I graduated 59 years ago. The average age of the graduates being 18, means most of our classmates are 77 years old this year. That's really getting old!!! I can remember when I thought 60 was very, very old....
I can't even do many things I could do at age 69. I can still walk 30 minutes early every morning and stay up past 10 pm at night, altho I do wake up around 5:30 a.m. every morning - ready to get up and get going.
I still have good vision and I can hear well. I really count myself lucky when I see the condition some of my classmates are in. And I still have my husband, who is also in good health.
Today we talked about our classmates, and I asked Jim if would mind if I invited my classmates to our home on the afternoon of Homecoming, after the parade, for dinner and then all go to the football game as a group.
He agreed that this would be a nice thing to do. I got out my list of classmates, marked off a few more who are deceased (now 23), and made notes of those unable to travel, etc. and my list kept getting shorter and shorter. It makes me sad that so many will be not be physically able to come to our gathering. We MUST have a reunion this year. Probably not everybody feels the same as I do about keeping in touch and could care less about getting together. I'm going to have to come up with some novel ideas to create an interest in getting them together. We don't need a country club dinner with a bar, or a dance band, or a cruise, or big barbecue, etc. - just a simple hamburger cookout and some good, sweet iced tea. And maybe a good pound cake for dessert. It all sounds so simple and I intend to make this work. Check my Blog in October and see if we had a reunion on Sept. 30!!!
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