My High School's 30th Class Reunion

Recently attended my high school class reunion. Central High School, that is. Home of the "Fighting Falcons," although I was never sure what we were fighting about.

30 years. wow! Attendance was fairly poor. My guess is that with everyone's busy lives, taking a weekend in the fall to re-visit people you may not have seen (nor really care to see) in 5, 10, 15, even 30 years is not a high priority. My family still lives in town, so I had a dual purpose from my trip.


As you can tell from my hometown's webpage banner, Shenandoah County is fairly rural. I was born and raised in the county seat, Woodstock. Attended K-12 there, although Kindergarten at that time was called "Head Start" and not everyone was able to go.

I was so busy talking that I forgot to take pictures. Luckily, Bert accompanied me (poor guy) and took a few group shots. After a bunch of them, no one was looking in the same direction at the same time nor with their eyes open. So photography was not a strong point of the reunion. I'm hoping someone else took some decent pics.


Here's a close-up from one of the group shots. That's me and Jeff; he's making me laugh as usual. Jeff is my friend who lived in Japan for many years. I visited him, and his now wife Hee, in Japan right before he moved back to the States.


Good times. But, as the saying goes: you can't go home again. I like where we are now: