungy shower stalls aside, I’ve attended all of my college reunions, every five years. My attendance is partly due to my mom who attended the same college and is a firm believer that reunions are must-attend events. Our reunions aren’t wild parties by any stretch of the imagination, but they are an opportunity to revisit college traditions, reconnect with friends, and interact with women who are sharing comparable challenges and experiencing similar milestones. Both my mom and I have found that the relationships we had while at school are just one piece of reunion: It’s the opportunity for new relationships that is an unexpected delight.
I never miss my annual family reunion, which happens every summer. It’s just the immediate family, and as the grandkids get older, it has become more of a scheduling puzzle, but we try to do it just the same. We squeeze a lot into a short span of time: a badminton tournament, a scavenger hunt, Uncle Doug’s steak tips on the grill, and a sleepover in Nana’s room. And t-shirts! We have a new t-shirt every year, which we wear around town during the scavenger hunt. This prompts questions from strangers like, "Are you part of a sports team?" No, but we're great at badminton!
Oh, Ingrid, how wonderful that you have a family reunion every year. I wish we could figure out a way to have an annual family reunion, but it’s always so difficult to schedule times that both the girls and their families can get together. But we’re going to have a reunion of sorts in just a couple of weeks when our Colorado daughter and her family come east to spend a few days at her sister’s home in Virginia. We’ll schlep down to Virginia, too, and we’ll have a wonderful time seeing the girls and the grandbabies. I can hardly wait!
ReplyDeleteAs for school reunions, I’ve never really given them much thought and I always ignore all the high school reunion events. Perhaps if I had better high school memories I’d feel differently about it, but . . . .
Your family gathering sounds perfect Joan! As for high school, I know memories can be fraught. My class had a big one last summer but the timing just didn't work. I especially hated to miss seeing our old music director--singing in the chorale was a high point of my senior year!
DeleteHave a wonderful time with your family, Joan! I think your feelings about high school reunions are not unusual.
DeleteJoan, see my comment below. My high school memories were horrible, but reunions are a completely different situation.
DeleteI had a wake-up call at I think our 30th. We always have a grad night on Friday, with just classmates, and then spouses join us for a big dinner-dance on Saturday. This Friday a woman I went to first grade with, very beautiful and very popular in high school, showed up for the first time. I asked her why she'd never come to reunions before, and she said, "I had such a horrible time in high school". I just looked at her, and said, "If YOU had a bad experience, there's no hope for anyone!" She dated college guys, had a brand-new convertible to drive, and always the cutest clothes. It made me realize that most of us have challenges during that time of our lives.
Ingrid, hello. I didn't know you were from Marblehead, too. We used to go back to Marblehead for lobster bakes on a little slightly offshore island, until it was illegal. Then I think we had them in the yard with a swim off Crocker Park later. My favorite thing, though, was Friday night steamers from the wharf. I'd walk down and get them, and my mother would cook them. My uncle who worked in the boatyard would come by and my grandparents from Salem, sometimes with my great-grandmother. We kept that going for as long as we could. When I move back home, I would like to resurrect the back yard clambakes. Not many of us are left from those days, so I will have to regroup.
ReplyDeletethat's a wonderful tradition Reine! that area of Massachusetts is so beautiful
DeleteI wonder if you're thinking of Brown's Island, Reine? It's right off Grace Oliver's Beach and Little Harbor. One of my B-I-L (who is also from town) has a family tradition of doing a clambake on the beach where they make a fire pit in the sand. I feel so fortunate to have grown up in such a beautiful town!
DeleteNo, Ingrid, it wasn't Brown's Island. In fact I don't know if you can even call it an Island. It's a huge pile of rocks I think just off Doliber's Cove? and at a certain point in the tide you have a little beach that lasts just long enough for making a lobster pit (I think it's illegal now but not sure) and having a clam bake. During low tide you can walk out to it. I swam back once but never again because I was tossed around too much. My uncle who worked at the boatyard came and rescued me. Humiliation. Ugh. He needed an excuse to drop by the house and let my parents know what I was up to, so he brought my mother a ton of spinnaker cloth to make summer drapes (sorry Ted) then asked me how my bruises were healing.
DeleteThanks, Lucy-Roberta. I plan on moving back for a working retirement.
