Have you recently helped co-ordinate a high school reunion?

[LynzM]

I was one of the four officers for my class, so I'm thinking it's probably somehow at least partially my responsibility to make this happen. Anybody have any experience? How to choose a location / collect money? (Chicken and the egg, there...) Getting ahold of people seems like it won't be terrible, since our class was small (108 people) and obviously we can locate a lot of those people online, especially those who haven't changed their names, etc.

Just curious if anyone has any thoughts to share, and thanks :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Just make sure to have a huge celebration, with photos, in the middle

that shows all the jocks in their high school pics and then pics of them now, all fat and ugly and flabby and list their useless, ignorant middle-management or lower jobs and failed marriages, with the children's sports teams that they coach and force their children to play in to relive dad's glory days for him because he's a useless fucking idiot with no hopes or dreams and the community no longer worships them because they don't throw a ball any more.

and then show all the geeks from high school and now, and their high education level, excellent jobs, wonderful salaries, their patents and their awards and the books they've written or symphonies they've composed or paintings they've painted, and fully functioning marriages/partnerships and happiness in life with smart kids who are off doing zillions of amazing, creative things on their own initiative because dad and mom don't need to live through their children.

I think that would be fucking hilarious.

I'd actually go to a class reunion if the whole purpose was to rub the jocks' noses in their own filth and treat them the way they should have been treated in high school.

[LynzM]

2. LMAO

Dude... :loveya: I think we'll have to wait a bit to showcase kiddo talent, as this is only our 10, but I'd sure be up for it in another 10 or 15 years! :rofl:

[Javaman]

3. My reflections of my 10 and 20 year reunions...

10 year: everyone was trying really hard to "out cool" everyone else with their 6 to 7 figure salaries. I worked in hollywood as a camera assistant. That out cooled everyone LOL

20 year: everyone was trying to figure out who died, who got divorced and who got fat. LOL
I was still alive, wasn't married (yet) and didn't get fat. LOL

[BOSSHOG]

5. Maybe an email address data base

And don't try to do it all yourself. Maybe a hotel somewhere near your school will give you a good deal on a dinner or meal or whatever you want. Any bandmembers/comedians,etc in your class to provide the entertainment? And a side event, like a contribution to your old school, a good bonding event.

My wife recently had a reunion (30+ years) and the attendees wore their high school graduation pictures on their lapels/blouses. It was really pretty neat.

Hope you have a great time.

[AlCzervik]

4. oh i want to go to that reunion.

i still check my home town police blotter to see who else from my graduation class got arrested.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. If you have someone like a former cheerleader from my class

who's eager to show off her reconditioned breasts, make sure she has a chair that's a bit lower than the others at her table so she can get the greatest effect from the tank top she wore especially for the occasion.

[trof]

7. I organized one.

It was for my USAF pilot training class of 1963.
Everyone else came here (beach) from out of town.
Don't know if you'll have that situation.
I got the hotel to block the rooms, but had everyone contact the hotel and arrange for payment.
The hotel also catered 2 poolside dinners w/cash bar and put the cost on each hotel bill.
Try not to be the collector of money, if you can avoid it.

[LynzM]

8. Those are good ideas, trof

Thanks for the thoughts on the financial stuff, especially. No way I want to be the intermediary for that situation... :scared: