All About Reunions!

Our 40th Class Reunion

is coming soon!

Approximately 5 months until our next reunion!!

Help us to make our 40th reunion the best yet by giving us some input to what you want!

This is YOUR reunion!

Please email Karen Retano with any ideas or if you would like to help us. We would love some other classmates to join us.

              

It has now comng up on 40 years since our graduation from Old Saybrook High School. Our 35th class reunion was a great success with over to 100 people in attendance at Dock & Dine. We are excited to have the 40th reunion be even more successful with more classmates in attendance.

 Class reunions are a wonderful way to reconnect with old friends. We realize you may have no intention or desire to attend. If you are one that has never attended, you have missed some really great times reminiscing, laughing and enjoying the comfort of some old friends. We encourage you to attend our 40th!

We struggle to keep the cost of attending down. We are going to look at some possibilities of a way to keep costs down while still providing a great time for everyone who attends. 

 

    TOP 10 REASONS NOT TO MISS YOUR CLASS REUNION    


1. You'll laugh, cry, and reminisce with some of your old friends.

2. It's ok to not remember someone. That's why nametags were invented!

3. Feel better realizing you are not the only one who has been married, divorced, married, divorced and still looking.

4. Rekindle or begin new relationships.

5. Show everyone how sexy bald it!

6. Even if you had some negative experiences in high school, don't fret about it, you'll most likely laugh about it now.

7. Enjoy an evening out without the kids.

8. Use the reunion as an opportunity to diet and shape up.

9. Humor the reunion committee; they usually are a bunch of deluded diehards who think everyone should show up to appreciate their efforts.

10. And finally, studies have shown that those who were initially hesitant about attending their reunions discover it was the event that they wouldn't have missed!

If you are NOT coming to the reunion, you need a good excuse and a note from your Mom. The following reasons have been tried and are UNacceptable.

     NO EXCUSES!!!

Excuse #1: I've gained a lot of weight!   
Rebuttal:  Look around!!  I doubt any of us could get back into our jeans from high school any more.   

Excuse #2:  I'm a different person than I was in high school

Rebuttal: Lucky for you, we ALL are. Let's face it: we could only have improved.

Excuse #3:   I don't look as good as I'd like. I (choose one or more) am bald, have wrinkles, saddlebags, grey hair and no one will recognize me.
Rebuttal: Guess what! You won't recognize anyone else, either. Using the reunion committee as a representative sample, our whole class looks like a "before" photo in a plastic surgery ad.

Excuse #4: I'm not successful. I'm not (choose one or more) a lawyer, a doctor or rich.
Rebuttal: You'll be pleasantly surprised to find how much everyone has matured. We may be plump and wrinkled (see Excuse #3, above) but we're not stupid. Money is not success.

Excuse #5: I was not in a popular clique in school
Rebuttal: Now that we're older and smarter, those cliques have dissolved just like the superficialities they were based on. The only cliques you'll notice at the reunion will be the sound of your joints as you walk around

     

You know you are getting older when.....

  1. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
  2. You sing along with elevator music.
  3. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
  4. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.
  5. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"
  6. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
  7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
  8. You can live without sex but not without glasses.
  9. You enjoy hearing about other peoples operations.
  10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
  11. You can eat dinner at 4 P.M.
  12. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
  13. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
  14. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
  15. Your eyes won't get much worse.
  16. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.

 

 

25 WAYS TO KNOW YOU'VE GROWN UP:

1. Your houseplants are alive, and u can't smoke any of them
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question
3. You keep more food in the fridge than beer
4. 6am is when u get up, not when u go to bed
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator
6. You watch the weather channel
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of 'hook up' or 'break up'
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14 days
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up'
10. You're the one calling the police coz those !^@& kids next door won't turn down the stereo
11. Older relatives feel comfy telling sex jokes around you
12. You don't know what time the taco bell closes anymore
13. Your insurance goes down, and your car payments go up!
14. You don't feed your dog McDonald's left overs anymore
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt
16. You take naps
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3am would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach
19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests
20. A $4. 00 bottle of wine is no longer 'pretty good ****'
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time
22. 'I just can't drink the way I used to' replaces ' I'm never going to drink that much again'
23. 90% of the time u spend in front of a computer is for real work
24. You drink at home to save money b4 going 2 a bar
25. You find out yo ur friend is pregnant u congratulate her, instead of asking, 'oh ****, what the hell happened?'