DeleteIngrid, I'm heading to a reunion of college friends in two days time! We get together at a lovely hotel and talk, laugh, eat and drink. It's wonderful! And right now I'm surrounded by e extended family in Cornwall. My favorite thing to do
ReplyDeleteHi Rhys! enjoy your family--you guys need some down time and fun!
DeleteRhys, that sounds lovely. I hope you're enjoying your visit!
DeleteI agree with Roberta, some fun is definitely a necessity for you right now, Rhys! Enjoy all the reconnections.
DeleteThat sounds like the perfect combination, Rhys: talking, laughing, eating, and drinking! Have a wonderful time!
DeleteIngrid, it's fun to read about your college reunion memories. Our university in Waterloo, Ontario does not do reunions very often. But I did go to my 25th graduation reunion a few years ago and it was a blast. The rooms and campus buildings did not look smaller but they did look dingier. And I never went to a high school reunion - no invitation!
ReplyDeleteOn purpose Grace? I smell a murder mystery in the making...
DeleteLucy: Ha ha. No, I don't think the reason I didn't get an invite to my high school reunion was so sinister (or mysterious). The high school probably had my (parents') home address. My parents never did forward any snail mail. Whereas, the university alumni had my home address and subsequent updates from me.
DeleteGrace, the rooms did feel small, but I was struck by how nice they still looked, in general. That said, my niece who just finished her first year at McGill was in a dorm that was a former hotel. She and her roommates had double beds and an en suite bathroom. Pretty swanky for a freshman!
DeleteFamily reunion sounds so wonderful, Ingrid! More and more I see how important that is… And my family is trying to organize one right now. It is, I have to say, herding cats. I love cats, though.
ReplyDeleteIt is absolutely herding cats and will only get more complicated as the grandkids get older! I give my mom lots of credit for making it a priority and making it happen.
DeleteI have never been to a college reunion, but high school? Yes indeed. I went to our gosh, 35th? I was very enthusiastic about going, because my high school experiences were not fun. Putting it mildly.
ReplyDeleteTwo funny things happened: one,I opened the door to the hotel ballroom, and what instantly went through my mind was "oh, this is the wrong place. These are all someone's parents.."
The other moment was how absolutely devotedly friendly everyone was. Oh, we think about you all the time!, they said, and we're so happy you came home for the reunion.
What went through my mind at that moment was: where were you all when I needed a date for the prom?
Our 50th, holy moly, is this July. And yes, I wouldn't miss it!
Hank, yes! I've made one reunion, our tenth. "So glad you could make it! Was thinking of you the other day." Yeah, that prom date thing, or what was going through your mind when you taped a razor to my locker door, or said nasty things about how I dressed?
DeleteHmph.
Mary/Liz
Rereading these. Interesting how many of us have unhappy high school memories, but no one is saying that about college.
DeletePerhaps youth can only be borne by the young.
Maybe it is a guy thing but after wasting money on the junior prom with a girl who as it turned out went with me simply so she could say she was at the prom as a sophomore, I had no desire to go to the senior prom.
DeleteI stayed home, watched TV and accomplished the same amount of whatever that I would've at a prom and saved all the money.
The prom! Exactly!
DeleteHank, my friend and I thought the same thing, "we don't look that old, do we?"!
DeleteThe prom! ANd yeah, it's really fraught, the whole thing.
DeleteMy 50th High School reunion is in August...looking forward to seeing those who make it. Attended my 5th, 20th and 45th...feel like we have more in common now that so many of us have retired. Haven't been to any college reunions and have no desire to.
DeleteAnd Joan, I must say… The old high school experiences pale if you are happy now! You might be pleasantly surprised…
ReplyDeleteThat’s an interesting perspective, Hank . . . I shall have to give some thought to the whole high school reunion thing.
DeleteWe'll all go with you! xo
DeleteI missed my 20 year college reunion for some reason. I forget why now...and it makes me sad. I love seeing the campus, all my friends, etc.
ReplyDeleteI missed my last high school reunion and it doesn't bother me nearly as much. Why? One, I wasn't close to those folks and two, the reunion always seems to consist of dinner and hanging out at a bar. Come on, folks. We're in our forties now. Can't we do something more...adult-ish than a bar? There's that whole lakefront and we're at a burger festival drinking beer? Really?
