Good for you Greg! Irish mafia, I never bullied anyone, in fact my group got along with everyone. We played football so we could hit the beer parties with the jocks,we smoked weed with the stoners, some were in choir and band so we hung with the geeks as well.

I'm sorry that some of you have bitter memories of high school and your classmates.
Saturday's Marshall High School Class of 1975 reunion was everything I hoped it would be. We had about 25 graduates of our class of about 75. Rain stopped just in time for golf at 11 a.m. in Watertown. I had just four hours that evening before Cheryl and I had to leave because she had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to work Sunday, but I made the most of them, trying to at least say hello to everyone. Two of my best friends from high school who rarely if ever came to the reunion came and sat at our table. That was special. We went from table to table to stand and introduce ourselves, but I remembered everyone (except for spouses). I told them how much I love our reunions and all of my classmates and how I appreciated them coming. I don't think even those who felt like outcasts or were picked on in high school feel that way anymore.
Too soon, it was time to go. I hugged everyone goodbye. It made for four hours I'll always cherish after four memorable years of high school.
Greg Peck

Ernie/ Milton Class of 1978 reunions are rumored to be pitiful. You think a golf outing is an original idea? Do you have any idea how many people don't golf? It was the usual event designed for a handful of classmates who regularly socialize with each other. Try coming up with a class reunion that everyone can enjoy, maybe have SOMEONE ELSE plan the reunions from now on, yours are sorely lacking.

Just remember... high school wasn't a good time for some people. If you had a good time, you were either the nice person who treated everyone well or you were a popular kid who people looked to. You also might have been the person who made life a living hell for 4 years by ignoring, bullying or harassing the kids who were awkward and socially outcast. Think about that when you think comments are bitter. Reunions are the perfect time to apologize to the people you bullied, name-called or mistreated...sadly, that rarely happens. Think about that. You may not remember saying or doing something to someone, but it hurts those people all the same no matter how much time goes by.

Wow, some bitter comments here. I enjoy them. Over the years the cliques have disappeared (or the people who tried to preserve them anyway) and they are informal and relaxing. A lot of laughs and a few tears over lost classmates, lost parents and children. Facebook now keeps me connected with many of them and we are looking forward to next years event.

I'll go if I ever become famous, to lord it over those who made my life heck through school. Otherwise, I'd rather imagine the worst about them.

There are some funny and interesting comments here. Good job. Personally, after my 20th I realized that I haven't known these people for longer that I knew them. lol
Frogger, forget the people who think they are too good for you. They are the ones who can’t adjust. JMO

High School was three years of existing. People that were my friends in Jr. High suddenly weren't my friends because of cliques and silly social b.s. Why should I go out of my way now to hang out with a bunch of people who wanted nothing to do with me then?

Every 5 years I receive my invite to our class reunion and every 5 years it goes straight in the trash....unopened.

The fifth it's who got married. The 10th it's sharing the kids photos. The 20th it's who's made it big. The 40th it's who died. That's when I stopped going.

I have skipped them all too. I feel the same as SuzQue.

I've skipped them all ..
If we were true friends
in school, then we stayed
friends for a lifetime.
Why go to a reunion to
see others who have never
kept in contact?

twerp13, How cool! Another "8" Miltonite. 1978 was a great year and I'm sure 1988 ten later was too! Glad to know you.

I noticed at the 20 th high school reunion the clicks were still in force. Still seemed to good to talk to the nobodies like me!! I had fun and talked to everybody who would talk to me.
They (sorry most)were still in their own little (girls mostly)clicks and some had the same hair from long ago. Some seemed very phony if they did speak to you.

jck- I also didn't go to 5 or 10 but did 15 and 20. I didn't prefer to go to a reunion at the place where little kids play games. I don't remember the name of it. The 15 year was at a bar- COME ON. I went anyway and was about the last to leave !) the 20 was a a nicer place but nobody would dance. To cool to dance????

Irish- were you at my 20 !)

It is fun to see those popular people BALD, gray, and wrinkled and I am not.
I may be bitter as well and not friendly but you weren't my friend in school and you surely wont speak to me now so I will not "act" nice or pretend like you .

I joked with one guy about having a crush on him and he was a butt about his responce. Glad you didn't like me then and don't care to like YOU now jerk face!! WOW it was amazing!

I found a guy who was nice in school (of of us nobodies) had a crush on me and thought in school he did. He told me he did at the party. I was very flattered to hear this. He is married to a beautiful lady and has great kids. Will go to the next one to see people like "us" again. Snobs please stay home or say hello if it wont hurt you.

Just had my 30th - I couldn't believe we did not have a 25th. Went to the 5-10-20. This was better than the others - more casual, less expensive, and some people have finally gotten over themselves. But some of the people I had hoped to see again, after seeing them at the 20th, did not come, which was a disappointment. We've lost quite a few over the years, also, even though we are only 48, and we make sure we list the names so they are not forgotten.

I went to my 20th only for the family picnic. The dinner for 2 at the country club was too expensive, and my hubby and I don't golf, so that outting was out. Hope the next one is a bit cheaper and more family involved.
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I did get to talk with some people I had not seen since graduation, and several of the clique people actually came around and talked fairly decently, not at all like highschool (they did eventually all grow up :) )
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Ernie I too am a forever MHS REDMAN ! class of 1988

My earliest recollection of the "socialization" bragged about by fans of public education is of learning abruptly that I was short, fat, & uncoordinated. Over the next 11 years, the message remained unchanged--just slightly more subtle. The two bright spots in my twelve-year "sentence" were meeting my wife & discovering that my intellectual abilities far surpassed those of my tormentors. I've been out of high school 39 years, haven't attended a single reunion, & can't imagine any circumstances that would lead me to in the future!

I dreaded most of the days I had to see the class of 1973 in school. I've never been to a reunion and have no intention of going to a future one.

Irish_Mofia78, It gets better every five years. I felt the same as you at my 10 year reunion mark. But after that, Each reunion gets more friendlier and fun. Don't give up.

I hated my 10 year. It was like high school never ended. The Jocks hovered around the bar trading business cards, a lot of the women talked and gossiped about each other but got syrupy and squealed "OMIGOD HIIIIII!" at people they never talked to 10 years ago. The popular/overachiever kids bragged about their doctorates, passing the bar, their new homes and cars or about their seven-digit salaries and their genius children and about how they are on waiting lists for posh schools or how their toddlers were being prepped for college straight from the womb... and I sat with the three other people like me who showed up and felt alienated and unwelcome. I didn't have a name tag waiting for me when I entered like the other people did and when I got it it was misspelled. I had some laughs and a few drinks and left virtually unnoticed and decided then and there that high school was dead to me and I would not go to another reunion. I won't relive that over and over. No thanks.

I know all of that sounded bitter... but I really didn't like school from about 6th grade on... and all the reunion did was show me that people rarely change and that you can't live in the past.

I have attended and Planned my class reunion many times. I enjoy the fun and friendship of seeing old classmates. Milton REDMAN class of 1978 rocks!

I skipped the 5 and 10 year reunions because it just hadn't been long enough since I'd graduated and I still had contact with many friends. However I started going with the 15 year reunion and have attended every one since with the exception of 2008 40 year reunion which I missed due to health reasons. I'm looking forward to the next one in 2013 though it seems fewer people attend with each consecutive one.