I have never been to a High School or any other reunion and never will be.

If I wanted to know those people I would have kept in touch with them.

Besides, I imagine around 90% of my High School class is dead or in prison.

Class of ‘73 here and have never attended my class reunion in what will be 50 years soon. I enjoyed high school for the most part, but a reunion just never interested me. In fact I sent a note informing them they should stop wasting their postage informing me of upcoming reunions. I have had to go to a couple of my wife’s reunions she likes that kind of thing……I was bored outa my mind.

Went to my HS 30 year reunion in 2001. The 50th was delayed until the fall of 2022, I didn’t attend.

In contact albeit irregular with maybe four classmates. Majority of them today like back then, I have nothing in common with.

Someone called my Mom's house looking for me for the 5 year reunion. She said "He doesn't live at home anymore and he is in the phone book".

Have never heard anything since. Not on any of the social media sites. And like Flash-LB said "If I wanted to know those people I would have kept in touch with them".

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Originally posted by Southern Rebel:
I have only attended one - the fifty year reunion. Our class only had 29 members, but 10 of them went to college. That is a pretty high percentage for a rural school in Tennessee.

I'm feeling not quite so rural anymore now. My class had a little under 50 in 1992. We've had three reunions, one just a couple (five?) years after graduation and one after 20 which were rather short meetings at restaurant, and 30 last year. That one was pretty cool, though only 18 of us attended; one of the class became a teacher at our old school and gave us a tour, explaining all the changes. It has become pretty high-tech, even by national standards; electronic boards in every classroom, WiFi, remote teaching capabilities installed during COVID, the kids bring just a tablet rather than a bag of books, etc.

On the flip side, classes seem to have become rather interchangeable, more rigid curricula, any teacher in theory able to access any other's materials and hold the same lessons, a lack of unique characters which made school so memorable for us. Though not always for the better; there was one weird guy best known back then for blowing up a coffee maker while trying to warm some soup in it. Only at that reunion I heard that he had been shuffled from school to school for stalking female students; one classmate remembered how he had even shown up at her summer job.

There's one definite positive effect of the event. Previously I used to have the kind of annoying dreams where you're back in school though you know you are really long done with it. Allegedly that's when you're dissatisfied with your job situation (probably because your subconsciousness says you would do better if you had paid more attention back then); likely true in my case because I'm looking for a change. However, I talked to a classmate who's super successful - professor of oncology, runs two affiliated hospitals in Switzerland - and he said he's having the same dreams. Ever since, they're gone; instead I'm having slightly erotic dreams about the girls I was already hot for in school, which I prefer by far.

There are about 1,500 of us in our HS graduation class. I do not know most of them. I did not go to our 10th, 20th and 30th HS reunion. It is our 35th this year. Have not heard anything as of yet. And No. I am not going, just like in the past.

I once went to a class reunion as an escort. I sat at the table and played my role. As an outsider, it was depressing to listen to the various conversations. My date lied about who I was. I politely acted the part. I determined then I’d never go to one of my own. I’ll go to Mrs. DF’s if she wants. I doubt I’ll need to. If by chance I’m one of the last surviving…..maybe.

Class of '54 here, NYC bedroom community type suburb. I never went to a reunion; honestly, I don't even know whether there were any.

After graduation, I had exactly one encounter with anybody who went to the same high school. Chance encounter, while I was working in the San Juan PR area; it turned out that this guy was the son of one of the VP's of the large international corporation that I was working for at the time. He and I were same class, we were both in the band, but we were more acquaintances than real friends.

My wife, on the other hand, went to HS in a small Ohio town. She has been to a few reunions, timing her visits to the sons & grandkids who live in that area to coincide with the reunions.

Neither of us have ever been to one of our college reunions, if they even had any.

I wouldn't to to a H.S. reunion if it was held at my house.

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Originally posted by bendable:
I've never been to any of them...

Same here.

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Originally posted by TomV:
Someone called my Mom's house looking for me for the 5 year reunion. She said "He doesn't live at home anymore and he is in the phone book".

Have never heard anything since. Not on any of the social media sites. And like Flash-LB said "If I wanted to know those people I would have kept in touch with them".

That's the other side of it for me.
I haven't been on FB in probably 3 years & have never logged into any of the others. So, I'd never know about it, if that was the only route they communicate on it.
They'd have to find me to invite me, or I'd have to get it by word of mouth from the 1 other person I've kept up with from my HS class.

Instead I prefer to watch this funny film;

Nope. Class started with 800. 500 graduated. I’m in some kind of contact with my closest friends from back then. No desire to make small talk with a bunch of people who are basically strangers. If we didn’t interact in the four years we were forced to be in the same place and haven’t made a connect in the 30 years since we went our separate ways I don’t think it’s gonna happen. A quick google search usually covers the “I wonder whatever happened to…” curiosity.

Class of 1979, about 90 students. I went to the 10th, the 20th, and a couple others.

At the 10th, it seemed nobody had changed too much, while a very few of us (me included) had changed enormously on their own, or had life-changing experiences forced upon them.

At the 20th, I looked around and didn't recognize anybody to start with.

The last one I went to was an ache-and-pain measuring contest, with the early-dying being clear winners.

The earlier reunions were fairly well organized with a reserved room, band, etc; the later ones are all just "let's get together at this bar on this night". What fun... not.

I know more people from Bonnie's class of "58" because we see them six times a year we we lunch together.

Class of 1974 ... went to my 10th, that was fun. My 20th was a waste of my time. (reasons do not matter).

Since then, not interested in attending though I have stayed in touch with a half dozen classmates that I started kindergarten with through high school.

Class of 74 classmates are now talking about a reunion. At this point, everyone am interested connected with ... I am already doing so, a reunion does not improved upon that.

I went to my 30th High school reunion back in 2016 and it wasn't bad. I did not go to any of the ones before so I was curious.
40th is coming in a few years but I probably won't go. I was kinder and gentler back in 2016 and would offend or piss off most now. I see one person from the class of 1986 and he's my cousin.

Class of 1969, graduating class of about 500. I've been to all mine, mostly on Friday night classmates only and have always enjoyed myself.

I organize and produce my high school reunions. Our class of 72 people appreciate and participate, but only about 40. We create an atmosphere of treasuring the 1975-1979 years and sharing in lives lived well. We don’t do this frequently but we do reconnect every five to ten years.

No I don't do HS reunions. Rural area class of '62 had 19 students with 19 grads.

I think myself and all the boys of the class were drafted in the 60's. All of the class moved out the area, I really have no desire to meet with any of them today. The people I was really friendly with are all dead. It's been 60 years.

I'll go to the 75th if I their are any of us left