Class Reunion
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Topic: Class Reunion
Posted By: Dusty MI
Subject: Class Reunion
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2021 at 9:22am
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Going to 60th H.S. Class Reunion today, do to Covid it's a year late. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2021 at 9:55am
Dusty, keep you hands off them wild womuns.... You know what happens where they hit 75 years old !!  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2021 at 9:12pm
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That's a lot of years. I thought my 50th coming up Labor Day weekend was old. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2021 at 10:15pm
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as long as i don't have to plan them, i don't mind going! |
Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2021 at 10:36pm
| I will not go to another,,jus the same clics as back then....and really there's none of the ones I used to hang out with back then that go to reunions either.. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 12:07am
| i've never gone to any of mine, went to one of the old ladys....oooops....i mean my loving wifes once, now she'll never go to another one now. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 6:46am
| My accountant and I each went to 30yr. Except for hair loss and weight gain they're all the same. Won't be back. Happy for those who enjoy them |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 7:08am
| The last reunion I went to, my old classmates all looked old, except me... |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 7:45am
| Even as did not graduate with the class I have been invited back into their fold, our 50th is coming up quick where it has been noted a full third of our classmates did not make the journey. Many of our friends passed early into adulthood, some to drugs a few to suicide and a great deal of health issues as cancers or heart disease and accidents. |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 7:58am
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Mine would have been 45 this year. I think it was the 35th reunion they were after me to go. Found a couple of classmates and we talked for a bit. Sheesh...talk about pain and misery. No thanks, couldn't get out of fast enough anyway and then relive some of it, I don't think so.
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Posted By: JTOOL
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 11:20am
| Graduated in '90. Skipped my 5 year reunion, then hemmed and hawed and finally went to my 10 year reunion and had a really good time. Then went to my 15 year reunion and it was like all of the clique's reformed. Terrible time. Skipped the 20 and 25 year reunion's but then ran into a gal that I graduated with after the 25 year reunion and was kind of "guilt tripped" into pledging to attend the 30 year reunion. One of COVID19's silver linings was that the 30 year reunion was canceled. Doubt I'll be attending any more. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 4:26pm
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Haven’t been to any but going to the town where I grew up and where I graduated next weekend to see big boy train and visit. My dad still lives out that way. Will get to spend a day with him. I still visit with a friend of mine from high school quite often even though I haven’t seen him since graduation. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2021 at 6:57pm
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Last year would have been my 40th. I assume it was canceled, as I never received any information on it. My wife and I went to my 10th, and 25th. We had a pretty good time at both. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2021 at 9:22am
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I haven't missed any and the next one will be in 2 years and will be our 60th.
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2021 at 10:07am
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Hear I thought I was a stick in the mud. Never just went to the bar to socialize. Did not care to have to leave "them thar hill" as young guy. But the loving wife was on the planning and organizing for her high school reunions for years. An that was the school 15 miles down the road from mine........The Arch Ravel. An she just up and signed us up to go to all off mine too. So I have been to a lot of them, some much better than others. But none have been that bad. I don't drink enough to talk about, so not that costly to sit and watch other get plastered. And see some you knew where never going to be much have a brain after all and used it. As well as the big shots that are not so big anymore.
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2021 at 7:32pm
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Our class was supposed to have a get together in September but it has been postponed due to covid. I have been to all of mine and enjoyed them. Our class was small, 80 people and most of us have remained friends through the years, sadly quite a few have passed on. Some of the gals still look fine, time has not been kind to some of the others. Wife has not been to any of hers. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: JTOOL
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2021 at 8:02pm
| @Hubert (GA)engine7; Small is definitely a relative term. My graduating class had 28 in it. And we're the 2nd largest district in the county. Some of the small consolidated country schools only average 8-15 per graduating class. It was a little bit of culture shock when I went to college and would talk to city people that said they had 3000 students in the school they went to. When I replied that that was more than twice the number of people in my hometown, the look on their face kind of told me that they were starting to hear "Dueling Banjo's" in their head. LOL. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2021 at 8:13pm
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my High School had 3700 students in 3 grades... Graduated with over 1200 kids.. Didnt know 1000 of them.. Moved 500 miles and have not heard or seen anyone in 50 years.
Son went to a grade school here that was 80 kids spread across grades 1- 8. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2021 at 8:42pm
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Went to our 10 year reunion and didn't have a very good time so skipped several. Last one a few years ago was our 40th. Had a great time. Enjoyed seeing how fat some of the gals got who thought their stuff didn't stink back in the day. We had only one high school in the county and had 120 in our graduation class. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2021 at 12:57am
| My 50th will be in 2023. I love seeing all the hot cheerleaders with azzez fatter than a pen fed steer and the little mousy ones are good looking now and cuter than before.. We have lost a lot of our class had 6 or 7 missing by our 5 year reunion. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2021 at 2:25am
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I suffered through our 15th. My kissin cousin made me take her. Haven't been to one since and our 55th is coming up next year. Wife never went to even one of hers. The guys and gals I want to see are the ones I do every once in a while. We only had 366 in our class. Only one I would have like to go to was the 35th. I could have stuck it to all those snob noses....I was retired and none of them were. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2021 at 5:03pm
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I am sitting here reading this and thinking to myself damn you guys are old .Then realized it's 45 years for me . I just as soon spend all the time I can with my grandkids . And every once in a while listen to Alan Jackson's song The Older I Get . ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: fleeter allis fan
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2021 at 9:28pm
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My Class of '76 has had regular reunions every five years. Sadly, our 45th could not be held due to Covid this year. I have always enjoyed attending and have also helped with organizing. There were only 44 students in my graduating class, so it is not an enormous job. In our case, it seems that those who got good marks, or were involved in sports or clubs and enjoyed their high school years, usually attend. Those who didn't do so well or didn't have a particularly good high school experience for some reason, are usually not interested. I made some life-long friends in high school and it is always great to renew old friendships. We have lost at least four classmates so far. The last time I saw any of them was at a class reunion. ------------- I'm a man...and I can change...if I have to... I guess. '44 B, '46 WF, '49 G, 810GT, 916H, 620 |
Posted By: ford8nwd
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2021 at 7:12am
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Graduated 70 years ago and have never attended even one, I imagine the ranks are pretty well thinned out by now. should have been 71, but I repeated first grade due to the great depression. |
Posted By: Bob-Maine
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2021 at 7:40am
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Dusty, you pretty much covered me also. 60th was to be last year but covid came. We were going to do it this year but it didn't happen. We usually have about 16 out of a class of 26 show up. Not bad for a bunch of almost 80 year olds. I have enjoyed those I could make, and keep in touch with a few via e-mail. Bob@allisdowneast ------------- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure. |