We don't have family reunions as it were, but we do try to make it back to the homestead one a year around Labor Day for a get together.
Reading this, I guess I'm not really a reunion person! LOL
Mary/Liz
I don't drink so bars aren't my thing, but my family knows the best way to get me to consider going anywhere is by having burgers on the menu. :D
DeleteMaybe you missed the 20th because you were busy raising kids, Mary/Liz? ;) I've heard that from some of my classmates!
DeleteIngrid, it is ENTIRELY possible that the reason for my absence was kid-related! LOL
DeleteJay, I am a huge fan of a good bacon cheeseburger. But there are places that have burgers on the menu that don't involve milling around in a parking lot. =(
Mary/Liz
Mary,
DeleteI agree, bacon cheeseburgers are food of the gods. And yes, milling around in a parking lot would be like a death sentence for me. I wouldn't even do a tailgate at a Patriots football game so a reunion like that would be a definite no go for me even if I had a desire to go to one.
Can't help but not go living in a college town Every year Princeton swarms with 40k revelers from all decades. Quite a sight and experience for us "townies". It never grows old. Some even find time to visit us at our mystery bookshop www.thecloakanddagger.com
ReplyDeleteHi Aline, as we've discussed, I have a sister and B-I-L in Princeton so I've heard about the Princeton reunion. He's a grad and participates in lots of festivities. It's quite an event. One year, they awoke to discover a complete stranger sacked out on their living room couch!
DeleteEvery reunion I've gone to, I've enjoyed myself thoroughly. Especially high school (I've been twice). I'm so much less self conscious which is why I think I experience everyone else as so much friendlier. Go back! Even if you have a terrible time it's material for a story.
ReplyDeleteGood points Hallie.
DeleteTotally agree, Hallie!
DeleteI went back to one high school reunion, but the reunions I really enjoy are my college reunions. There, it's not about a specific graduating year, it's about the summer theatre company we all belonged to. The reunions center on anniversary years for the Tent--yes, it was outdoors, in a big circus tent, in the heat and humidity of a Missouri summer--and folks of all ages, from all seasons get together to reminisce about horrific thunderstorms, lost romances, the show we're in now, and all that other stuff theatre folk talk about. It's fun. And we get to see what this year's company is performing!
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DeleteGoing to do this until I get it right. Where did you go to school Gigi? I went to four different colleges, Christian and M.U., Wichita State, and UT Arlington. We must share an alma mater somewhere.
DeleteThese days they call it Missouri State, in Springfield, Missouri. I have friends at UT Arlington, though.
DeleteI root for the Missouri State women's basketball team! I have loved their head coach Kellie Harper, since she was a three time national champion point guard as a player at Tennessee as Kellie Jolly.
DeleteI swear Gigi, you have what sounds like the most cinematic life!
DeleteIngrid, she does! I'm going to get her to guest on JRW one day soon to tell us about her fascinating job.
DeleteI work in the "entertainment industry." My life seems amazingly normal to me and, on days like today . . . I spent the day alphabetizing Band Camp registration forms and depositing tuition, one sweaty-bra-money payment of $25 at a time. On days like today I always fall back on muttering my mantra: Showbiz is so glamorous!
DeleteMy university was a commuter school, no dorms or anything like that, and I don't even know if they have reunions. I have yet to hear of them, but I'm relatively young, so that could be why. And I missed my 10-year high school reunion because I was on vacation in New York.
ReplyDeleteHonestly though, because of Facebook and other social media, school reunions don't really feel all that necessary. I know what's going on in my ex-school friends' lives and the ones I really cared about, I still see or at least keep in touch with.
I've never had a family reunion, but that's probably 'cause my family in the States is fairly small and scattered. It'd be nice though.
Just wait until your alma mater wants money from you, Mia! Then you'll hear from them!
DeleteYou make an interesting point about social media. I wonder if attendance is down or up at reunions because of it?
Oh, hmm, interesting. Yeah, I bet more people are connected...
DeleteReading all of these comments with trepidation. I'm going to my 50th (how did that happen?) high school reunion next week. I was tempted to skip it, but something told me that if I'm lucky enough to still be on the planet, I ought to go and reconnect with some of the folks I launched life with. I'll keep you posted...
