Monday, August 21, 2006

 

20-year reunion was a blast

The 20-year reunion was held on Saturday, August 19, 2006. I had a great time! Congratulations to the reunion committee for a great job.

I arrived at 6:00 PM and left at 12:30 AM - 6 1/2 hours - it felt like just a couple of hours. I wish there had been more time to talk to friends.

I was surprised that it was hard to recognize people. I barely recognized at least 1/4 of the people there. It's funny how you have no idea who someone is, then recognize them by their voice or their walk. It was great to see old friends together again.

I hope everyone had a good time!

- Mike Schneider

Comments:
That is funny, Mike... I think that there were a lot of spouses I didn't recognize, but at least most of our classmates had those handy identifiers on their stickers. Very helpful. My wife was telling me that at her tenth year reunion they had laminated badges with the names and yearbook pictures ready to go — any chance of that sort of thing for our next go around?

Anyway, always good to see how the kids we once were have changed over the years. Mostly for the better, too, I should say. You know, some of them have actually grown up. Which is admittedly a bit weird...
 
We had the nice nametags at the 10th, but there was no time to assemble them for the 20th (funny, I seem to have lost the MS Word document containing the nametags after 10 years).

The amount of work that went into the reunion was unbelievable. Preprinted nametags with photos were low on the list, behind things like sending out invitations and actually getting people to attend.

Thanks for volunteering to generate the nametags next time!

- Mike Schneider
 
About that volunteering thing... it's not like I've got one of those nice cushy "tech" jobs where I get to sit in front of a computer all day playing Tetris and reading the Usenet groups. I've got to be out on the streets, Man, pounding the pavement.

Actually, I had forgotten that we had nice nametags for the 10th. I guess they weren't so important after all if the only things I remember are about the actual people in attendance.

So, when is the next reunion scheduled for?
 
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