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To: Ken Adams who wrote (184047)	9/30/2009 7:05:28 PM
From: Naomi	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 225578

We had our 60th reunion on September 19th this year and it was a beautiful affair. Our now principal suggested we have it at the high school as it is now a culinary arts school and those young kids did a beautiful job of decorating, cooking, feeding and cleaning up after us as well as baking two huge cakes, one chocolate and one white, decorated in our school colors. We gave them a standing ovation at the end which they richly deserved. Out of 450 students, we had about 175 people participate and I had the enjoyment of having my best friend and her husband from San Antonio spend the night with us as well as another good friend from Virginia arrive and go with us. We met from twelve noon until four p.m. and all wished we had had more time to visit. Afterward the five of us went to a small cafe, had coffee and visited a couple more hours before going to dinner. We have always taken pictures of each graduate along with their mates or if widowed alone and I just received my DVD yesterday. They had pictures posted along the atrium from past reunion years and that was fun to see who aged the most....<gg> Our school has made many improvements and we all agreed it was a beautiful campus to go back to. Trees were planted for the WWII veterans in 1949 and they are way beyond two stories tall now, beautiful oak trees shading the front area of the school. The whole school is fenced with wrought iron fence and looks like a gated school. I think we have lost the most in the last couple years from heart attacks to cancer. Our most important question of the reunion committee was: Will we get to meet for our 65th? Answer was: Surely will if we still have half of what came this year to participate. My husband's class did not have one this year, which would have been his 65th. Guess there was not enough still living to have one as two of the original committee members passed away and organizing one takes a lot of one's time until completion and guess no one volunteered to do it. My husband and I both still go to lunch, he every week and me once a month with our close friends from high school who still survive and both are able to keep up currently with them and their families and enjoy having them to discuss old good times enjoyed and laugh and cry with them when bad things have happened among us. They have brought great joy to us all these years and each of us think of them as close extended family members. BTW, on the same day of our reunion, I also celebrated eight years of survival of Colon Cancer, so it was a double happy celebration for me to enjoy with them.