ReplyDeleteThink of it this way, Michelle: You probably won't regret going, but you might regret not going! I bet you'll enjoy yourself.
DeleteAnd yes, look at you, too! You are fabulous, and a published author. That's very cool.
DeleteNot sure about college reunions, although since I attended four of them, colleges, not reunions, one or the other should be hosting something most springs. I would like very much to see all my friends who graduated from UT School of Nursing again. Damn but we are old.
ReplyDeleteHigh school reunions, on the other hand, have seen me twice. The first time was my 40th, and I took my mother along. It was more fun for her than for me even, as she got to see all her friends from the years we lived in Weston, Mo. She had been a favorite with my friends also, so it turned out to be a frabjous trip. At least one a year
I went back a few years ago, took my partner, Julie, this time. You could have cut the silence with a knife! It took me a long time to come out to my very judgmental conservative fundamentalist home town. They neither hung me nor burned me at the stake.
None the less, we had a great time. One of my old friends got together a luncheon for me with all the women from my class, think ladies that lunch, the ones still alive anyway. That gets to be an issue when you get into your seventies. A smallish graduating class gets smaller and smaller.
Would I do it again? Eh, maybe, But only if they give me an honorary post as head cheerleader and life time survival award. Looking back, that time seems more fraught with angst than happy and carefree. I haven't stayed in touch with my classmates although I seem to be on an obituary mailing list. Sad isn't it.
Je suis réfléchi
Finta, this begs the question: were you a cheerleader in high school?
DeleteThat was as brave for Julie as it was for you, I think!
DeleteOf course they didn't hang you. Everyone knows someone who is gay, and always have. Thank goodness for the more open societal channels these days, that makes us realize that fact.
Really Ingrid? REALLY?
DeleteAnd yes Karen, you are right
I think they should definitely elect you head cheerleader by proclamation, but only if you promise to wear the short skirt, the tight sweater, and do that thing with the pom-poms. And, gosh. Weston? Did you fortify yourself with corn squeezin's before you went in? (Yes, I've been to Weston, although I don't remember why.)
DeleteJust making sure you were paying attention, Finta! ;)
DeleteWhen it comes to high school reunions. I avoid them like the plague. I pretty much had no use for most of the people I went to school with (to be fair, most had no use for me either) and the last thing I want to do is ever see any of them again.
ReplyDeleteThe ones that I do see are generally the hit and run "oh I haven't seen you, how are you and five minutes later move on with my life" type of thing. And if I want to maintain any kind of contact with the few women I crushed on back then and still think are droolworthy now, I'm friends with them on Facebook. This pretty much eliminates the need to go to some reunion.
Of course, despite the fact that I live in the same house with the same phone number that I had in high school, when the class I was in did a 20th reunion I was listed as "among the missing". As you might imagine, this made me cackle with Mr. Burns like "Excellent" glee.
As for family reunions, we don't really do any type of big reunion family gathering. Our get togethers for graduations, anniversaries and such serve that function. We did do the extended family gathering at Christmas Eve for 40 plus years, but that ended last year when my aunt decided it was too much for her to handle anymore. Other circumstances led to her decision but that was a big factor. And since my mom had passed in mid November, my branch of the family wasn't in an especially cheery mood on Christmas. I will say that this is the one gathering I enjoyed. Less for the holiday stuff and more for the fact that my aunt laid out a great spread of food that included spare ribs and this dish I call "My Aunt's World Famous Chicken Dish". It's awesome and I waited all year for my chance to pig out on it and bring home leftovers. (I now have the recipe but haven't made it yet. Not sure if I will because it likely won't be the same since my aunt wouldn't have made it.)
I try to avoid going to weddings since almost all of the ones I've gone to have ended in divorce. I'm not saying I'm a jinx, but evidence would suggest otherwise.
Jay, you've got to make the chicken! Maybe it will be even better than when your aunt makes it, and then you can start hosting the Christmas Eve gathering!
DeleteMake the chicken! It'll be like YOU make it!
DeleteThe prep work involved for making the meal would mean it is a weekend dish if I ever get around to making it.
