Are there some people who you should not invite to a high school reunion?

[bluestateguy]

Say you are on the committee for a 10 or 20 year reunion.

In the process of rounding everybody up you find someone who has been in and out of jail for violent crimes, and maybe they are currently out on parole or probation.

Should you invite that person to the reunion? Or how about an old high school classmate who served a few years at the Club Fed for securities fraud? Should that person be invited? I wonder how high school reunion committees ethically deal with these questions.

[hobbit709]

1. I made my 10th. Haven't made any since. In two years will be the 50th.

I didn't care for most of the people I was in high school with. They were all Republicans then and I doubt they changed for the better.

[elleng]

2. Attended my 30th ad 50th,

and didn't notice any criminals or parolees there, but I could be wrong.

[bigwillq]

3. I would think everyone should be invited

No?

If they were part of the class, they should get invited.

[progressoid]

4. I was in charge of one of ours (20th, I think)

And we invited everyone, even a few of the dropouts. A couple of them had been in jail. They didn't even bother to RSVP. I don't think they really cared to see any of us anyway.

on edit. I should note that we had a small class if that makes any difference.

[HeiressofBickworth]

5. We had that very issue come up at our 10th reunion

which was in 1974. One of our classmates had killed his wife and (I don't know the details) but we heard he was out of prison. No one had heard from him in the meantime. We (I was on the committee) decided it would be uncomfortable to invite him and took the lesser action of not doing anything to locate him. His name never came up again at any future reunions. I suppose if he had contacted any of our classmates, we would have extended an invitation, but the easier path was to do nothing.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. My next one will probably be at 60-years

Most of us should have outgrown any felonious activities by then. Most of us.

[mnhtnbb]

7. At my 40th one of the 'scholar-athlete' types was in attendance

who had served time at a Camp Fed for securities fraud. He and his wife--we were cheerleaders together--were one of "the couples"
in high school. Several months before he was sentenced she had jumped in front of a train while out for her early morning jog.
Nobody could figure out why she'd done it. Then, the mess with him, the charges, and the sentencing came out about six months later. Very sad.