Twenty Year Reunion

I wish I knew the exact date so I could have posted something about it then, but last month a major anniversary passed by unnoticed. Twenty years ago this June Patty and I both graduated from Northport High School. Twenty years. Two decades. And last night the Northport High School Class of 1990 held their Twenty Year Reunion on Long Island. We planned on going to this reunion for the past couple of years, but then a few developments threw a big wrench in those plans.  One problem is that I was laid off.  Tickets to the event plus travel expenses would have ran well over $1000.  It would have been hard but we still may have gone if not for the fact that we learned that most of our best friends from high school weren’t going to be there anyway.  Sure there were other friends we would have seen but absolutely none of the people who are all over my old photo albums – those who shared all the same old high school memories with us – went to the reunion, so neither did we.

Here’s our Class of 1990 photo.  You can click the photo to see it a little bigger.  I’m in the second row from the bottom, fourth from the left, in a stripped button-down.  Patty is in the fourth row from the bottom, second from the left, next to the girl with the fro in the red and black sweater (hi Dee).

There have been a bunch of reunion photos popping up on Facebook today and I suspect they’ll keep coming in over the next few days.  I haven’t seen any large group shots of all returning alumni, but that may be because so many did attend that perhaps a group shot that large just wasn’t possible  (I have no idea).  I honestly didn’t even recognize half of the names that were tagged in those photos… even after checking my old yearbook too.  In any case, everybody said they had a great time and it looked like they did.  Whenever we do end up back on Long Island again, perhaps we’ll try to meet up for lunch or something with a few former Tigers.

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