DeleteAnd Ingrid, as for me hosting the gathering, that's not happening. First, the house isn't big enough to hold everyone. 2nd, I live far enough away from everyone else that there's no chance of getting everyone to come down. My aunt's house was the logical midpoint for everyone.
Also, if I make the dish, does that mean I can start writing a cozy series featuring a bachelor amateur sleuth who cooks and put recipes in the back of the book? Or be more like Spenser and talk about the food I make in the story narrative?
Yes, if you make the dish you must write a cozy series featuring a bachelor amateur sleuth who cooks. ;)
DeleteYour being listed as among the "missing" reminds me of my later years out in Weatherford, Texas. For the first six or seven years I had semi-high-profile jobs in the Weatherford community, but after that I started working in Fort Worth, and later Dallas. I still lived in Weatherford, but I no longer worked there, so when I'd run into someone at the grocery store (or Wal-Mart--everyone you don't want to run into is at Wal-Mart on Saturday morning) they'd invariably say, "Oh, hi! I had no idea you were still here!" Which sort of read like "I thought we got rid of you years ago!"
DeleteIngrid, well then I hope I can count on you for a cover blurb for this mythical book I'm now due to write...
DeleteGigi, the funny thing is that I coached youth league basketball in town for 25 years and a small number of the people I went to school with had their kids in the league, so how I ended up among the missing just tickled me pink.
We go to out 5 year interval reunions at college. Primarily because our good friend works his butt off coordinating things for our class and we want to support him.
ReplyDeleteLast time was our 45! How could that possibly be?! Many people did not come, but said they plan to make the 50th. Such faith they they will be able to.
My high school has had very few reunions. I haven't gone. We have a big one next year and I"m still trying to decide if it's worth the time and expense.
College connections seem so much more important somehow.
Libby Dodd
That seems to be the consensus, Libby, that revisiting college is more important than high school. And I agree with your thought about being around for the 50th. I don't suppose that any of us should presume we're guaranteed the next reunion.
DeleteI've been to one high school reunion, my class's fourteenth. Why a fourteen-year instead of a ten-year reunion? Because my graduating class (if I had actually graduated) was 1970. So clever. I do keep up with friends from high school on Facebook, though, which is nice.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I attend a lot of events at my college (Austin College in Sherman, Texas, Go Roos!) the class reunions are always at Homecoming and I always seem to have scheduling issues that time of year. But I keep up regularly not only with fellow alums but with quite a few of my teachers (realizing now that they weren't that much older than I was!!)
For years we went to my sister-in-law's family reunion every June on Lake LBJ in the Texas Hill Country. Fond memories, but, again, scheduling issues, and everyone is so scattered. My brother and s-in-l are in Tasmania, my niece and her family in California... Ingrid, I envy you your Marblehead get-togethers. They sound fabulous.
Did you not graduate? Or did you just not walk with your class? Curious comment, Debs!
DeleteMy husband's high school class, which should be having a 50th this year, has never had a single reunion. The lamest class ever!
I'm intrigued by that comment, too, Debs! Do tell!
DeleteI did NOT graduate. I dropped out at the beginning of my junior year. I did get my GED, though, and went on to (various:-)) colleges before finding the perfect fit at Austin College. High school was obviously not a great experience for me, but I bear it no malice. I was just a weird kid.
DeleteEnjoy the family reunion, Ingrid! We are having one, too, in a week and a half. One of my cousins, who stubbornly refused help, organized it (and I use that term loosely), and it's the lamest reunion ever; half the family doesn't even know it's happening, and there is still no plan in place for food, etc. However, all three of my daughters will be home, and my favorite cousin--who has not been back to Ohio in nearly 45 years--so that's good. Our last reunion was 25 years ago, so anyone showing up at all is a bonus, I guess.
ReplyDeleteUp until a couple years ago I'd been to all my high school reunions but one. However, the same handful of people organize them all the time, and they keep excluding other help. Which has the effect of continuing the disinterest of a large portion of the class. I used to try to get some classmates to attend, but they were so offended at the chutzpah that they refused. Some have begun to attend, and I'm hoping that our 50th in two years has a good turnout.
Which brings me to my point: high school (or college) is over. We need to try to get over it. The slights you suffered then are long forgotten by the kids who perpetrated them, I guarantee you. I had a terrible time in high school, thanks to family upheaval and trauma, but have mostly had fun at reunions. Steve has gone to every one I've been to since we were married, and he has made connections, too, over the years. One time we were driving home from a get-together, and discussing certain people. I said, "You know, none of those people remember me from high school." Steve expressed disbelief, considering the conversations we'd had. I said, "They remember me from reunions." And it is a totally different dynamic, relationships one has as an adult than those we had as callow youths. Thank God.
I hope the family reunion goes smoothly, Karen, but you're right: just seeing one another will be an accomplishment.
DeleteI wonder if people's reluctance to go to their HS reunions is influenced by just how miserable their experiences were. I would imagine if you were seriously bullied, rather than just the garden variety teasing, you might have a more difficult time putting that aside and making a return trip.
I was bullied in grade school by someone I still see at reunions and other get-togethers. She is still a bully, and I tend to avoid her as best I can. Other than this one person, I've had lovely exchanges and forged new and strong relationships with former schoolmates, most of whom I never really knew well.
DeleteMost complicated and subtexty comment at my HS reunion: One guy said to me--oh, I thought you'd moved to New York and changed your name to Donna Karan.
ReplyDeleteHe was SERIOUS.
Well you are very glamorous, Hank!!
DeleteI'm not a reunion goer mostly because I am on the opposite coast from both college and high school and the scheduling has always been a bit off but I am in touch with my favorite people from both places, which for me takes away the need to go. I do, however, love family reunions. My family is always a last minute cluster of "let's all meet up on this random day" whereas Hub's family does a very organized trip once every three years with T-shirts! It is a lovely way to keep everyone connected.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a reunion goer, mainly because there are too many schools involved. K-6 I attended 4 different schools; one school for junior high (yay!) and 3 for high school. So, no roots. I did go to a 40 yr reunion of the HS I was at for the longest (3 semesters) when we moved back to Houston. It was a huge disappointment. As for college, nope. U of Texas too big for that sort of bonding. And Loyola U of the South always looking for alumni donations. Anyway the Loyola days were not a good time. I did have a reunion with my best friend from my senior year of HS (only 2 semesters there). We were in Atlanta for a security expo and I tooled around with Lynn, we caught up, and had a fabulous time. She informed me I kept her sane that year and I was happy to find a normal person to hang out with. We were at a private school with too many overprivileged students. We were there because the public schools were god awful. Anyway, our friendship has always been strong and we can pick up where we left off even though we hardly see one another. I have a handful of friendships like that and they are the best!
ReplyDeleteThose are the best friendships, Pat! That's how I feel about my friend in the blog entry. We can always pick up where we left off.
DeleteMy high school closed ages ago. I didn't even know it had closed until I talked to a young nurse at a nursing home that I used to visit on behalf of my church. We discovered we were from the same city and graduated from the same high school that nobody ever heard of. She was probably about fifteen years behind me. She had continued being in touch with the school until it closed. Two years after I graduated they had an All Class reunion. The announcement read "You may bring a female guest." (Yes,it was a school for girls, but really??) I have no idea if there are any kinds of reunions any more. This year is our class's fiftieth anniversary--oh, my gosh! We must be old!! I didn't like the school and I don't think I would attend another reunion.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if my college has reunions. My guess is that Homecoming is the equivalent of the reunions. In college, as in high school, I was very quiet and I doubt anyone remembers me, and that's fine. For college, I attended one school for two years and then transferred to the one I eventually graduated from. I have no contact with any of my classmates. Interestingly, in my eight person office, four of us graduated from the same college, although no two of us were there at the same time. The husband of a fifth person also graduated from that college. We've joked that we should establish an alumni chapter in our office!
Deb Romano
We can have your own mini-reunion. It's guaranteed you'll like everyone who attends, Deb!
DeleteI meant you can have your own mini-reunion!
DeleteThank you for this article! I volunteered for my college alumni and was involved with alumni activities. I emailed a friend in our alumna to let her know about an alumni event and it turned out they left her off the mailing list! So I walked over to the Alumni House and made sure that they had her contact information.
ReplyDeleteI always go to my college reunion because I have many good memories. My high school experience was okay. Though my high school sent many students to schools like MIT with full scholarships, my high school was in a sketchy area. And the high school reunions are in sketchy areas, so I do not go!